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<\/a>Door removed, ready for entry<\/p><\/div>\n
When we bought the house we were told that this small edifice contained a bread oven, one of the essentials for any self-respecting mid-nineteenth century country home. A recent conversation with Miro (from the big green house down the road) suggested that the building was bigger than we first thought and contained not only a bread oven but also a bodega, but at that moment I couldn’t see anything other than vines.<\/p>\n
Ten minutes with a pair of tree-loppers and I’d cleared a path to the back of the building and as I looked to my right there was no sign of a bread oven, my heart sank.<\/p>\n
I moved back to the entrance doorway and decided to tackle the area immediately to my right, momentarily covered in an impenetrable curtain of ivy. Removing vine after vine a wall came into view, then an opening in the wall. Finally, accompanied by a fist-pump and a ‘get in’,<\/em> to no-one other than myself, there was the mythical bread oven.<\/p>\n Bread oven revealed<\/p><\/div>\n After my short celebration I heard a crunch under my feet and looked down. I was stood on wine bottles, sadly long since empty.<\/p>\n Last remnants of a long forgotten bodega<\/p><\/div>\n A bread oven and a bodega, Miro’s seventy-four year old memory it seems, is pretty good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I arrived at the house this morning to find it totally devoid of workmen I hatched a plan that today would be the day that I investigate one of the last undiscovered places on the estate. I’ve been in … Continue reading <\/a><\/a>