Press Reviews

1. The Financial Times, Food & Travel, March 2008

An olive grove with gnarled trees, some planted 1500 years ago, Levendis is a hillside landscaped into a beautiful organic garden looking out to white cliffs with fingers of green scrub reaching down to the improbably blue Ionian sea. The view is timeless and the peace is overwhelming..... Odysseus spent seven years ensnared by the goddess Calypso. She asked him why he wouldn't accept her offer of immortality and eternal youth. He replied that he wanted to get back to Ithaca.

2. The Ethical Travel Guide, published in The Independent, 7 April, 2006:

Everything Levendis does is geared to the health of the environmentally fragile island of Ithaca. Your spending on the island will benefit local families and businesses, and you can even buy trees to offset the carbon emissions of your flight to Greece.
Also at: http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/article356356.ece

3. The Sunday Times - Travel, 30 Jan 2005 says:

Ithaca, the fabled home of Odysseus, is calmer still. Stay at the idyllic Levendis Estate created by a Greek family as their own dream holiday destination. It's an organic farm set in terraced olive groves and gardens, and can accommodate 20 guests in several cottages. Childcare is available, as are motorboats, scuba and sailing lessons, and aromatherapy massage by the pool. Kitchens come stocked with fresh produce from the garden, and there's a fine restaurant. A week for four, including transfers from Cephalonia airport to Ithaca and a hire car, is £3,170 — cheaper if your children are under 6 or share a cot in your room. Catch a charter to Cephalonia. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1461689_2,00.html

4. Alastair Sawday 'Special Places to Stay: Greece', 2006

Odysseus had trouble getting home to Ithaca but Mal and Spero have outwitted the gods and laid on a private caique from Kefalonia. An idyllic island of lush hills, pretty villages, friendly locals, aquamarine seas. At Levendis the shimmering beauty of Aphales Bay draws you down through sage-scented gardens to a salt-water pool where swallows drink. The view is dazzling. Sunsets turn the Marmakas peninsula pink. A very special place.

5. Published in: Adventure Hotel Stories, Francisca Matteoli, Assouline Publishing, New York, 2005

6. Published in: Exotic Retreats: Eco Resort Design, Julia Faiers, Rotovision SA, Switzerland, 2005

Publications

1. Adventure Hotel Stories, Francisca Matteoli,
Assouline Publishing, New York, 2005

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2. Exotic Retreats: Eco Resort Design, Julia Faiers,
Rotovision S.A., Switzerland, 2005

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3. The Eco-travel Handbook, Alastair Faud-Luke,
Thames & Hudson, London, 2008

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4. Eco-Hotels of the World, Alex Conti, 2008

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5. Conde Nast Traveller, May 2008

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