Hotel Poseidonion

“Oh, that’s very expensive”, I said when I called to get a room at the Hotel Poseidonion. “We are not tourists, we live on Hydra, that’s just next door.” Probably there wasn’t a tourist price but at least I’d given it a try. My wife and I had talked about staying at the famous hotel and when we heard it was soon going to be modernized, we decided to go there before it all was changed. “We are not tourists, we are travelers”, I said using a favorite quote from Paul Bowles. The writer John Fowles stayed in this hotel in 1950 when he wrote “The Magus”, all inspired by Spetses and his job at the boarding school. “OK, maybe this will be better for you”, the woman at the hotel said, giving me a lower price. I told my young son that when he grows up he will remember his stay at Hotel Poseidonion, but now he’s more excited over how my bargaining saved us twenty Euros.

 

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