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PHOTOGRAPHIC & LITERARY WORKSHOP ON THE ISLAND OF HYDRA IN THE GREEK ISLES

‘…in the morning and evening the harbour seems to slip and slide in a moving green-gold mesh of water reflections. All bare and innocent the island lies under the sun or faintly, distractingly luminous under the moon. The world smells of sea salt, herbs, springing flowers. Something is imminent…’ – Charmian Clift

Join Trisha on the island of Hydra for a week of photography, literature, walking, swimming and soaking up the atmosphere of this stunning island. Contact Trisha for proposed dates or get together your own private group.

Hydra is one of the Aegean islands lying off the northeast coast of the Peloponnese, it has a population of 2000 and is only 38 miles from the port of Piraeus in Athens connected by daily hydrofoils.Sharpen your photographic skills with projects each day along with plenty of time to enjoy the unhurried pace of island life. With its architectural preservation order and ban on motor vehicles, Hydra has retained the charm from its golden age which began in the Napoleonic wars when the island had one of the strongest merchants navies in the Mediterranean. Its rugged beauty attracted artists and writers including Australians Charmian Clift and George Johnston, two of Australia’s greatest writers who left London’s Fleet Street in 1954 and there will be walks to the home where they lived, past Leonard Cohen’s home, up to the monastery Tim Winton wrote of in The Riders and past the ruins of Greece’s famed artist Nikos Hadji-Kyriakou Ghika’s home where Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote Mani in 1958 and where he entertained Kazantzakis, author of Zorba the Greek, the poet Seferis (Nobel laureate 1963) and philhellene Henry Miller, author of Colossus of Maroussi. For me, writers paint the landscape – I see it through their words – those jagged dry stone walls tumbling down the hills are more palpable through the poetry of these writers words.

There is much to photograph and enjoy….

…walks through fragrant thyme and sage to ancient monasteries…

…the brilliant blue shutters and the blue of the chairs nestled around tables in cobbled

courtyards and tavernas echo the blue of the summer skies…

…whitewashed cubist houses and the lambent blue sea…

…a tumble of silver olive trees and flowering almond trees…

…the clip clop of the donkeys hooves on the cobbled streets mingle with the church bells…

…a photographers paradise of sun and rocks and sea.

Accommodation is in a sea captains mansion, The Miranda, which has been declared a building of National Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, and is considered an especially fine example of Hydriot architecture. It has a fine collection of 18th and 19th century furniture and a fine art collection. Traditional Greek breakfasts are enjoyed outside in the courtyard. It has a wonderful friendly atmosphere and my favourite Hotel on Hydra.

Contact Trisha Dixon Burkitt via the form below

Comments or questions are welcome.

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