Melbourne is an accessible city from several perspectives. Specifically planned with a rectangular street layout, streets meet at right angles making orientation straightforward. Footpaths on main thoroughfares are wide with plenty of seating provided. Melbourne’s “lanes” are narrower often with difficult footpaths to negotiate where they intersect with driveways and other lanes. However it is [...]
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Selecting Resale Properties on Kefalonia
A series of earthquakes on the island of Kefalonia in 1953 totally destroyed the majority of the buildings with only a small area at the northern most point escaping the devastation. As a result, an estimated 100,000 people left the island seeking a new life elsewhere. Following the major earthquake of 1953 property development on [...]
