The Back of Beyond, as it has come to be known, encompasses about an acre of ground in a green valley overlooking Chrysochous bay and the mountains rising behind. The house, on the outskirts of Neo Khorio, is about a two-minute drive from the little fishing port of Latchi lying below.

The house itself is pretty basic, having two bedrooms and two bathrooms downstairs, and a large living-room with an archway leading into a kitchen upstairs. Having the living quarters upstairs allows us to take full advantage of the magnificent view out over the bay of Chrysochous. It also permits the prevailing westerly breeze from the peninsula to blow through the house in summer, keeping it cool. Large sliding windows open to verandahs at either end of the living-room - the front one, faces east out over the bay, and the rear one overlooks the swimming-pool, which is integral both with the house and Harry's studio opposite.

Rising behind the studio is our ‘forest,' an area covering some five hundred square metres, where wild orchids bloom in the spring beneath tall conifer trees, carobs and hollyoak. At the top of the ‘forest' the boundary running along the southern side, above the house, is planted with tall, dark-green cypress trees until it meets the boundary which faces eastward towards the sea. Here the ground drops gently away, and the land in front is thickly covered with wilds shrubs, olive and carob trees.

The boundary on the northern side runs beside the old road to the village and is marked, for the most part, with a mature hedge of rosemary. Inside the perimeter an olive grove, the trees now three years old, is bordered on the inside by a stream-bed, dry in summer, but running with water when the winter rains come. In the lower orchard, below the front gate, this stream-bed deepens and widens and it is here from the cover of the thicket that nightingales sing during the spring migration. Carob trees growing along the length of the stream-bed give shade and privacy to the house and the garden

Bougainvilleas climb the walls of the house and the terraced garden is planted with indigenous shrubs which do not require constant watering. Mature shrubs of oleander, hibiscus, plumbago and lantana give colour all summer long, while the rosemary's blue flowers appear in October, In spring the wild cyclamen, for which this area is famous, flower all over the garden, as well as in the olive grove, where several species of wild orchids bloom. Window-boxes on the studio and terracotta pots, filled with petunias and geraniums, surround the swimming-pool, while swallows swoop and soar overhead.