Every weekend I’ll be scouting the world for the quintessential town or village that has preserved its timeless lifestyle despite the advance of urban sprawl elsewhere. Not only it will balance this otherwise idea-charged blog, but will also provide a great opportunity to explore the anti-thesis of the modern city.
Courtesy nbaddour @ PlanetEye
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There are no cars in the island of Hydra, in Greece. There are lots of tourists though.
Do you have a good photo of Hydra? Maybe I can feature it next week. Even Manarola is mostly a tourist location, but for the purpose of getting this idea rolling I figured the image would convey the objective. The role of these villages as the anti-thesis to all the large cities that are usually the subject of this blog gives me an interesting tension to explore why everyone wants to leave the country to live on a big city yet wishes to retire to one of these villages…