WORKSHOPS      Select Workshop  VIEW SUMMER SCHEDULE --------------------- Aura Diagnosis Challenge of Intimacy Co-creating with Nature Community Building Ecovillage Training Jeff Foster Retreat Living in Community Guests Love as a Path Making Friends with Money Natural Building Nature yoga NVC Communication (Aug) Not Knowing Permaculture Tai Chi as Art (Yang form) Vipassana Retreat Work Camps Yoga week
About Us   |   Accomodation   |   Blog   |   Booking   |   Local Area Tour   |   Community Guests   |   Maps & Travel Info
Bursaries   |   Contact Us   |   Costs   |   Staff Opportunities   |   Vision   |   Workcamps   |   2008 Workshop Schedule

Pension Martiou is built upon a two floor stone house of Pelion traditional architecture, dated about 150 years old and restored by the present owner's father. The house is surrounded by a magical garden which includes rosebushes, hydrangeas, jasmine and other species planted and tended with love and affection by the Martiou family for many decades. The coolness provided by the climbing vines offer a natural environment. The view looking over the Aegean from the balcony is spectacular. The photos above taken in May 2008, shows the hotel from the driveway and front terrace looking West.
 

A few meters further left of the hotel there is a shaded patio where meals are served, and which is set up for art workshops out of eating hours. A separate building, just to the side of the patio, houses the fully equipped restaurant grade kitchen and two solar heated showers combined with toilets which serve the tents and yurts sited in the terraced grounds.

The Centre office and reception is located on the first floor of the hotel, nearby to which is located the adsl broadband internet terminal available for guest use. The WiFi network extends to most of the rooms and staff spaces.

The principle group room, sited on the north east terrace is planned to be a purpose built 7m reciprocal framed roundhouse to be constructed during the May 2009 workcamp. Workshops and retreats in 2008 will be held in the 14 foot yurt.      

Accomodation Facilities:

• 14 beds in seven bedrooms, three of which are ensuite double/twins with and one is a triple ensuite. Two ground floor rooms (a triple and a double) share a common toilet/shower, as does one of the first floor doubles. The hotel has two additional rooms on the first floor, however, one of these serves as the office, and the other is reserved for the workshop leader(s).
• Several ensuite single rooms in Kissos village, a 5-minute walk from the Centre

• Along with the third bed in the two triple rooms, one double tent and two yurts provide our staff with accomodation. The tents and yurts are served by the toilet/showers located in the kitchen building. There is a limited amount of space here for a couple of additional tents if you bring your own. Please first before booking
  
  
• The Blue Saloon   One 4 meter diameter yurt is used for meetings and 1-1 treatment sessions in the daytime, and can be booked for overnight intimacy by participants in shared accomodation.

A couple of staff volunteers are decorating feta cans. These big cans make excellent pots for the many flowers found on the estate. This area of Greece is renown for its gardenias and other varieties of flowers, and nearly every villager cultivates hundreds of flowers in their gardens, roofs and balconies as a cottage industry. Periodically these are trucked to Athens and other Greek cities for sale.

The right photo shows a view of the lower, middle and upper extended terraces, which contain staff tents, a fireside circle, vegie patch with compost area, and the sanctuary deck under construction. The upper extended terrace contains three magnificant black cherry trees and will become the permaculture site to be developed by the Ecovillage Week, 29 Aug - 4 Sept, Co-creating with Nature.

(Click to see a detailed map showing the layout of all rooms, tents and eco-yurts.)
 
Shown are a couple of typical twin bedded rooms in the hotel. These rooms both have ensuite facilities. Of the seven rooms available, five are doubles, and two are triples. The basic workshop costs given for each workshop are for accomodation in a double or a triple room. If you want to ensure that you get one of the double/twins, a £50/€75 per person supplement will guarantee it. If you require a single room, please specify this when booking. There is a single room supplement of £100/€150, and a £20/€30 reduction for tent accomodation on selected workshop weeks (please enquire), providing you bring your own tent, sleeping bag and towel.

When requesting a particular room please refer to the Kalikalos accomodation map. Log in as a guest to see the bed availability for any particular week.