Meraki Hills: secluded Corfu retreat

  • No clear mind

    No Clear Mind, formed a decade ago in Chania, is one of our favourite music bands. Very underrated, barely known outside of Greece, though moving, deep, calm. After short visit in Corfu, we are missing spring. Continue reading

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  • ελιά | #week 17

    ελιά | #week 17

    The construction of the house begins with the destruction of an olive tree that is more than a century old.It is so sad that let the pictures speak. Continue reading

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  • Earthworks | #week 16

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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!

    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

  • Toteninsel

    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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