HYDRA MEET-UP 2009 REPORT

[jarkko]

Paula, thanks for the sunshine - we would have use for it here (only 8 C and raining here in Finland, and similar weather going to continue over the midsummer festival...). I wish we had not left Hydra!
Jarkko

[lizzytysh]

Thanks for clarifying, Laura. It made sense... she'd met you and most of the others; she doesn't like to be photographed, so it made sense she'd want to take the photo; she's from Poland and could easily have decided to live in Italy for awhile; and it sure made sense she'd want to return to Hydra. Glad to hear that your Anna is lovely, too .

Yes, the contrast in the photo of Christoph is strikingly wonderful. With a nick like Fawlty Towers, I'm guessing his sense of humour is wonderful, too .

You can have some of Florida's sunshine for back-up, Jarkko ... but you've gotta take some of the rain with it


~ Lizzy

[tomsakic]

Anna from Poland is alive & kicking - we just had ice coffee two days ago, here in Krakow, thinking of all the Cohenites at beaches of Hydra;)

[lizzytysh]

Oh, that's wonderful, good news, Tom. Thanks.
Please tell her I said "Hi" when you speak with her, again.

[friscogrl]

Anne, great photos! Definitely looking forward to more! Hope you are having a great vacation!

Marsha

[linmag]

Welcome back to the frozen north, Jarkko . We have 16 degrees C in Gloucester today, and rain. We left Hydra just after lunch on Monday and arrived back in Gloucester at about 4 am the following morning. Having staggered into work during the day we then went to a folk gig in the bar of our local theatre in the evening. Looking around at the rest of the audience in typical warm english summer clothing, I realised that John and I had made the journey back to Gloucester in body only - our brains were obviously still on a beach somewhere on Hydra. I was in cut-off trousers and a t-shirt and John in shorts and a hawaiian shirt!

I have been consoling myself today looking through some of the photos from our too short stay on Hydra this time. I have uploaded a few of them below, pictures of Hydra rather than people, as I know that there will be lots of those

[anneporter]

Yes, the contrast in the photo of Christoph is strikingly wonderful. With a nick like Fawlty Towers, I'm guessing his sense of humour is wonderful, too .


~ Lizzy

Oops! I should have proof-read my message--it's the restaurant, not Christoph , that was dubbed Fawlty Towers.

Laura, I don't take photos of myself, but I do have a couple of you, for example:

[anneporter]

I just came across this one and couldn't resist posting it:
Boys, you know who you are!

[Laura]

Oh, Anne, you are a teaser! Are you going to post your photos someplace on a webpage for us to enjoy them all?

The running irish boys photo is so much fun! You could use it as a poster for a comic movie. (what did you do to set them running like this, I wonder?)
And I like the photo of me too; just don't ask me what I was thinking there.

Laura

[anneporter]

Laura,
We didn't set the Irish boys running-- we set them dancing!!!

[anneporter]

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes,
We are sitting here at Porto Fino's but it seems your boat has sailed! So sorry we missed your boat.

A bientot, Judy and Ella! See you on Hydra in 2009!

Such a pleasure to meet you, and look into those gorgeous eyes!
Hope to meet again!

Ann Marie Lane

Hi,
I was so sorry to miss you this morning. It was wonderful to meet you, and I hope we will
be together again at some Cohen event...hopefully, sooner rather than later!

Take care,

Kathy

[lizzytysh]

Oh, Linda, yours are exceptionally beautiful, too! And you're melting my heart with the cats one . I'm so happy to see them so healthy, too. I hope yours also end up posted somewhere, for us to enjoy them all, as Laura has suggested for Anne's. Anne... your use of colour/B&W is so effective. You make a great portrait photographer. A very lovely one of Laura. Great dancing photo of the boys, too. I wondered, as well, why they were running... and at the same time, in opposite directions? As in, how did you accomplish that!?! Big guys... arachnophobia, after all ?

Haha. Fawlty Towers for the restaurant .

Just tried to post this and found the gorgeous photo of Judy waiting and the lovely messages I know she will be so happy to read! Anne... you're incredible with a camera! They remind me of your haikus.

I'm also looking forward to Eija's getting posted here or somewhere! She also takes such beautiful photos! I'm hoping, too, that she [or someone] got a photo of you when you weren't looking, Anne .

Such a great year for Hydra photos. Those of us who couldn't make it are especially blessed by them... well, okay, the rest of you are, too, for the memories they've captured .


~ Lizzy

[jarkko]

We will get a quite large selection of Eija's Hydra photos up later today on a separate Gallery page. Will post the link here when ready.
Meanwhile, here I'm testing the wireless network in the Hydra harbour. Roloi has nowadays a free public WiFi for its clients, and there is another network on the other side (at the Dolphins).
No networks were available at this spot a bit far from the tavern area. - There is still an Internet Cafe, so no need to carry a laptop (30 min = 3 eur, 60 min=5 eur).

[lizzytysh]

Technology meets Hydra . You look so intent, Jarkko .

Looking forward to seeing Eija's photos .

[linmag]

The cat one was specially for you, Lizzie. Sue and I thought about you and your waifs and strays of four years ago every time we saw a cat, so you can imagine you were on our minds quite a lot