Our tour officially over in Greece, we took the Metro to the airport. For some reason, we ended up with business class tickets and we flew out to Istanbul from Athens. Our Turkey trip was to start the next day.

Ready to leave Hydra

Poor donkeys

Group picture prior to leaving Hydra. I had either just finished my book here, or was about to finish it

We had breakfast and strolled the waterfront afterwards. Delivery boats were pulling in with various containers, and donkeys were loaded to carry them all around. The poor animals seemed so miserable.

Leaving the island on hydrofoil again, we boated for almost 2 hours. We ended up at Port of Piraeus. From there, it was back to Athens to see the Acropolis. We saw the rock of Saint Paul, where he preached about Jesus, overlooking the Ancient Agora.

Theater of Herodes Atticus	Propylaea, the building at the entrace to the Acropolis	Parthenon	Erechteion	Parthenon
Parthenon	Parthenon	Parthenon	View from the top of the Acropolis	Areopagus Hill. This is where St. Paul preached about Jesus
View of the Ancient Agora	Acropolis

We had a final group dinner in the Plaka, outdoors. We took lots of pictures and said out farewells to everyone.

We woke up late on our free day and had a late breakfast. We then took a 2.5 hour hike, up the hill, to the other side of the island. We came across a waste disposal area.

Hydra

Hydra along our walk on the other side

Hydra along our walk on the other side

Hydra

Really liked the water colors

On the way back we had some amazing smoothies at a nice restaurant, and had wonderful views of the island and water from above.

Hotel courtyard

Reliving some amusing earlier trip memories with the group

Dinner in Hydra

In the evening, we had group happy hour at the hotel. We chatted and hung out with our tour group mates. Later on we stepped out for dinner and turned in for the night.