![]() It’s a classic case of “if these walls could talk.”Īfter many years of being guests or house sitters in their friends’ homes, the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and the photographer Joan Eyres Monsell found the perfect spot to build their Greek home. ![]() He was referring, no doubt, to the space’s beauty and location- at the foot of Mount Taygetus and overlooking the Messenian Gulf-but also to the pollination of ideas, works, and conversations that must have gone on within its walls while the Leigh Fermors were in residence. ![]() “It is a room of the world,” wrote the poet John Betjeman when describing Joan and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s living room in their Kardamyli house, at the edge of the Western Peloponnese. ![]()
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