Memories

Today I decided to explore the hiking opportunities in the area around Solnik. Solnik is not far from the Balkan mountains that separate the border between Varna and Burgas. I knew this had to be a suitable place for hiking, but I did not quite know where to start. Not much hiking is recorded in…

Today we meet in Solnik Garden at 08:00 and an excavator and a lorry showed up just after. They meet at agreed time :-). Vanja and Galin also come soon after. We need a translator between us and the work person. After driving away all the harvest from last fall, which we have already drawn…

Finally eggs and bacon for breakfast. Roar has been waiting for it 😊, especially now that we are going to drive about 20 miles(200 km) to Svilengrad. Then it’s good to have some food in your stomach that lasts for a while. Svilengrad seems like a sleepy town. Either it is too late in the…

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…

Finally trip to Bulgaria with Elias

Today we started out with our family from Bulgaria to an island outside Burgas called “Saint Anastasia”. This is a boat trip of about half an hour. Halfway through the trip we could see a small island that was our destination. The first thing we noticed at landing was an anchor that was turned upside…