I love the bodega. The one I used was at the winery where all the local vineyard (vinedo) owners took their grapes to sell.
There would always be lots of bottles to be sampled - and you took your own 5 and 10 litre plastic containers to buy the wine straight from the vat. Fabby.
Ah yes Ethel - such memories, when I moved here (Spain) in 1971, we used to buy wine and sherry from the barrel. Very cheap and very potent. Little old cave like bodegas, not many left now.
500 � a month? that's incredible, A small studio goes for that here. I am looking to move to the mainland, but somewhere Spanish with not a lot of Brits (if any) - it's so much cheaper on the mainland!