Today it was a short working day in Solnik. It’s too hot to work in the middle of the day, so we plan to get up early and work before the sun goes too warm. Before driving to the apartment we went on a safari ride down to the beach north of Byala. It was…

Tonight we invited the Vanja family to ‘Norwegian Taco’. A little skepticism at first but eventually they become familiar with the taste and it goes away. We brought most of the raw materials from Norway except minced meat and salad, onions etc. The guys just loved the taste eventually, which we know the youth likes…

We got up early when we were going to Varna to meet цветан (Tsvetan), our lawyer, and Здравка (Zdravka), a lady who will help us get approved building plans in Solnik. To our great delight and surprise, Eve was a translator. Very nice to see her again. The daughter of the broker Dobrinka who also…

The trip today went to Plovdiv about 32 miles from Byala where we were to look at a used car. Roar had done research in advance in Norway online so that we knew which dealer carries the used car brand we were going to look at, Dacia. But Roar, who has a habit of postponing…

Then the mower is in the box. At the local hardware store, we were the first customers to buy Stihl. He had just become a dealer, so braces, earmuffs and visors were common with the purchase 🙂

Drove a trip to Solnik to see how it was. It was really overgrown. No sheep or horses have grazed there this spring. In return, the honey bees grazed over the uncut meadow. This means that we have to go and buy a mower, and the local hardware store was visited. Luckily he speaks English…

We arrived at sunrise to a beautiful pink sky. We are currently alone in the complex where we have the apartment, and I have already taken a morning bath. Roar has taken the job as ‘pool boy’ First summer in the apartment and we have 5 weeks holiday to enjoy. 🙂

At Gardermoen before departure. A month’s holiday ahead of us.