by John Flawith | Sep 6, 2025 | Folia Agapis
As a bit of a diversion from pouring concrete and thinking about our new house, we took a week away to chill out a bit. A week in the Amari valley – a Rough Guide “hidden gem”, is an undiscovered “away from it all” location which we love. Peaceful and...
by John Flawith | Aug 10, 2025 | Blog, Folia Agapis
The inspector finally visited! The first one turned down the opportunity, and the second didn’t have a car! Had to brought out by our engineer. But he came, he saw, he concurred! Here is the plot, ready for the basement foundation to be poured The...
by John Flawith | Jul 26, 2025 | Blog, Folia Agapis
We have at last come upon a great builder, Theo, who has cheerfully accepted our manifold requirements and eccentricities, is keen to get started, has promised us a turn key project with no cost overruns, at a price we can just about afford. New office in Almyrida...
by John Flawith | May 15, 2025 | Folia Agapis
The design of the house is completed. After what for Greece is quick, we have our building permit despite the change in construction from prefabricated wood to concrete. We’d asked Eirini, our long-suffering architect/engineer, to design the house for us. She talked...
by John Flawith | Apr 30, 2024 | Folia Agapis, Uncategorized
Back in February 2024 we had abandoned our search for a house in Rethymnon, having got quite far with a multi storey place on the edge of a holiday development outside the city up in the hills. We had stretched our criteria – looking at Plakoti, a house on a...
by John Flawith | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog, Places
Well, it started out as ten pictures of Crete, but I couldn’t choose between them! Chania Let’s start in Chania. Nothing like a sunny afternoon relaxing in one of the tavernas. Here we are amongst the blue chairs of the Amphora taverna, on the old...
