Lawrence Durrell - White House, Kalami, Corfu

“English life is really like an autopsy. It is so, so dreary,” said Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, Durrell had found life in England unendurable when he returned there to attend school at the age of eleven. He later persuaded his family to move to Corfu in 1939 where they rented the White House in Kalami . Durrell felt that Greece reconnected him to India. He wrote descriptions of the house on the bay of Kalami and its views of Albania in his book “Prospero’s Cell”. He wrote descriptions of the house on the bay of Kalami and its views of Albania in his book “Prospero’s Cell”. His writing desk and dining table still form part of the apartment’s furnishings