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As we knew the boys would have to be sat down for two hours, for the drive from the house back to Sofia, we took one last stroll down the road to the village to give them time to stretch their legs. We also did some more photographing and videoing of the house and...

Our last full day in the house ☹ After breakfast, we went for another walk down into the village, and found a millipede and a stork's nest high on top of an electricity pylon. These are apparently so common in Bulgaria that the electricity companies actually build...

We didn't record much that we did today, and my memory trying to recall 15 months ago (yes, I'm actually writing these in June 2020!) is very hazy now! We had another walk down the road to the village. We took lots of photos of the trees in the garden to try and...

We heard woodpeckers in one of the trees over the road first thing this morning, which was a lovely sound 🙂 It really IS so peaceful here, which feels like such bliss when you have sensory overwhelm from too much noise! One of the things we'd planned to do on our...

The next morning was much warmer and sunnier than yesterday, and after the usual breakfast of coffee, cereal and milk again, Ian, Alex and I set off on an adventure! We'd come up with the idea of looking around the abandoned house over the road to see if we could find...

After a pretty cold night, when we woke the next morning there was frost on the ground outside! Ian. B and I got up and dressed, grabbed a coffee to warm us up, plus a bowl of cereal and milk, and left the big boys in bed whilst we went for a stroll up the road to...

It was with a great deal of excitement, and not a little anxiety, that I woke the next morning. I was so looking forward to seeing our house again, and really excited to spend our first night in it! But also, as a parent responsible for keeping 3 children warm and...

The journey up to Gatwick was uneventful but we were very unimpressed with the 'official' taxi booth there. Booking a taxi through them to get to our Travelodge cost £15, so when we did the return trip back to Gatwick at 4am the following morning, we prebooked through...

Back home again on the Isle of Wight, and we were keen to get another trip booked as soon as we could! This time we also wanted to take the two older boys to show them the house and give them another foreign holiday too. We hadn't taken them last time as we'd figured...