Q Well Being

In my early teens I decided that I wanted to be able to have the option of spending some of the cold UK winters abroad. Over the years, my husband and I have spent time looking in various places, admittedly based on places that we had been for warm weather training, but there were always things that didn’t sit right. Good weather was something that was important, but access either in the apartments or the local area was also important. Growing up I didn’t have a lot of accessible things built in to my house, but I also recognised that as I grew older there would be different things that I would need. I started to think that I wouldn’t find anything that fitted the criteria that we had. If you go somewhere on holiday there are plenty of things that you can make do with, but not if you want to spend a lot more time in a certain location.

It all changed last year when I met Adam Thomas, and we started chatting about accessible properties abroad and he told me about a project he was working on. It was in Cyprus, somewhere that we had looked at previously to buy a property, as we had visited numerous times both for training camps and family holidays. I explained some of the difficulties that I experienced in accessibility, but also the importance of design and aesthetics, of wanting somewhere that was suitable, but looked nice too ! My father is an architect so these are some of the things that I grew up with. The project that Adam was working on also had a gym and a spa (I spend more time in the latter than the former these days). Getting all those things right is so important and needs time, and good people behind it.

I was asked to put some of my experience of training facilities and gyms into practise by looking at the designs and concept, but I knew that if I wanted to do it properly then I would have to go and visit the parent company and also the site. I have just come back from Cyprus where I met George, the architect behind all the plans and designs that I had seen in the UK. George is forward thinking and committed to beautiful designs that work – he listened to what Adam and I have had to say about the balance of accessibility and style. I also has a chance to look at the site where the apartments are going to be and also the surrounding area, they are in a great place and there are some exciting developments on their way which I will tell you more about soon !!!! I think that what is going to happen there is going to be a brilliant long term investment and have been so pleased that I am buying an apartment, and am in the process of picking the apartment that I would like. There is definitely more to come…