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