This is the Kalami Bay in Corfu, Greece where the "White House" is located.  The White House itself is a two-story whitewashed building right on the shore (to the left of the center of the photograph). This house was rented by Lawrence Durrell and his wife, Nancy, and that's where they "absorbed" the love for that island. Larry's younger brother, Gerald,  and their family often came here to stay "away from the civilization."  Photograph by Louise Theobald (1998).
		When Lawrence and Nancy Durrell moved into the "White House" in October of 1935, it was only a single-story cottage.  Later they added a second floor to accommodate all of Larry's visiting friends. Here's how Gordong Bowker1 describes it:  "Around October, he and Nancy moved north to rent a fisherman's house perched on a big white rock on Kalami Bay.  Their landlord, Anastasius Athanaios, a small, dark, modest man, moved his wife Eleni and his two daughters into one room and let the Durrells have the remaining two, plus use of the kitchen and the dinning room.  The house (known as the White House) was a single-story whitewashed cottage, with (rare then in rural Corfu) a working toilet.  The view over the encircling bay towards Albania was idyllic, and at high tide the water lapped right up to their windows.  Cypresses lined the coastline, and around it grew the olive trees from which most of the peasants made their living.  The Venetians had subsidized orange, peach and pear trees.  Kalami was remote and difficult to reach by road, especially in the rainy season, so communication with Corfu town was mainly by the twice-weekly caique, which deposited their possessions at the White House shortly after their arrival."  Photograph by Louise Theobald (1998).
		1Gordon Bowker. Through the Dark Labyrinth: a Biography of Lawrence Durrell. St. Martin's Press, New York. 1997