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Corfu Retreat - SAN STEFANO
Location: San Stefano - on the beautiful island of Corfu
Date : 30th September / 7th October 2011
Cost: £375 pp
Come and join Val for a week of togetherness fun and work - The week will comprise of:
- Daily workshops
- Building the Links of Communication
- Sitting in the Power
- Mediumship and the Mind
- Creating the Conditions of Development
- Working with the Aura and your Chakras
- Daily individual free time
- Evenings either furthering your skills or enjoying the culture of this amazing island
The house and its history
San Stefano is a Venetian farmhouse built in 1782 on a rock commanding a spectacular view over the Corfu Channel to the mainland opposite. For many generations it has been in the Flamburiari, and subsequently the Manessi families, who wanted a country house where they could relax and escape the pressures of town, just like today's visitors. They built a balcony along the front of the house, where you can sit and watch the sunrise over the hills of Epirus and the ever changing light on the sea, with the bell-tower of the family’s private chapel in the foreground. San Stefano was a self-contained community, living off the produce of the estate, but it has also played host to Kaiser Wilhem 2nd, Russian nuns seeking a retreat (led by an aunt of the last tsar), doctors and nurses of the First World War, 18th century monks (some buried in the chapel), and more recently Corfu-loving visitors such as Gerald Durrell and Vivien Leigh.
Accommodation
The house is large and comfortable rather than grand, filled with light and opening out on to the wide balcony with its spectacular sea view. The cool spacious rooms contain mementoes of San Stefano’s history, reflecting not only the Venetian influence, but the time the family spent in India at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, their love of things English, and pride in their Greek heritage. It is not a museum however, but a family home, unobtrusively modernised to make it comfortable for 21st century living.
This includes all tuition, accommodation, breakfast and light lunch,
Evening meals, transfers, Culinery Tour to be purchased individually
Flights aprox £110 if booked soon
Deposit on booking £200
Balance to be paid 4 weeks prior to departure - can be paid monthly if easier
Book early as limited to 10 places
For further information, contact Val on 07968 103445 or 01737 765242 or email val@valhood.co.uk