What’s more, the island’s small size, coupled with droves of tourists in high season, means Hydra is expensive. There are only so many places to stay. It is well known that Leonard Cohen ...

The story of Leonard Cohen's romance with Marianne ... The couple meet on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Cohen had fled from a wet, grey London to be a 'closet optimist'.

Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen lived here for a time—and was inspired to compose his beloved song “Bird on the Wire” after observing just that here on Hydra. Today visitors only have to ...

Cohen and Ihlen’s relationship was also previously covered in a 2019 documentary, “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love,” directed by their onetime Hydra companion Nick Broomfield. Another ...

In 1966 a Canadian fellow uni student of mine gave me a copy of a poetic, mysterious and sexy novel called Beautiful Losers by one Leonard Cohen. I was so entranced that next year I bought the ...

Other items auctioned date from the time the songwriter spent in Greece, including a key to Cohen’s home on the island Hydra ... in the back of my mind. Leonard Cohen will always be there ...

"Laugh and cry and cry and laugh" as you take in the beautiful and troubled 1960s romance of poet and musician Leonard Cohen and his greatest ... Greek island of Hydra, when Leonard was a ...