by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 3, 2020 | Bulgarian life
This end-of-March snow was an outrage. We’ve had a snowy couple of weeks here, which has lent an ‘interesting’ new dimension to the whole self-isolation thing. We’ve been indoors for almost two weeks. No spending time in the garden. No popping to the...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 16, 2020 | Gardening bore
Another spring, another Gardening Bore entry. Christ, there’s a lot to do in the garden at this time of year, but we feel pretty on top of things this March. The veg beds have had a thorough weeding and a fresh layer of compost. We’ve sown the first seeds...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 3, 2020 | Bulgarian life
This is actually a pretty standard number of toilet rolls for us to have at home. Growing up in a big family, we constantly ran out of loo roll. Behold the mental scars. Nowadays, I get nervous if we have fewer than 40 rolls in the house. Being a fan of zombie...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 7, 2020 | Bulgarian life
Explorking: Verb. A portmanteau of exploring and walking. Basically a nonsense word we made up. This is what we’ve been doing with our afternoons lately. After work and a big lunch, we’ll use the last couple of hours’ daylight to go explorking the many...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 16, 2020 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
One of the many things I love about Sofia is how Vitosha mountain hulks beside it. We’ll often stroll down the streets and comment how unusual it is, in a capital city, to see a ruddy great mountain squatting at the end of the road. But we’ve never really been...
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