by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 7, 2018 | Bulgarian life
There’s a walk from our house that goes up above the start of the village to the tiny hilltop hamlet where our neighbour grew up. Long ago, everyone from this hamlet (I say ‘everyone’ – we’re talking about six houses) moved down into the village and the place is now...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 28, 2018 | Bulgarian life
Don’t get me wrong, a mild winter is very welcome, especially as the previous winter was such a long one. But we were starting to feel a bit cheated by the lack of snow and brag-worthy cold temperatures. So you can imagine how pleased we were to finally get a decent...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 19, 2018 | Bulgarian life
We did a lot of walking last summer and autumn, prepping hard for our Rhodope walking holiday. I mean, we’d always enjoyed a little trample in the mountains around us, but last year we started to take it really seriously. We became far too familiar with our nearest...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 23, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
It’s been a really mild and easy January so far. We’ve only got about three inches of snow on the ground from yesterday’s snowfall, the first snow of 2018. The road is pretty clear. The temperature is hovering around zero when we get up in the mornings, which...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 8, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
Food wanker I mean, I hate to be a dreadful food wanker, but just look at all the lovely things we ate and drank over the festive period. For the last 11 years, Christmas dinner has consisted of turkey and all the trimmings. This year we went all Scandi: beef...
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