The Abandoned Village of Theletra - Part 1
Published 10th of December, 2019
Very Overgrown
The building appears to have a tree growing out of its side.
Kitchen Sink
Sinks like this can brighten up your garden. You can fill them with compost and grow veg in them. However, there is no way I am dragging this through all that undergrowth, and down the staircase. It is way too heavy.
Theletra Heights
This is as far as I went. I wonder if that telegraph pole is still in use? If it is, it must be a bugger to maintain.
There is a lot more to Theletra. But in order to get there, we are going to have to go back down to the main road. I know that there are some more buildings behind the church which are definitely unihabited, so that will be our next port of call.
Back To Life
We've returned to civilisation now. In the next blog, which we will publish in a day or two, we will go bushwhacking beyond the church to some more ruins. We will unearth an old school, complete with aged exercise books. We will risk fig pimples in order to bring you a report from the far heights of Theletra. And we will visit the abandoned cemetary, to pay our respects to the departed souls of the old village...
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