Couples Retreat – February 9-16, 2020

a you and your other half retreat…..Mind, body and a unique culinary experience unite in a beautiful organic farm aesthetic ambience. Cook farm to table meals together, taste natural wines and learn about olive oil. Take serene walks in our ancient olive grove and vineyards as you explore eumelia. Enjoy drinks and open fire pit cooking under the starlit sky. Couple’s Yoga will bring you closer and couple’s massage will help you relax. Venture out with us to the romantic castle town of Monemvasia and the seaside town of Gytheio as we explore the Mani region. A week long retreat for you and your other half where all the details and planning have been taken cared of by the eumelia team, all you have to do is bring your smile and sense of adventure.

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DAY 1

• Arrival at eumelia
• Welcome farm to table dinner. The chef will prepare for you an organic and zero-kilometer meal. Eumelia’s organic vegetables are combined with local delicacies and form a unique gastronomic experience

DAY 2

• Organic homemade handmade breakfast, including some of eumelia’s specialties such as lavender butter cookies, rosemary chocolate cake, freshly handmade bread with figs or olives, and infusions with wild herbs from the farm.
• Sustainability tour of the organic farm and guesthouse, learn, come in contact with the Greek agricultural landscape
• Farm to table lunch
• Yoga
• Couples Massage
• Farm to table dinner

DAY 3

• Organic homemade handmade breakfast
• Olive oil and olive tasting. Learn all the secrets of the green gold of Greece, how to distinguish a fresh extra virgin olive oil, the eatable Greek olive varieties and how to store your olive oil properly. Meet the perennial olive trees that age more than 2000 years – you can even hide in their trunks!
• Farm to table lunch
• Yoga
• Couples Massage
• Farm to table dinner

DAY 4

• Organic homemade handmade breakfast
• Local cuisine cooking class with a twist and lunch: Learn all the secrets of the local Laconic gastronomy with the guidance of the farm chef. Prepare and bake your own sourdough bread made with locally sourced and milled organic flour. Pick fresh eatable wild greens from the farm and learn to prepare filo dough and make that famous local pitas. Pick the vegetables and herbs you need from eumelia’s organic gardens and herb spiral and prepare your own local cuisine traditional meals with a twist. From farm to your table, prepare and cook an organic, traditional, local cuisine and zero-kilometer meal. The organic vegetables and the famous organic olive oil are combined with local delicacies to offer you a unique gastronomic experience. Put together the gastronomic puzzle of the region, boil, bake and create special dishes from the symphony of local products
• Visit the most romantic castle town of Greece, Monemvasia. Walk among the cobble stone walkways, an amazing tasting of local products, a romantic dinner and then drinks in this mystical castle

DAY 5

• Couples Yoga
• Private homemade handmade brunch at your house
• Hot wine & Rakomelo at the fire-pit
• Private dinner in your house

DAY 6

• Organic homemade handmade breakfast
• A romantic day trip to the beautiful region of Mani. Head to the famous Diros caves, an amazing seafood lunch in the picturesque seaside town of Limeni. Then we head to Gytheio and the small island of Kranai where Helen of Troy and Paris spent their last night before heading to Troy. A romantic Valentines dinner by the seaside town of Gytheio and then drinks

DAY 7

• Private homemade handmade brunch at your house
• Wine tasting
• Open fire pit cooking all together

DAY 8

• Organic homemade handmade breakfast
• Farewells & Departure