http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/YZ/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from YZ en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:16:44 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:16:44 +0000 UPDATEThe land clearing phase has just ended and as you can see from the photos the property is actually taking some form now. Both older houses have been completely demolished and all that is remaining are some rocks used for walls and base from the smaller old house. The rock pile has grown considerably and my back is thankful that this work is finished for now.Our friendly backhoe operato http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-420628.html The beginning of work on our property....The pictures and captions tell most of the story. Thus far we have mostly been cleaning up the land a bit and demolishing the main old house. Our friendly neighbour Gregor agreed to help us in return for the old wood from the house which we didn't need anyway. He put 5 days of hard labour in for us and in return got a huge stack of wood for his stove a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-414014.html