Or, the perils of buying things in supermarkets when you don’t speak the language. Looking for frozen chicken in the freezer and I found something called “трътки пилешки”. Пилешки means chicken, and it looked like pieces, so I bought them. Turned out to be a whole packet of parson’s noses. Yummm, chicken arseholes boiled with…
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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…
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Signposting in Bulgaria is like nothing we’ve ever seen before, but the Bulgarian way is apparently common in Europe. Instead of a signpost pointing to the nearest town, and having other destinations along the way marked, signposts usually point to either Ruse, Sofia, Varna, Burgas or Istanbul. You’re expected to know which direction you want…
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Bulgaria is about the only country in the world that shakes their heads to say yes, and nods for no. This causes much confusion for foreign travellers! In Kalofer we had been trying to buy cigarettes from small shops. We’d gone in asking for them and they said something, and shook their heads, so we…
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