Enormous Waterwheel


F made us stop on the way back from Delfi a couple of weeks back.  She had seen this on the way out.

It's big.

There is no water now and the building is looking a bit worse for wear - what Mr B calls a doer-upper.

F seems to have a gene that attracts her to old workings, things that did mechanical jobs, more than any other kind of human derived really old stuff. We (me and Mr B) are sat in the car on the side of the road trying to read a sign in Greek about a wartime aeroplane crash, and she's clambering around in stinging nettles and through ditches and standing on mounds of stone to get a better look at it all.

By the way, it has a 'to let' sign on it in case you know anyone that wants to do a 'barn conversion' with a really cool water wheel feature.

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  1. Yamini MacLean1 March 2022 at 09:51

    Hari Om
    To Let? You'd want to be owning it wouldn't you. (Well, it seems F and I would, anyway - yes I have similar interests!) Imagine doing it all up and then the landlord saying, thanks, now on yer way mate...

    That really is an enormous wheel - it reminds me of the Laxey Wheel (IoM), but that is fully functioning still.

    ...were the plane crash and the state of this building connected??? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx

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    1. Tigger's Mum1 March 2022 at 15:42

      We don't think the plane hit the building but it (the plane) did wipe out half a village worth of population.
      As for To Let, we agree and it did seem odd, but we guess it depends on the terms. Some European countries have strange life-lets arrangements although in our experience they usually work in reverse - you buy the place with the owners able to continue to reside in them for life. It releases equity to them and you price the purchase on a gamble about when the occupants will die.

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    2. Tigger's Mum1 March 2022 at 15:45

      ACTUALLY the proper translation is: IS AVAILABLE (which could mean anything - available for parties and weddings possibly.....)

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  2. MadSnapper1 March 2022 at 12:51

    I am with Yam, to let? as in rent? not own? I would be climbing around to. I love it. really love it! old stone and old metal, in fact all things ancient, I love to see them. It would take a lot of money to fix it up and I guess those who have that much money are not interested in it.

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  3. northsider 1 March 2022 at 13:11

    That water wheel must been an amazing sight when it was working with the water glistening in the Greek sunshine Tigger.

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  4. angela2 March 2022 at 06:26

    I’d love a home with a working water wheel
    This is just way to much a doer upper for me

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  5. Amy3 March 2022 at 07:15

    It looks very heavy, looking at it I can kind of relate to how old it is, sometimes you just feel a bit rusted up and weary

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