Renovations

Our house has been altered, added to and modernised many times over the centuries and this blocked-up doorway is one of the signs of change. The only dates we're sure of are 1807, carved into a beam in the roof, indicating when the second floor was added, and the early 1970s, when it was bought by a pied noir family forced to leave Algeria for Paris after independence and who wanted a summer house near to the Mediterranean to remind them of home. This was the family who sold the house to us six years ago. When they bought it the cave, which had previously been the home of a horse and cart, became the kitchen we use today. Bathrooms were also added then. This ground-floor doorway was probably part of the original structure dating, we think, from the 17th century and built into one of the phases of town wall as it expanded from the earliest, 12th century, remains that can still be seen.

On the top floor today the latest change is almost complete....maybe it will be tomorrow.

This is the first time I've posted a RAW image and converting it to jpg seems to have removed the EXIF data:

ISO 200, f5, 1/1600, 70mm

I've still got a lot to learn.