We got invited to the pensioners club meal, a bit strange as we are no where near pensionable age but what was there to lose. 7 of us piled into a car and arrived in Popovo for lunch and an afternoon of singing and dancing. There was wine supplied with the meal but pretty soon…
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Day-to-day diary entries
Things that go bump in the night
During the day our new house is delightful, even in the morning fog. But once the sun drops over the horizon, and darkness crawls up to the house, it can sometimes seem a bit creepy. During the day the garden is alive with birds, but the night-time is the domain of things that rustle alarmingly in…
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A taste of winter
We’ve had our first little taste of winter this weekend, with falling temperatures and a covering of snow. We’ve had it quite light, folks up in the mountains nearby have had a lot more than us! Still, it’s really helped us to see what the winter months will bring when they arrive properly. It seems…
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Visitors from home
We have had our first visitors from the UK this month. My Mum, Jenny, and my step-dad Alan came to see us. We’re not really ready for visitors to stay, so we booked them into a little hotel in Popovo for their three day stay. We were both quite nervous about our first guests; how would they…
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A trip to Shumen
We took some Bulgarian friends to Shumen today, so we had the opportunity to visit the ‘Monument to 1300 years of Bulgaria’, which sits above the city on the Shumen Plateau. You can see the monument from miles away as you approach the city, and it dominates the landscape, like so much public art from the…
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October update
We’ve just realised it’s been ages since we posted anything, so this is a broad update on what we’ve been up to! We’re now officially resident in Bulgaria; we got our residency ID cards, and the car is now registered on Bulgarian plates. We were so pleased to have the help of Yonko, our advocate,…
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Excellent! Aged just 9 weeks, Fog has caught his first mouse. He’s currently enjoying playing with it in the garden.
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The killing machine
Welcome to the newest member of the family, Fog. We got him on Saturday from some friends nearby, and he seems to be settling in well. He’s a very affectionate cat (a bit too affectionate at times!), but seems to have the killer instinct. I gave him a mouse that I’d caught in the mouse…
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