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Drying Clothes Outdoors

It only takes a couple of hours to dry clothes outdoors in 30 Celsius weather.

Best of health, naturally, on holiday,

Nina

September 12 in Sofia

You can immerse yourself into the culture of another country at various levels when you travel:

emigrate and work or study there;
buy a home (a holiday home even) and live and work or study there;
live in someone else’s home and work or study there;
pay for where you live (e.g. a hotel) and work there;
buy a home [...]

Lunch at Grand Hotel Sofia

Lunch at Grand Hotel Sofia’s Restaurant was rather dull. Too much metal decoration & the poorest shopska salata in Bulgaria. Expensive too!

Best of health, naturally, on holiday,

Nina

Great weather in Bulgaria

The weather in Bulgaria has been great the last 10 days – 30 Celsius and no rain – perfect for a holiday; lousy for farmers.

Best of health, naturally, on holiday,

Nina

September in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a country of contrasts. What country isn’t? To start with Bulgaria is one of the two most recent entrants into the European Union. Some Bulgarians are pleased with this step; others are disappointed. The ones who are pleased believe that association with forward-thinking, industrious capitalistic countries will bring Bulgaria forward. Those who are [...]

September 10 & 11 in Bulgaria’s Balkan Hills

Today, we were due to set off to Koprivshtitsa first thing to stay overnight, but we were already suffering from what we originally thought were the effects of overeating yesterday – Tuesday – both lunch and dinner were meals out. Too much good food. Soon, however, we realised that instead of being the result of [...]

The Site – a great Internet cafe

The Site is a great Internet cafe in Sofia, Bulgaria, at 45 Vitusha Boulevard, between Gladstone and Solunska. Open 24 hours. Reasonable $.

Best of health, naturally, on holiday,

Nina

September 6 in Molak, near Sofia

Today, we set out to travel more than an hour east of Sofia to stay at our relatives’ country cottage in a small village called Molak, near Godech. Molak means “buffalo kid.” It’s about 40 kilometres from the Serbian border.

The car was loaded with groceries, but still we stopped at a supermarket called Billa. What [...]

September 6, evening in Molak

On Saturday evening, while in Molak, about 40 km northwest of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, we had an outdoor barbecue. We were outside and so was the television, on a very long cord, so we watched the Bulgarian qualification game against Montenegro for the right to play in the European Cup in two years’ [...]

Soccer in Bulgaria

Bulgaria has World Cup-standard soccer fields so the Scottish and Netherlands teams came here to play Macedonia: 0-1 and 2-1 respectively.

Best of health, naturally, on holiday,

Nina