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Villa Lemonia, Drapanias |
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The house sits on what was once the twisting main road from Chania to Kastelli. It is in a central position in the best part of the village. Now the traffic on the quiet street is mainly agricultural tractors, or visitors to the “town hall” next door but one. Drapanias is a completely natural, un-gentrified, agricultural working village with no pretensions whatsoever. There are two mini markets, three Kafeneons/Tavernas, and two baker's shops. |
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This house in an area of genuine Cretan culture - there are no foreign-owned housing estate developments or tourist accommodation anywhere nearby. Lemonia is next door and to the right of our Villa Ariadne. Both houses are entirely separate and do not overlook each other. From the street and to the right hand side of a big Lemon tree, there is a small driveway that leads to the front door of Lemonia and the front garden. |
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The inside of the house follows an old Cretan tradition of having a mezzanine style - or “Ondas” in Greek. There is a small arched entrance lobby and to the left of the entrance is the sitting room that opens out through a bay window and double glass doors onto the front garden. Much use has been made of windows and shutters to create a feeling of space and light without suffering heat in the summer. The ceiling here is almost the full height of the house. |
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Ahead from the entrance lobby is an archway through to the kitchen. Continuing round to the right there is the staircase to the mezzanine and the door to the bathroom in which there is a two-person shower/bath and WC etc plus a washing machine. The kitchen and bathroom are therefore under the mezzanine floor, which is the double bedroom. The short staircase leads up to the bedroom and a balcony area that has wardrobes and a store cupboard. |
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The balcony overlooks part of the sitting room but is designed in such a way that there is complete privacy one room to the other, except at the head of the stairs when the view down to the traditional wood-burning stove and the sitting room is very attractive. The bedroom window overlooks the back garden through the leaves of the grapevine. The front garden leads from the double doors in the sitting room and has a patio, lemon tree, olive tree and flower beds. The elevated position of the house allows one to watch the world go by in shaded seclusion. |
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Outside through the kitchen double doors at the back of the house, there is a completely enclosed walled garden with a large patio under the shade of a grape vine. The rest of the garden has pathways and low earth retaining walls and is planted with trees, shrubs and rock plants plus space for growing salad vegetables etc. Water heating in the house is by an electric boiler on a time switch and winter heating is by wood-burning stove. |
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The house has a telephone and full ADSL Broadband internet connection ready for use. Cooking is by bottled butane gas - each bottle lasts around six to eight weeks of average use. |
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Prices This house is available for thirteen-week sabbatical periods or longer. This is not a tourist house. Prices start from around €170 per week for a thirteen-week stay. This is exceptional value - often at around one third of normal tourist accommodation rental prices and there are also special prices for six and twelve month rental contracts. We have clients for short and long-term rental from all over the world and no two requirements are ever the same so do please ask for a specific quotation appropriate to your circumstances. |
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