Our home in Winter Harbor

Over the years I've been fortunate to have spent a fair amount of time in restaurants, usually eating. Never in my wildest dreams, after all our permabulations in Italy and Paris would I have imagined we would ever be living in a restaurant. Nonetheless Susan and I started moving our things into our new home, a small studio apartment above a restaurant in Winter Harbor, where we will be spending the summer. It is just a couple blocks' walk to Gerrish's Cafe, where we will be working starting in June, and smack in the middle of town overlooking the cove which opens out onto the Gulf of Maine:

Notice the deck on top which is easily accessed through our apartment.

The view from the front of the restaurant is spectacular (although it was cold and rainy when I took these photos):

The restaurant is closed while it undergoes a transformation into a culinary school, so there it will just be the two of us and the ghosts of diners past roaming the cavernous interior. The photo below shows a view of the second or mezzanine level looking across at the stairway to our apartment on the third level (you can just barely see the door to our apartment). The kitchens are directly below.

This view was taken from midway up the stairs to our apartment (you can see them in the above photo) and was designed so the people eating on this level could look right down onto the working area, rather like a surgical operating theatre:

Quite an imaginative design for a restaurant we thought. Anyway, the interior of the apartment is pretty straightforward: simple studio layout, long and rectangular with dormer windows on the opposite side from a well-appointed kitchen that actuallly looks out over the open space of the restaurant. Besides the an entrance from the restaurant there is a door leading to the outside and then onto a spiral staircase that in turn leads to a large deck on the roof. The apartment comes with washer/dryer and a full kitchen.





So we finish moving in this week and hope to have the place shipshape by the weekend. I'll be adding more photos later as well as a video clip or two as we settle in.

Wish you were here,

Steve