27/05/2024
💦 Adventure boat tour “The Durrells and the sea”
🐚 Our crew is awaiting you with a welcome drink on board, while passing by the city of Corfu town with its remarkable pastel colored 400 year old Venetian houses and the old fortress.
🐚 Our crew will share their knowledge on the Durrell family, along with small excerpts from the Durrells’ books (Gerald Durrell’s “My family and other animals” & “Birds, beasts and relatives” and Lawrence Durrell’s “Prospero’s cell”) as well as their family biography. Of course we could not exclude showing you around all the spots where they filmed the scenes for the successful series “The Durrells” (prod. Christopher Hall, 2016-2019).
🐚 As we go on with our cruise, we can spot from afar the elegant Mon Repos Palace, where Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband was born in 1921.
🐚 Finally we will reach the idyllic “Mouse island” (Pontikonisi) with its white picturesque Greek orthodox chapel “Vlacherna”- both serve as landmarks of Corfu island.
🐚 We sail back and anchor at the beautiful uninhabited island of Vidos, where local fauna and flora exist untouched from humans.
🐚 Afterwards, we can relax on board and listen to several short stories of the Durrells whilst sailing along the east coast towards the North. We’ll come across the beautiful Venetian Villa in Kontokali, that served as the setting for the Durrells’ home in the series…and we will spot yet another idyllic chapel, that of Saint Arsenius, a serene location that Larry & Nancy Durrell favored as a swimming spot.
🐚 Last but not least, arriving at the small village of Kalami, you can have lunch at the famous White House, where Lawrence Durrell lived with his wife Nancy in the 1930s.
An unforgettable trip that promises to amaze you!
