Trip with Joe around Svilengrad

Today we got up at about 08:00, to be ready to meet Joe at 09:30. Showering, sunscreen, breakfast, coffee, etc. Things take time 🙂 Quite precisely they turn into the parking lot, and we greet his wife Jessie, who Roar has emailed with, as well as their little daughter and her friend, who turned out to be one of our regular followers on YouTube, Maya. It is exactly what Maya, Joe and Jessie are doing in Bulgaria that we want to get started on. Follow the dream, gradually restore the house, dig in the ground, grow your own vegetables, see that it grows and can be harvested as short-distance food. Fantastic feeling of freedom. We follow several people on Youtube in the same genre. It is important for us to get confirmation that foreigners thrive and have a good time here in Bulgaria over time.
Roar didn’t realize that it was Maya who was sitting in the back seat, it went a little fast on this round of greetings. But Joe is going to sit with us in the car on the round today, and the girls were probably going shopping 🙂
Joe showed us all the places he thought would be suitable for us. The first house and plot were actually very good, but too close to the road. We are a bit picky, so the view is important to us, and the fact that the plot is a bit secluded and away from the main roads is also important. We also want additional land or agricultural land to have the opportunity to expand with animal husbandry. But not too far from a center either.
At the top of Joe’s village was a house that was not move-in ready, but could be renovated relatively quickly. Fantastically beautiful place, but not quite what we are looking for.
Joe is a really nice guy and the conversation was easy and free. Impressive what they achieve in Bulgaria. We dropped him off at the house he is renovating. With a saw and hammer, which he brought with him from one of the houses we looked at, he was straight to work on his own dream house. That view! Peace and tranquility in the soul.
In the evening, on Joe’s recommendation, we went to a restaurant located on the river bank and by a 16th century bridge, the Mustafa Pasha Bridge. Beautiful, just one thing to say about it. And lovely food.
Roar came into contact with the next table when he thought their child resembled Elias when he was the same age. And then the conversation started. That’s nice 🙂