by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 16, 2020 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
When life gives you lemons (and orange cordial), make (orangey) G&Ts. Then re-use the lemons. I’ve always been a bit competitive about food and drink. The number of times a waiter has looked at me in a restaurant and said, ‘Are you sure you want to order...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 3, 2020 | Bulgarian life
This end-of-March snow was an outrage. We’ve had a snowy couple of weeks here, which has lent an ‘interesting’ new dimension to the whole self-isolation thing. We’ve been indoors for almost two weeks. No spending time in the garden. No popping to the...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 3, 2020 | Bulgarian life
This is actually a pretty standard number of toilet rolls for us to have at home. Growing up in a big family, we constantly ran out of loo roll. Behold the mental scars. Nowadays, I get nervous if we have fewer than 40 rolls in the house. Being a fan of zombie...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 7, 2020 | Bulgarian life
Explorking: Verb. A portmanteau of exploring and walking. Basically a nonsense word we made up. This is what we’ve been doing with our afternoons lately. After work and a big lunch, we’ll use the last couple of hours’ daylight to go explorking the many...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 16, 2020 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
One of the many things I love about Sofia is how Vitosha mountain hulks beside it. We’ll often stroll down the streets and comment how unusual it is, in a capital city, to see a ruddy great mountain squatting at the end of the road. But we’ve never really been...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 7, 2020 | Bulgarian life
White trees on a snowy walk. Happy New Year to you, dear reader. And welcome to Auntie Bulgaria 2020, which will no doubt be pretty much the same as Auntie Bulgaria 2019. Cats. Snow. Wonky stuff in the garden. The usual. So how was it for you, the whole...
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