by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 8, 2011 | Bulgarian life
I mean, beautiful, but also pretty terrifying. Early readers will remember that, sometimes, Bulgarian roads can be a little scary. I preface this story by saying that most of the roads in our area are perfectly fine. Just not this one…. One day...
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 | Mar 29, 2011 | Bulgarian life
We are now the proud owners of two tickets to this music festival! I’m very much looking forward to some big-time Bulgarian festivalling. As well as The Great Bald One Moby who is headlining, they’ve announced Skunk Anansie are playing. I know them, they...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 17, 2011 | Bulgarian life, House & renovations
We’re heading back to BG for 10 days in mid-May. The plan is to clear out some of the furniture/junk that we don’t want and make some room for work to start. We also want to spend some time with Max and the builder to discuss plans and get a proper quote...
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