by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 12, 2016 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
Things we did in Sofia last weekend: 1. Soaked up the beautiful buildings and atmosphere. Sofia is at its best when the sun is shining, and I can happily wander for hours just taking it all in. 2. Ate lunch at Made in Home: peach and goat’s cheese salad for me,...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 20, 2016 | Travel & trips
Achingly smug holiday-related post alert … don’t say I didn’t warn you. We’ve just got back from a splendid 10 days on Thassos. 10 days! On holiday. In the sun. With no rain. If you’ve never been to Thassos, you should go. It’s a gorgeous place with pine-covered...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 16, 2016 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
‘Oh, you live in Bulgaria?’ says a random stranger. You can guarantee the next thing they say is, ‘Anywhere near Sunny Beach?’ ‘Er, no.’ I’m allowed to slag off Sunny Beach because, unlike most Sun journalists, I’ve actually been there. When we were thinking of buying...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 20, 2015 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
Sveta Nedelya Church, Sofia Moving to a Bulgarian village is like moving to the 1950s. In our village, they could easily film one of those TV programmes where people live like Victorian farmers or Tudor doctors or something: everyone knows everyone, chickens...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 4, 2015 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
As it’s been so long since I last wrote, I shall attempt to summarise the last six months in 200 words. Ready? August 2014: Catastrophic rain and floods in Bulgaria. We go to the beach for five days. It rains. I get the shits. It rains some more. We come home....
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 29, 2013 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
I bloody love the beach, I do. I love the way the wind troubles my hair. (A too-short bob in summer is a bad choice, what I wouldn’t give for a ponytail!) The constant watering of my left eye. Those little pimples I get after days of sweating under factor 50 sun...
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