June 9th Five Star Greece villa tour continued A dawn start to get some good photography done at Corfu CH, which is really one of the top villas on Corfu now, and then non -stop, frantic rushing from house to house, sending pictures, answering clients and forgetting mobiles, cameras and car keys all over the … Read More
June 8th Corfu High life It doesn’t get much better than this – magnificent villas in Corfu on the sea, two of which compete for the crown in this area – Corfu CH is an oasis of Aman-style serenity in the happy-go-lucky muddle of Greece. The colour of the pool matches the blue of the sea … Read More
June 7th The island hopper plane jumps from Crete, to Zakynthos, to Kephalonia, to Preveza, to Corfu. The stewardess just has time to explain about seatbelts before it is time to land each time. A great day out for 40 euros! The first house to be visited was Corfu AT which sits grandly above … Read More
June 5th Ithaca I woke up this morning to a big grey cloud that burst as I was having bread and honey for breakfast on the veranda – the rain banged on the cane pergola and a thunderclap with lightening flash made us all jump and shriek. The smell of hot earth and herbs … Read More
June 3rd Architects in 19th century Berlin had an uphill struggle in their aspiration to recreate ancient Athens on the Spree. Ernst Ziller, brought from Germany to the Court of Athens by George 1st of Greece in 1860 experienced the ecstasy of sun-starved northeners exposed to the sunshine of Attica for the first time, and … Read More
June 2nd As children, the summer would start with a couple of nights at the Grande Bretagne in Athens, en route for our house on Ithaca (see Villa Skinos in our portfolio). It was a rather Eloise-like existence as the owner was a friend of our father, so it was a little bit like home … Read More
June 1st The Five Star Greece villa inspection tour continued; The wind finally got up last night and the heatwave broke – luckily, as there were no real highlights of the day, apart from a hotel villa that shall remain nameless, that was so unbelievably over-priced that my ears nearly fell off when I heard what it … Read More
May 31st They had to prise me out of my room at Perivolas like a limpet, but this is after all a Five Star Greece villa inspection trip, designed to bring you the best rental villas in Greece, and Paros was our next stop. If Santorini belongs to the sky, Paros is definitely back to earth. … Read More
30th May Santorini continued; Morning visit to a house that I saw years ago and loved, but was in a dilapidated state – the Astra Hotel has now taken it on and refurbished it for guests wanting total privacy and what must be the only Caldera view on Santorini where no other house is visible. … Read More
May 27th How to do Mykonos and Santorini Five Star Greece style.. Mykonos off-season is a delight – a fully functioning playground all to yourself. Choose your beach, wonder which vast stretch of empty sand is the perfect one for you, swim in the surprisingly warm translucent water, lie down in the sun for a … Read More
