We understand that booking an independent villa can be a leap of faith, so we thought you might like to know a little bit more about us and how Fresh Ionian came to be. We are Jay and Jeanette Mercer and we bought Villa Petros in autumn 2019.
We live in West Sussex, UK, with our three cats. Jay has worked in education most of his career and has a great love of history. Jeanette started life as a linguist and after re-training, now runs her own interior design business, Fresh Traditions.
We were married in 1992, and over the years we’ve spent many holidays in Italy, Turkey and Greece. The things we look for have settled into a pattern – a relaxed atmosphere, no high-rise blocks with hundreds of rooms, a swimming pool (Jeanette used to be very nervous about swimming in the sea!), a touch of history and – most importantly of all – a view.
