Visiting Hydra: Leonard Cohen’s Bohemian Idyll

A pilgrimage to the idyllic Greek island where the singer once lived and loved

Hydra town

In the early afternoon we reached Hydra. That day, as we stepped from the ferry that deposited us on the harbour front, it was possible to believe we had stepped into a paradise. The great swathe of blue sky above us was high and fine, and the light that…