In 2007, Angelo was in the woods in Worcestershire, UK when it started to rain. He looked for a place to keep dry and he found a rock-house! The rock-house was 800 years old. People lived in the rock-house for hundreds of years, but from about 1962, no one lived there and the house stayed empty.
Angelo liked the rock-house very much. He bought it in 2010. After that, he started to cut into the rock and to rebuild and modernize the house. Angelo finished the house in nine months. He was a businessman before he started the house, and before 2007 he was quite ill, so he wanted a place where it was possible for him to live in a happy and healthy way. He realized that he didn't need to live in a huge apartment. He thought ____▲____.
He worked for over a thousand hours from beginning to end, and he used ￡160,000 to buy the house and all the things that he needed. He planned everything himself, he moved about 80 tons of rock himself and he painted the house. Angelo tried to make a comfortable place to live. The house has electricity, hot water and wi-fi, and there is heating under the floors of the rooms. Angelo opened a deep hole 80 meters under the house to get natural water. The house is not huge. It is about 65 m2, with one bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom with a shower.
Angelo doesn't live there all the time, but he uses the house as a place to go to sometimes, to get away from his busy city life. It's also possible to rent the house and to stay there for a weekend or more. This means that other people are able to enjoy Angelo's happy house and maybe escape from their busy lives for a few days, too.
