https://www.lazymonkeyadventures.com/home daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://www.lazymonkeyadventures.com/about daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://www.lazymonkeyadventures.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-08-17 https://www.lazymonkeyadventures.com/portfolio daily 1.0 2026-01-05 https://www.lazymonkeyadventures.com/portfolio/project-one-h346n-2jnz8 monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/4b24f869-39b7-4153-aef1-1a481ec1e6ee/corfu9.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia In the golden light of evening, the bell tower of Old Perithia casts its shadow across the church façade — a silent witness to centuries of life, worship, and mountain refuge. Built in the 16th century under Venetian rule, it once marked the heart of a thriving community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/0116dda3-1c28-4abe-8abd-3adf0bf52c2e/corfu10.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Perched high on the slopes of Mount Pantokrator, Old Perithia lies tucked away from the coastal world — a defensive choice during the days of pirate raids and plague. Today, its red-tiled roofs and weathered stone walls remain, but the bustle of daily life has long faded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/59a20f95-6283-4905-83b4-3e8f5b2e67d2/corfu11.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Every doorway tells a story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/b5ed104a-fe17-4d18-826d-7ad039075ba3/corfu12.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Generations crossed this stone threshold, its surface polished smooth by centuries of footsteps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/5a5970ea-0c22-4813-a85a-e8e76d9bdc2f/corfu13.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Parked decades ago, this 1960s relic has become part of the village’s fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/263cb984-826f-4526-a99f-e1b011086f7f/corfu14.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Rust creeps across its chrome, weeds curl around its tires — a mechanical fossil in a stone-age street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/86b13354-061e-4e15-bcca-dd1c2c2eb784/corfu15.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Nature has a patient hand. Year by year, ivy pries apart mortar, and fig trees take root in abandoned hearths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/01ee02ff-fb21-4401-ae59-1394edf62116/corfu16.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Once the heart of childhood in Old Perithia, this school now sits in silence. Generations of children climbed these steps, their laughter echoing across the cobblestones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/790c71c9-5af1-4db6-98c9-01927d6781f8/corfu17.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Today, its walls carry a new kind of mark — graffiti scrawled by passing visitors and wanderers. Where lessons of reading and arithmetic once filled the air, silence is broken only by the scratch of spray paint and the creak of shifting beams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/a4f71329-315c-4b25-be6d-e6467a83cb42/corfu18.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia A ceiling has caved in, spilling beams and stone onto the classroom floor. What once sheltered young minds from the mountain weather has given way, exposing the school to the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/1f7c02c7-99a3-4698-b0c5-4b8ba82a3579/corfu19.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Standing back, the school appears both fragile and enduring — its walls scarred, its roof torn, yet still holding the shape of a place built for hope and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689d92700ddb59462ff7f3f5/20a03432-6c41-4358-9f55-1ae8f47c178e/corfu20.JPG Portfolio - Old Perithia Outside, a massive tree now towers over the ruins — roots gripping the earth, branches stretching skyward. Where the village’s youngest voices once grew, nature continues the lesson: all things return to the earth. https://www.lazymonkeyadventures.com/portfolio/chalk-grit-bouldering-culture-in-sheffield-and-the-peak-district monthly 0.5 2025-08-23