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MINIMUM STAY 1 WEEK - NO LAST MINTUTE BOOKINGS
Special, very special. Original old landhouses, equipped with furniture and details out of old times, restaurated, you can TRY hard to find something like this. The village of Filippou, hidden in the hills in front of the big area of White Mountains, 3 KM above Vrisses small town and 10 KM to the long, sandy beach of Georgioupolis, landscape, only nature around and of course large olive grounds. Some old, different types of houses, for 4 up to 6 guests each, most of them with a wild garden, trees, places, some hidden, to sit outside all night if you want. Stones + wood, this is the material you find in the houses, don’t care or
Wonder to sleep in a bed, which has been formerly a loom, or if your kids sleep on a gallery beside the wine barrels, if the door of the bathroom – in some houses outside like in old times – has been long ago sure the
Door of a small church. Anyway, it's impossible to describe it exactly, anyway only a less people will do such holidays with quietness in the nature. Villages in the area around, in front of White Mountains, at Cap Drapanon, where you often can see people, doing old handicrafts, can see how they work, can visit them. If you don’t hesitate, and for holidays in winter possible too, because the houses have a heating system.
Sure you will need a car, shopping, banks, taverns, everything you need, you will find in Vrisses, to the town of Rethymnon its 30 km, the beaches of Georgioupolis, special for children, 10 minutes BY car, the Lake of
Kournas is not far and Chania too.
Country House Pananos:
Also set behind stone walls this old villa is suitable for 4-5 people. There is an old stone patio charmingly smothered in overgrown vines and trees, with stone seating and an outside shower in front of the entrance area. The living area has a sleeping gallery with a double mattress for children, leading to a fully equipped split-level kitchen. From here there is a large living/dining room with little stone niches, a fireplace, old piano and various sofas. A few modern steps lead up to an open living area, with bookcases, some seating and a sofa bed. On the lowest level is a pretty bedroom with an antique cast iron double bed. Outside the house is another traditionally furnished bedroom with a single bed and a sun terrace. Quaintly the shower/wc is set nearby outside in a detached little round stone building.
Country House Faragi:
This 2 story house is suitable for 6 people, and is set above a small gorge from where the house takes its name. It is surrounded BY a delightful garden with stone seating and a huge mulberry tree. On the ground floor are two traditional cozy bedrooms with stone walls and wooden beamed ceilings, one with an antique double bed and one with twin beds. There is also a large living room with wooden beamed ceiling, fireplace, dining table, sofa bed, as well as shower/wc, and a small utility room with a washing machine. From the fully equipped kitchen one can reach the sun terrace. An open wooden staircase leads to the bedroom on the first floor with a double bed. A few steps higher and there is a large sun terrace with patio furniture and delightful views of the surrounding area.
Vouros (for 4 - 6): 3 bedrooms (1 double; sleeping gallery with double bed; children's sleeping platform atop wine barrels), 2 bathrooms (1 in adjacent bath house, another entered from outside), living room with fireplace and steps to the sleeping gallery, fully equipped kitchen, washing machine.
! ! ! In case you would like to stay at this place with more people than both houses can accommodate, there is an other modern house closed by, so that in total up to 18 guests can stay in this 3 houses closed toanother! ! ! |
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