Car hire & accomodation viewing Lesvos

We realised now we might have to review our options.

Louise spent days on the internet e-mailing properties all over Lesvos and I cycled for hours scouring lamp posts on which property to let is posted.

We got taken to a property by a lady architect, with a boat in the marina, who designed & built a lovely studio next to their house. It was brand new & never used, but just too small for 4 plus months.

In the end we narrowed our choice down to five. We were still awaiting further negotiated replies from one.

All of these bar one were in other parts of the island so transport then became an issue to be considered for travelling to /working on the boat.

So to make a day out of it we hired a car to view them.

The 1st contender discounted.

There were no shops or facilities nearby and the one couch was a knackered sofa bed. Hope it gets better?

To cut a long story short by the end of the day we had narrowed our choice down to two. One in Anaxos in the north of the island and the one just outside Mytilini that we would view in a few days.

      

We had lunch in a hill top tavern just above Petra / Anaxos with great views.

We had a lovely drive back via Molivos down the north coast to Mytilni, fairly optimistic that we at least would have a place to go to ……. assuming no more

Aaaaargh its Maria!

Well meet Marina……

Light years away from Maria.

Lovely lady, lovely parents, lovely property.

She agreed a price far less than “she who now must not be named.”

She immediately took the accommodation availability of the website.

When we met her parents the 1^st time they picked us up and showed us around the villa.

The next time when we paid our deposit they came to the marina, bought us coffee and gave us boxes of cakes & chocolates as a “Sign of our first meeting”

All in all perhaps it all turned out better.

       

Can’t wait

Addendum:

During our search, on the off chance, we visited a couple of estate agents.Both as usual said no less than 1 year options, but the 2^nd when pushed said he may have one for about 900 then came down to 700. He was sure he could broker a deal. Too much for us and when he showed us the property I started to laugh and explained we had had an agreement already with “She ……etc” which fell through.

He was not a happy bunny, probably because he had missed out on his commission as a result of greed.   Ah Yin & Yang.

To celebrate we had a night oot on the toon and Lily got a new prison gate

Glammed up

  Out with the old & in with the new

Now back to the sailing eh ?