Under the Slates
Σοφίτα
The attic, under the chestnut rafters, with a window in the roof for the stars.
- Floor
- Attic
- Size
- 28 m²
- Beds
- A double bed, 160 cm
- Sleeps
- 2
- The view
- Stars, through a window in the roof
The room’s story
The attic was never meant for sleeping. It was for drying: walnuts, herbs, tobacco, and in a bad winter the laundry. When we relaid the roof we numbered every slate, replaced the rotten battens with chestnut from the next valley, and made a room under them.
There is a window in the roof directly over the bed. On a clear night, with the lamp off, you will see more stars than you knew there were. In snow the room is very quiet, and very warm, and the light in the morning is blue.
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
- Chestnut rafters, exposed
- A roof window over the bed
- A gable window facing Tymfi
- Shower room
- Reached by a steep wooden stair
Rates by season
€100
November to March, except the holidays. The quiet months: fires every evening, snow two or three times, dinner on request nearly every night.
€130
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