The Summer Room
Καλοκαιρινό
The top-floor room built for summer, with the wooden bay window, the sachnisi, and a bench the width of the room.
- Floor
- Top floor
- Size
- 34 m²
- Beds
- A king-size bed, 180 by 200
- Sleeps
- 2
- The view
- The whole valley, from the timber bay window
The room’s story
The summer room was the family’s best room from May to September: high up, open to the air on three sides, and built out over the courtyard in a wooden bay, the sachnisi, so the whole valley comes in through five windows.
The bench along the bay is where the women of the house did their embroidery and watched who came up the path. It is where our guests now read, drink their tea, and fall asleep in the afternoon. The bay was the most rotten part of the house; it took the carpenter a whole winter, and it is exactly as it was.
The plan
Katerina drew every room before the masons started, and redrew it when the walls turned out not to be where the old survey said. This is the room as it stands.
In the room
- The sachnisi: a timber bay with five windows
- A cushioned bench along the bay
- King-size bed
- Bath with a view of the valley
- The coolest breeze in the house
Rates by season
€135
November to March, except the holidays. The quiet months: fires every evening, snow two or three times, dinner on request nearly every night.
€170
April to October, Christmas to Epiphany, Easter week. Walking weather, long evenings in the courtyard, and in October the beech woods.
- A night, for the room, with breakfast for everyone in it.
- Two nights at weekends and three at Christmas, New Year and Orthodox Easter.
- Free cancellation until 14 days before arrival. After that the deposit is kept, unless we can let the room again.
- Cash or card when you leave. City tax is €1.50 a room a night, set by the state.
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter