by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 28, 2018 | Bulgarian life
My ‘oh goody, ANOTHER power cut’ face. Just as VAR is fast becoming my favourite thing about football (the drama as the ref jogs off the pitch to look at that telly!), electricity is fast becoming my least favourite thing about Bulgaria. Today we had no...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 21, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
The garden is ramping up and feeding us regularly, despite last week’s epic storms. In fact, we’ve eaten (small) beetroot, (even smaller) courgettes and (lots of) tomatoes from the garden every day this week. Our early Latah tomatoes, and spoils from the first...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 14, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
I say ‘the storm’, like there’s been just the one. But we’ve had storms almost every day for weeks and weeks. It’s normal for this time of year in the mountains – we have beautiful hot, sunny days followed by stormy evenings – and we never usually mind. One storm at...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 5, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but it’s June. Already. June of 2018. Yesterday it was 1998 and I was sitting my a-levels, driving a knackered orange Fiesta with a broken speedometer, and planning an award-winning career as a foreign correspondent (or stage...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 23, 2018 | Bulgarian life
And so we arrive at the ragged, arse-end of winter. That time when the weather teases you saucily one day with sun and warmth, then slaps you in the chops with more snow the next. Last year this tiresome bait-and-switch behaviour went on until the end of April. Here’s...
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...
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