Starting the final structure

Marc left for Corfu today - last heard of at Athens airport having missed his connecting flight!

He plans to finalise the positions of pillars, posts and pipes and if he remembers he will be sowing some grass seed in the garden of Tortoise Villa.

He's also going to a wedding and a festival so should have a great time.

I'm expecting some good photographs to come my way.

Starting on the top tier

The builders are now working on the highest tier of our land.


Yannis was back with his digger to level the gound so that they can create a single, level concrete slab running from the front of the 'box' to the back of the final house.



We have acquired quite a mountain of earth that we will need to move somewhere.

With the ground levelled it was time for more wooden shuttering to form the shape of the house .

It looks huge but the top of the 'box' is nearly all patio

And then the first layer of concrete.

This is the view from Thanassis' home - with the concrete being poured on the top tier and the lower house poking through the trees.