by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 3, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
The stormy season seems to be getting longer every year. When we first came to Bulgaria, there’d usually be a stormy few weeks in May – lovely warm days, then these great crashing storms in the evenings. Then, within a couple of years, the storms started creeping into...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 21, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Secondhand & fashion
One of my favourite things to do in Sofia (besides all the eating and drinking) is go to the big Magazin Mania second-hand clothes shop, located in the basement of the covered market (Central Market Hall). It’s even better when we take family and friends from England...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 20, 2019 | Bulgarian life
You can prepare for moving abroad in lots of practical ways. Brush up on the language. Plan a new business or some other way of earning money. Give all your crap to the charity shop… One thing we weren’t prepared for – and it sounds really dumb to say...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 2, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
I’ve always been happy calling anywhere ‘home’. Bulgaria is ‘home’. England is ‘home’. Anytime I stay in a hotel or Airbnb for more than a night, I start calling it ‘home’. So, yes, I’m home (in Bulgaria) after my long trip back home (in England). The cat gang missed...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 18, 2019 | Bulgarian life
Greetings from the UK, where, surprisingly, the sun has been shining aplenty and nobody (that I’ve seen) is having angry debates about Brexit on public transport. Weird. I’m here for most of April on a long catchup with family and friends, so there’s not much to...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 3, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
Like a lot of Brits here facing the prospect of no-deal Brexit tomfuckery, I had to drag my arse to the KAT office in Sofia last week to do battle with Bulgarian bureaucracy. But, on the plus side, it was all over within 30 minutes (my personal best for a KAT visit)....
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