This week I was lucky enough to have to "forced" days off work. Well, not really off work since I still had to respond to emails & phone calls, but two days where I couldn't actually visit any clients. So I did what any girl with a free rental car & a love for discovering new things did - I went exploring.

First up on my list was visiting some of the Troglodyte cave dwellings. It's been something I wanted to do every since seeing it over on Amy's blog almost two years ago. It's quite ironic though to see the comment I left there, saying how I was going to try to get Fab to take me in Spring 2008...ie when we broke up. Either way, I'm glad I finally made it.

I saw a sign for a site with 2 Troglodyte farms located about 5kms from where I was staying, so after breakfast one day, I headed off to check it out. I had the whole place myself, and thus spent a few hours making checking things out and making my way through all the different rooms.

Here's what it looks like today:And in around 1900, just before the farms were abandoned:The caves really were like mini-towns underground. There was a room for everything - sleeping quarters, kitchens with bread ovens, stables for the animals, and even wine-pressing rooms.I also found it really neat that all the rest of the houses in the village also had their own troglodyte caves underneath. You could see that some people where using them for storage:And others had turned them into apartments or gîtes:If I'm ever in the area again, I'll definitely be checking one of them out - anything has to be better than the hotel where I stayed!