The homes will be spread out among English gardens and courtyards, cobblestone streets and tree-lined promenades.
Meanwhile, he and José invested their savings in an orchard plot in Leatherhead, Surrey, and designed a single-storey house around a courtyard, an English counterpart to the steel-framed bungalows promoted in American architectural magazines.
The grounds include a Japanese Zen garden, an English garden, a French courtyard with a free-standing fireplace and a Moroccan garden.
Its lively courtyard, filled with English, Dutch and Greek holidaymakers for much of the year, hides a more industrious secret, however – for behind the scenes, Patriko is the hub of Gaia.
Graffiti on a side wall, written in krio, the local pidgin English, warned anyone against urinating in the courtyard.
Built in 1935, it borrows elements of many traditions and eras — a Georgian staircase reminiscent of an English country house, French doors, a Mediterranean courtyard.
Smiling, he introduced himself in perfect English and led us up the inner courtyard stairs into a nicely furnished room with a TV and PlayStation.
In the morning, he took me for an English breakfast at a cafe hidden in a courtyard down an old, labyrinthine alley.
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