Finally, after what seems like several lifetimes waiting, it’s looking like we’ve sold our house and will be off to Bulgaria this week. It’s been a roller-coaster few months, deciding how to get there and what to take, as well as riding the waves of “We’re so excited to be going to a new life”…
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Day-to-day diary entries
Natural plastering DVD
One of the skills we’re certain to need to learn is plastering. Most of the houses we looked at in Bulgaria use a natural plaster, developed from locally sourced clays, and bound with straw. We have backed this Kickstarter project to help a Canadian, Chris Magwood, produce a DVD showing the range of techniques he…
Read moreLanguage classes
Started our Bulgarian language classes yesterday, in Wigton of all places! I’m looking forward to getting to grips with the language, and being able to write a bit too.
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Day 12 Iskar Dam to Sofia
For our last day we thought we’d better take a look around Sofia. We had a street map with carparks on it the problem was it was all in Cyrillic. If I had been given the map at the start of the holiday there is no way I could have navigated us though the busy…
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Day 11 Dragizhevo to Iskar Dam
We left Dragizhevo with a bit of a heavy heart as the realisation that our holiday was coming to a close finally hit home and we needed to start heading back to Sofia. But on the way we wanted to have a look at the area around Lovech so made a slight detour north before…
Read moreDay 10 Exploring the area around Veliko Tarnovo
Today was spent exploring the area around Veliko Tarnovo and making notes on the various villages we passed though before heading back to the campsite. We still had no idea where we wanted to finally live but we had decided by this point that it would be north of the Stara Planina (Central Balkan mountains)…
Read moreDay 9 Plovdiv to Dragizhevo
After a comfortable nights sleep we decided to shower before setting off on our travels. We were a bit surprised to be given a key to one of the cabins near by, to use the shower there. There was a list of prices in the cabin and I was really taken a back on how…
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Day 8 Elhovo to Plovdiv
Our visit to Chris and Val marked the end of our scheduled meeting and property viewings. Our last week in Bulgaria was completely our own. We decided that we would like to revisit some areas we’d been through, but first we wanted to visit the city of Plovdiv before heading back north to Veliko Tarnovo….
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