Olive trees

 

I love olive trees!

I love their silver and green leaves and their fruits, olives.

In my summer house, in Evia, I have planted 7 olive trees and each November, we have olives from them.

In Ireland, they are not very popular although Irish weather does not have a negative impact on their longevity.

The photo is the olive tree that I purchased a week ago from a garden center in Ennis. It's full of flower buds but the olive trees in Ireland, because of the lack of dry weather and sun, they do not produce olives. However, I love having one at my house so I can dream away my summer house.

P.S. Olive trees are known to have therapeutic properties (olive oil) and there were the reason that Athens is named after the Goddess Athena.

 

Dreaming away...

my view right now...15 minutes after the sunset...
at the front balcony of our house...

Dreaming away...

Storms of the past and the future seem so distant!

House with a View

These are some photos of our house in Southern Evia, for rent on per week basis.
Our house has two floors; ground floor with living room, kitchen and bathroom; first floor with 3 bedrooms.

Ground floor

living room with double sofa bed

living room from entrance door, staircase leading to first floor and door to the bathroom

kitchen

dining table in between kitchen and living room; windows on the right with sea view

 First floor

sea views from bedrooms

first floor balcony

front of the house, with ground floor and first floor balconies

Around the house

side path going from the front of the house to the pergola area at the back

pergola area at the back of the house; ideal for outdoor meals, bbq, reading and ...backgammon :)

view from ground floor balcony

sunset views from the house

views from pergola area

 

this is a short video with morning views, you can hear the cicadas in the background