Dinner at Vanja’s

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…

Today we are invited to Ulla & David at Tarator. Bulgarian yogurt soup and Banitsa that David has made himself. Fantastically good and very refreshing in the heat. They have a cat with three kittens who have adopted Ulla & David every time they come. Every year with new kittens. Incredibly charming. We get a…

Today has been a busy day in Varna. Not much of a 17 May celebration, other than these nicely-dressed girls from Asia somewhere. Instead, it was many hours in the office of lawyer Tsvetan, translator and notary. But we got a break where we walked a bit in the pedestrian street in Varna, ate at…

Saturday 4 September At 10.00 we were in Phelnik where Vanja and the family live. They had planned a weekend trip with accommodation to show us different attractions. We drove approx. 4 hours to Etera in Gabrovo. A place more like a village museum that shows Bulgarian traditions. Buildings and crafts. Furthermore, we went to…

Now that we have got the key to the ‘office’ we can start storing things there. So today we went to Solnik to collect the ‘treasures’, that is, old things we found in the houses. Old glass, vases, ceramics, hand-woven rugs etc. We brought it home and washed it for years of dusty conditions. Four…