by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 28, 2021 | Bulgarian life
We’ve had a couple of lengthy power cuts in the last week. We seem to go through phases where we have no power cuts for months, then we’ll have days or even weeks of frequent disruption. Long-time readers will know my frustration with this. There are the...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 18, 2021 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
The snow has finally returned to Bulgaria. Which is handy because I was getting really cheesed off with all that brownness. Brown trees. Brown muddy lanes. Brown garden. Brown paw prints all over the kitchen floor. Brown village river (it’s been raining a lot, which...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 7, 2021 | Bulgarian life, Secondhand & fashion
I just don’t want to write about COVID-19 and the misery of UK lockdown. For one thing, we’re only semi-locked down here in Bulgaria and life, at least in the village, continues pretty much as normal. So I can’t even begin to relate to the struggle back home, and I...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 4, 2020 | Bulgarian life, Secondhand & fashion
Yes, it’s no longer autumn. In fact, it’s very snowy and festive here in Bulgaria. But because I took a two-month break from blogging while the site was being redesigned (which actually only took the designer a matter of days. The rest was me fannying around), I...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 23, 2020 | Bulgarian life
Looky here. Instead of giving myself something made of tin – the traditional 10-year anniversary gift – I gave myself a new website instead. (What the hell kind of anniversary gift is tin anyway? What tinny item could possibly articulate, ‘I love you, babe. Thanks for...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Sep 4, 2020 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
Back in bleak old January, we booked a little something to look forward to for August – a week in a small guesthouse in Sinemorets. By March, when we went into lockdown, we were already resigning ourselves to the fact that we probably wouldn’t go. By June, much...
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