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Earthworks | #week 16
Finally, here we go. Spiros marked out with tape the place where Dmitris would start digging. Our concrete workers – Leonidas and Adonis – agreed on the order of work. The hill is ‘difficult’, both for earthworks and concrete. This will take whole spring and the most of summer, probably. A verdict has been passed Continue reading
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A cliff in front, a stream behind
μπρός γκρεμός και πίσω ρέμα. We became familiar with this Greek saying quite some time ago, laughing that our plot of land actually has a rhea and a cliff. The rema is dry, the cliff has been stabilized, but we are being hit harder and harder by the weaknesses of building in Greece. We are Continue reading
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Island
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, 135Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready Continue reading
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The Hill | #week 12
After the Christmas break, the sixth and final layer of gabions was laid. A huge job, a huge pile of stones, a hill changed forever. Among the thoughts on our minds is whether to put a fence on top of the hill. That was the plan, to give our house and its guests privacy, but Continue reading
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Operation Broom
As reported by the Enimerosi portal, a special operation took place in South Corfu under the command of the new mayor of South Corfu, with the support of neighbouring districts and regional government of Ionian Islands.The brave authorities saved the population from an inevitable ecological disaster, plague and death in agony. Thousands of tonnes of Continue reading
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The stoned hill | #week 9
Almost all minecraft work is done! Just before end of 2023. We are still not sure, how to arrange entrance gate, fencing from the top, but what is most important: now the time has come to dig the pit for the house. Continue reading
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Hydroplanes coming to Corfu!
Armoured cars sail the skyThey’re pink at dawnIf I lived forever you just wouldn’t be so beautifulAs the sun when it shines all over the world As reported by Enimerosi, hydroplane flights between Corfu and Paxos and the Diapontia islands will start from spring 2024.Admittedly, the company Hellenic Seaplanes, as well as the media, had Continue reading
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Toteninsel
The Island of the Dead is the best-known painting by Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin. An inspiration to many, this bleak painting was created in five versions. According to Nabokov, a reproduction of it hung in every German home. Many researchers say, the inspiration for the Isle of the Dead was our lovely Pontikonissi, which every Continue reading
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Retaining wall in progress | #week 7
Dmitris the Excavator and his team started to erect the reinforcement structure. After two weeks, more than 100 tonnes of stone had already been laid in the gabions. By hand, stone by stone. The work was unfortunately interrupted by rains every few days, but it looks like the risk of the road falling on our Continue reading
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Architecture – decisions taken a year ago.
What we have learnt, Corfu’s traditional houses facades are mostly of plaster, less often of stone. The typical characteristics include arched arcades, stone window frames, shutters, simple windowless roofs and walls in one of literally several colors – neither white nor blue being one of them. The most common palettes are yellows, pinks, ochres and Continue reading
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Meraki Hills: secluded Corfu retreat 