Apologies to anyone who is not from the North of England who may not understand the title of this post.
In proper English it means my head is full of so many questions that it feels like it's going to explode.
For the last couple of years maybe longer we have been aiming at getting to Bulgaria this has involved researching all we could. Joining numerous ex pat Facebook pages and Bulgarian forums. We pretty much eat sleep and dream Bulgaria.
Now that it's getting closer my head is in overdrive. I have so much running around in there there is not much room for anything else. Below are a few of the multitude of random thoughts I have on a daily basis.
TRANSPORT . We have a very small car ( Chevrolet matiz) my wife couldn't drive for a couple of years ( not in a drink driving banned way but she suffered from vertigo) so I sold my car and have been using hers. Do we go to Bulgaria in this do we get a bigger car, do we get a van, do we try and buy a left hand drive, do we take a trailer ? Question after question and I keep changing my mind current status is we are going to get a transit van but that will all change again.
RESIDENCY We need to sort this out when we get there , how long does it take, will brexit affect it will we have to do it before march, if not will we have to get a company.
AD HOC THINGS
will I get over my fear of snakes, how fast are snakes, can I run faster than a snake, if I can't what do I do ?
How many tomato plants do we need
What is a brassica
What does perennial mean
Where will I get my hair cut
Will I ever be able to understand the Bulgarian alphabet , let's be fair I still struggle with the English one
Will I ever be able to count past eight in Bulgarian
Will I ever like leeks
Will I be able to live in 40 degree heat.
What does a cube of wood look like
Will I cut off a body part whilst using a chainsaw
How do you make wine
What will I miss from the UK
does comfrey really smell that bad in water to make fertilizer
What books should I read when snowed in
Will I be able to get the ingredients to make a decent curry
Where will I get my blood pressure tablets from
What's the biggest snake in the world.
Will I wear out you tube and Google with random questions
Well in 7 months time we will start to find out the answers to some of these questions and we are looking forward to it so much.
Anyway I'm off to Google "what to do if a snake bites you"
Till next time
Take care
Thursday 26 April 2018
Saturday 21 April 2018
We bought a house.
Well we have done it. Last week the sale of our house went through. We are now the proud owners of a lovely house in a village in the Targovishte area but just South of Rousse (about 25 miles).
To say we are excited is an understatement it 's a major milestone in our move to BG.
we stayed in the house on our first trip to Bulgaria in 2016 as guest's . The house has a two bedroom self contained apartment above it which we stayed in as well as living accommodation downstairs. It has a renovated Barn and an outside kitchen with a wood burning oven and has 2000 sq metres of land.
Shortly after we stayed in it the house went up for sale but we weren't in a position to buy it then, but as I now only have a few months left at work and it was still for sale we have plunged in and bought it.I
It feels strange as we have been planning our move to Bulgaria for about the last three years and it's getting closer. We sit here saying " I wonder what we will be doing this time next year ".
When we decided to move we knew we could afford it but as we don't have a house to sell in the UK (we rent) we couldn't afford to get it wrong.
The house was for sale with an estate agent, but it was an estate
agent that had been recommended to us even before the house was for sale. We looked at houses with Monica the agent in 2017 so we knew her too.
So when we decided to buy this house we were happy to deal with Monica.
Her office is in Rousse and all the dealings were done whilst we were in the UK. This meant giving Monica power of attorney but she has done everything she said she would do and more she is a godsend.
I suppose the most unnerving thing (read twitchy bum time) was sending the money from the UK to my Bulgarian bank which Monica had control off, but all went smoothly, Monica even set up internet banking for us so we could see each and every transaction.
All that remains now is to figure out how to transport ourselves , our dog and two cats to Bulgaria bearing in mind we own one of the smallest cars in the world.
keep tunes in folks for updates
To say we are excited is an understatement it 's a major milestone in our move to BG.
we stayed in the house on our first trip to Bulgaria in 2016 as guest's . The house has a two bedroom self contained apartment above it which we stayed in as well as living accommodation downstairs. It has a renovated Barn and an outside kitchen with a wood burning oven and has 2000 sq metres of land.
Shortly after we stayed in it the house went up for sale but we weren't in a position to buy it then, but as I now only have a few months left at work and it was still for sale we have plunged in and bought it.I
It feels strange as we have been planning our move to Bulgaria for about the last three years and it's getting closer. We sit here saying " I wonder what we will be doing this time next year ".
When we decided to move we knew we could afford it but as we don't have a house to sell in the UK (we rent) we couldn't afford to get it wrong.
The house was for sale with an estate agent, but it was an estate
agent that had been recommended to us even before the house was for sale. We looked at houses with Monica the agent in 2017 so we knew her too.
So when we decided to buy this house we were happy to deal with Monica.
Her office is in Rousse and all the dealings were done whilst we were in the UK. This meant giving Monica power of attorney but she has done everything she said she would do and more she is a godsend.
I suppose the most unnerving thing (read twitchy bum time) was sending the money from the UK to my Bulgarian bank which Monica had control off, but all went smoothly, Monica even set up internet banking for us so we could see each and every transaction.
All that remains now is to figure out how to transport ourselves , our dog and two cats to Bulgaria bearing in mind we own one of the smallest cars in the world.
keep tunes in folks for updates
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