Our final day in Bulgaria dawned and so we began the sad job of packing and putting the house to bed for another winter. We also wondered if we'd have TWO pushchairs to take back home and so worked out a plan as to how we would manage all the luggage if that were the...

We took it easy on our last full day in the house.  We'd worked hard and it WAS supposed to be a holiday too, so we spent the day pottering in the house and garden. Ian was keen to use the new stepladder we'd bought to have a look in the roof spaces of the house and...

Sometime during the night, B did his regular bed swap and it was just as well he did! Because a couple of hours later, he woke up and cried "I need a bucket" before being sick all over himself and our bed, poor little boy 🙁 I called for Ian, who had had to migrate...

The next day B slept till 8am! Ok, so it was 6am UK time, but looking at the time and seeing 8am felt glorious regardless, as it's often 5 or 6 something on the clock at home! Today, we'd planned for a couple that Ian had befriended and added on Facebook, who lived in...

Another day of trying to get the garden cleared a little bit, AND finding out we weren't the only Brits in the village (Little Britain reference!). A week or so before our holiday, I'd gone onto Facebook and searched for 'Gradeshnitsa House' to find the Facebook...