[I doubt anyone reading this blog remembers the Rosemary Clooney song I used for the title of this posting.]
This is the entrance--you're looking at the front door. To the left, in an alcove, is a place where we hang our coats, backpack, and shopping bags, so we can grab them on our way out. I have turned the larger piece of funiture into a place to store office-type things: books and files I brought from home, various electronics, etc., because my "office" is across the room.
And here it is . . . It's really the dining table (we always eat in the kitchen).
In the front are piles of papers--otherwise it wouldn't be my office! At the far end is a very comfortable office chair and printer, and space for my laptop.. Sitting there, I can look out of the french doors that lead to the balcony. It's still early morning and quite dark, so you can't see much.
Here's the rest of the living room (it's about 25 feet long and 18 feet wide).
The two couches are perpendicular to one another and share use of the coffee table (which is really three tables and can be used in various configurations). Ken's new Greek musical instrument, a baglama, can be seen on the table. It's part of the bouzouki family, just smaller and tuned an octave higher.
The odd metal frame behind the small couch is the dryer....in other words, that's where you hang out the clothes. (No one uses a heated dryer in Greece!) Also, their front-loading European washing machines spin clothes a lot more effectively than our top-loading machines--so there's no dripping on the floor. We usually have it on the balcony, but it's been raining. The dark, paneled object in the back left corner of the lower photo is a wet bar. I'm sure you know how much use we get out of that!
Here's the two bedrooms.
As you can see from the lower photo, there's also a smaller balcony outside the bedrooms. The larger balcony opens off the livingroom. It's over 35 feet long and 8 feet wide.
And here's the bathroom. You can't see the washing machine, which is behind me as I take the photo,
Ken's having breakfast. It's a small kitchen, by our standards, but we manage. You can just see the edges of the microwave and smallish refrigerator to the right of the photo. It has a tiny countertop dishwashing machine in the far corner, but we've never used it. We also immediately put the espresso maker on the topmost shelf.
There's also a small storage room with extra furniture--I didn't bother to show you that or the TV. We get CNN international on at least 6 channels. It has Fareed Zacharia and Christine Amanpour, interesting Voices from Africa, and a strange Brit who does international business reporting. In the middle of the night, we can even get Wolfe Blitzer. We haven't paid for cable, so there's just a few other English-language programs at odd hours--mostly very out of date sitcoms and an occasional equally old movie.
This is the entrance--you're looking at the front door. To the left, in an alcove, is a place where we hang our coats, backpack, and shopping bags, so we can grab them on our way out. I have turned the larger piece of funiture into a place to store office-type things: books and files I brought from home, various electronics, etc., because my "office" is across the room.
And here it is . . . It's really the dining table (we always eat in the kitchen).
In the front are piles of papers--otherwise it wouldn't be my office! At the far end is a very comfortable office chair and printer, and space for my laptop.. Sitting there, I can look out of the french doors that lead to the balcony. It's still early morning and quite dark, so you can't see much.
The two couches are perpendicular to one another and share use of the coffee table (which is really three tables and can be used in various configurations). Ken's new Greek musical instrument, a baglama, can be seen on the table. It's part of the bouzouki family, just smaller and tuned an octave higher.
The odd metal frame behind the small couch is the dryer....in other words, that's where you hang out the clothes. (No one uses a heated dryer in Greece!) Also, their front-loading European washing machines spin clothes a lot more effectively than our top-loading machines--so there's no dripping on the floor. We usually have it on the balcony, but it's been raining. The dark, paneled object in the back left corner of the lower photo is a wet bar. I'm sure you know how much use we get out of that!
Here's the two bedrooms.
As you can see from the lower photo, there's also a smaller balcony outside the bedrooms. The larger balcony opens off the livingroom. It's over 35 feet long and 8 feet wide.
And here's the bathroom. You can't see the washing machine, which is behind me as I take the photo,
One view from our balcony is of all the solar heaters.
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