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Post by jdh2011 on Jun 14, 2011 5:53:22 GMT
We have a beatuiful 200 year old rustic stone villa it has been charmingly and artistically restored providing a good degree of modern comfort, and is suitable for up to 8 people. Air conditioning (4 units) and internetconnection is available at an extra local charge, and there is also a washing machine. You can find out more and contact us via the website below www.villarentalsworldwide.co.uk the advert number to quickly find us is: 203 |
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Post by Di on Jun 14, 2011 17:47:28 GMT
Pity it's not on Halki  |
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Post by geedee on Jun 15, 2011 13:58:26 GMT
Hear,hear! Could probably manage without the swimming pool!!!
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Post by geedee on Jun 15, 2011 13:59:25 GMT
Or should it be 'here,here'?
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Post by Kinygos on Jun 15, 2011 16:34:37 GMT
Hear,hear! Could probably manage without the swimming pool!!! Now there's a thing! I looked at properties in Kriti. and I stipulated "NO SWIMMING POOL". As it turned out I saw sense and bought on Rodos. Why on earth would anyone want a swimming pool in Greece? The sheer expense of the thing, which in any case would be little more than a paddling pool, or plunge pool is beyond comprehension! Possible reasons. 1) don't like salt water(?) 2) don't like waves! 3) fear of fish. The Telegraph uncovered this complaint "No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled." I well remember swimming at Ftenagia before it was there. (There was just a ruined barn.) Swimming pool my a....! However, there has been a possible problem in the Emborio bay/harbour due to the s*w**e system. Don't know if it's been resolved. It involved microscopic rather than macroscopic contamination, and may be more theoretical than practical, as I understand it. Frau Chalkibert is avoiding it. Ftenagia, Pondamus, & Kania are OK in any case. |
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Post by Di on Jun 15, 2011 17:57:50 GMT
there has been a possible problem in the Emborio bay/harbour due to the s*w**e system. Does this mean that you don't swim, as such, you just go through the motions   (sorry, couldn'y resist it) |
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Post by sunfun on Jun 15, 2011 18:06:24 GMT
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D good one Di! |
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Post by Kinygos on Jun 16, 2011 6:40:32 GMT
there has been a possible problem in the Emborio bay/harbour due to the s*w**e system. Does this mean that you don't swim, as such, you just go through the motions (sorry, couldn'y resist it) Just trying to help everyone. No need to create a stink about it!
On the plus side the restaurants will be serving up really FAT Grey Mullet this year!
Yummy!
Would that be a case of getting your own back? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 10:43:07 GMT
Hope you're not poo pooing the new s*w**e system ;D |
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Post by Kinygos on Jun 16, 2011 11:37:35 GMT
Hope you're not poo pooing the new s*w**e system ;D I get the feeling that you are taking the P** Captain! I am assured that they installed a Bog Standard system. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 19:05:56 GMT
I could sink lower but I feel this is not the place. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 19:46:08 GMT
How did we get here from an advert for a villa in Crete |
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Post by sunfun on Jun 16, 2011 20:14:18 GMT
Whatever floats your boat ;D |
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Post by pensioner2 on Jun 21, 2011 10:31:34 GMT
All that banter certainly made me smile when the rain was p***ing down on my washing. We have only three weeks to go before our next visit so whats this about new sewerage system. We always wondered where it all went.  |
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Post by Kinygos on Jun 21, 2011 11:45:29 GMT
To be serious, Frau Chalkibert told me that there had been an announcement that, once again, the pumping system beneath the area in front of "Maria's" had suffered with ingress of salt water. There was no money to fix it and there was a risk of bacterial contamination in the harbour area. That said, it is possible that some of the yachts on the pontoon may pump out into the sea.
I did state elsewhere that, theoretically there was a prohibition on swimming in the harbour area in any case. This makes sense, but not to those who rent seaside properties, who feel that the sea is theirs. Remember "Vitsenzos Kornaros'" close encounter with "Christina". I would not have liked to be swimming in that area on that occasion!
I swim round my boat to inspect my bottom, sometimes to scrub it, so I too am probably being foolish. Mixing swimmers and boats is always problematical. Water pollution just adds another dimension to the problem. This is confounded by the lack of currents and tides to disperse the pollution.
Pondamus, & Kania. should be OK. The pontoon at Ftenagia is for mooring boats, not really for sunbathing & diving, otherwise Ftenagia is also OK.
I think that, as with most things in Greece, do it at your own risk and don't imagine that you can sue anybody if you get the collywobbles afterwards, or get hit by a boat. This is not the UK where a burglar can sue you for injury incurred when breaking into your house!
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(sorry, couldn'y resist it)