Things

Not the most original post name I know but below is a list of things we did/saw/thought/said/liked/disliked etc etc etc during our two weeks in Bulgaria.

1 number of flies swotted 24583
2 number of times we said WTF is that bug 1508
3 number of times we said ITS TOO HOT 36
4 number of times we said IS THAT RAIN 6
5 number of fires we had in the garden 1 for 13 days
6 buckets of sweat sweated 9 (if you move an arm you sweat, if you cough you sweat)
7 weeds pulled out 548376299
8 lizards seen in the garden 8
9 bats seen 5 or 6 a night
10 fireflies seen 1 a night
11 stars in the sky thousands (its amazing)
12 beer drunk lots
13 wine drunk, more than the beer
14 mozzie bites too many
15 Skoda Fabias are crap cars (we usually get a clio much better)
16 number of brambles that wrapped round my leg in garden 250
17 number of brambles that wrapped round my leg in the garden that i thought was a snake ready to bite me 250
18 snakes seen in garden 0 but i just know there are thousands in the jungle waiting for me when i get my strimmer.
19 snakes seen 1 but it was dead on the road, phew.
20 wasp nests we have 1 will be gone in the winter
21 bulgarian tools are crap, i bought some secateurs and hedge trimmers both brok
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22 donkies heard 1 every day, eeh aww eeh aww ehh awways brayed (sorry)
23 there are lots of chickens
24 restaraunts sell chips chicken pork,pizza and chicken livers never anything else.
25 if you order chips they come 20 minutes before your meal.
26 Bulgarians are really friendly people
27 its difficult to buy two drinks in our local bar for more than a quid
28 our local bar is also a shop
29 english people spoke to in 2 weeks 4
30 snakes i thought i saw in the garden 478

Crap Skoda Fabia hire car

This little guy was dead thank god

My left leg got mozzied big time, sorry for the Eric Morcombe shorts in shot

A blue Bulgarian drink

Dont wear ankle socks before going to the pool

Lovechs answer to weatherspoons this is a great bar overlooking the river, run by an old lady who must be 90 everything was 1 lev and it was busy, away from the posh part of town. If I lived in Lovech this would be my local.

The toilet in Weatherspoons, at least you didnt have a 2 mile walk
and 4 flights of stairs to get to it

Thats all for now see you soon.

We are back in reality

I cant believe nearly two months has passed since I last wrote a blog post. It seems we have been waiting to go to Bulgaria for what seems an eternity and unfortunately we had to fly back to the UK on the 19th July after two fantastic weeks there.
We flew out on the 5th July and Easy jet deposited us on time as is usually the case, at Terminal 1 Sofia airport. We picked up our hire car and headed for an overnight stay in the town of Lovech.
it was late afternoon when we arrived at Lovech and we were hot and tired after checking in it was time for a beer, as we sat in the bar area outside we got talking to two guys Kiaren and Ken who were brothers in law and on their first trip to Bulgaria and had been there about 3 or 4 days and had just bought a house in that region.
So after a couple more refreshing beers and a chat about all things Bulgarian and how bad England is we got cleaned up and went into the town for a meal.

The following morning we had arranged to meet Monica our estate agent at 11:30 am at our house, but we were that excited we were awake about 5am so set off early for the 3 hour drive to our village.
We got there around 10 am so I gave Monica a quick call to see if it suited her to come any earlier and she was already on her way and was about 30 minutes away.
Monica arrived and we got to access our house for the first time.
The house is already renovated and we had had half the garden strimmed before our arrival courtesy of Monica.
What I hadn't expected and I dont know why was the amount of cobwebs dead flies and spiders that were in the house. It has been empty for about 16 months and is in the country side so why shouldn't it be cobwebby (if thats a word)
It was like a house that had been dressed up for halloween inside but it was ours.

A small cobweb !

There were some strange looking bugs and insects inside

                                                         Just a selection of insects

It was to battle with a vacuum cleaner and a couple of hours later the upstairs apartment we have was spick and span and liveable in so we decided to call it a day on the cleaning and live in the apartment whilst we cleaned downstairs which had more cobwebs in it.

We popped to the nearby town of Opaka which is about 5 miles away and stocked up with some food, beer and wine (beer and wine being the essentials) and that night we sat outside eating and drinking listening to the crickets and watching bats fly around the garden and firelies flashing their bums with the sound of the odd donkey braying and chicken making chickeny noises and the odd village dog barking before crashing out after a long day.

Our House next to the not strimmed land affectionately called THE JUNGLE

THE JUNGLE !!!!

What will be our veg patch

View up to the jungle

The road outside busy busy 

A selection of more weeds for removal

View over the middle garden to the village

hire car on drive , even the outside needs weeding

An 80p bottle of wine I know its expensive but we splashed out on a housewarming drink.

Rush hour

I will end this post here and update further in the next few days as my tablet seems to be having a mind of its own 

Take care see you soon