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...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 20, 2017 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
We had family staying last week and their big wish was to go and see a Bulgarian football match. I’m not a football lover, as you might have guessed, but I’m up for anything that creates good blog fodder. And, as luck would have it, CSKA Sofia were playing...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 29, 2017 | Bulgarian life
Greetings from the UK, where this image pretty much sums up the state of affairs: Vape shop?? Vape? Shop? Only two more days then I’ll be back in the Bulg and hunkering down for winter. Which brings me to this epic post… Having got ourselves...
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