Educational leave "Live and work like 50 years before"

In the villa Eleftheria you can immerse yourself in a completely different world during your educational holiday. We offer you insights into our self-sufficient life and bring you closer to the Cretan traditions. You will feel like living in a different time, when community was essential for survival and human contact was am matter of course.

Choose your focus from the following topics and we will arrange a suitable program for your stay with us:

- Smallholder, sustainable agriculture, permaculture, self-sufficiency

Gardening (fertilizing, planting, plant care, harvesting)
Feeding and caring for our animals (goats, sheep, rabbits, poultry)
Olive trees (depending on the season: cut trees, cut wood, fertilize, till, water, olive harvest)

- Gastronomy, hotel industry

Preparation of typical Greek dishes, partly from own products
Production of cheese and yoghurt from sheep or goat milk
Gathering and canning of wild capers, gathering of snails (spring)
Collect, dry and prepare wild herbs and garden herbs (spring)
Harvesting, drying and canning tomatoes (summer)
Collect and preserve fruit
Harvesting and canning olives (autumn)
Preparation of the guest rooms and care of the guests

- Do-it yourself

Painting guest rooms and exterior walls
maintenance work in the house
Decoration of guest rooms and courtyard

- Adventure Crete

Explore Crete's mountains, gorges and coasts on hikes
Insights into Crete's history and traditions (visits to museums, archaeological excavation sites, traditional pubs, village festivals with folk music)
Introduction to the Greek language