by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 4, 2011 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
Word must have spread around the village that the English had arrived. On our last evening, a local guy and his son stop by touting for work. The son speaks a bit of English and explains that his dad is a “maestro with wood”. It’s a big old village, a few kilometres...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 27, 2011 | Bulgarian life
A day or so after arriving, we had our first exchange with a real life villager – in Bulgarian. We’d been out and returned to the house to find an old man letting himself out of our gate. “Er, hello. This my house.” I say in broken Bulgarian. “Ah” the man says...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 22, 2011 | Bulgarian life, House & renovations
For all you naysayers who thought I’d only make it a night or two without my creature comforts: I am delighted to inform you we did the full 8 nights at our house. In your face, naysayers! That’s right, 8 days and nights peeing in a bucket, washing in a bucket...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 6, 2011 | House & renovations
Very excited to be heading off to Bulgaria next week. We’ll be there for 10 nights, mostly staying at our house, and I can’t wait to see it again. Currently, the temperature is about the same as the UK, maybe a couple of degrees cooler. But I’m hoping...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 20, 2011 | House & renovations
Our basic ‘kitchen’. Last weekend we met up with some friends who also have a house in Bulgaria. With us still being in the UK, working and saving, sometimes the Bulgarian dream seems a long way off. So it was lovely to swap photos and...
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