Galatas and the lemon forest, across the strait

Galatas is not on Poros but on the Peloponnese, directly across the strait, five minutes away on the little boats that cross all day and half the night. It is a working mainland village with a long waterfront of cafes and ouzeries looking back at the whole of Poros town. Behind it, on the slopes towards the mountains, lies Lemonodasos, the Lemon Forest: tens of thousands of lemon and orange trees on terraces watered by mountain streams, with a path up through them that smells of blossom in spring.