The Bulgaria Adventures 4.1: EasyJet, SchmeezyJet!

Sep 18, 2019 | Home, Leisure, World

The next morning I woke up at 1:49am, full of anxiety about missing our flight! And then proceeded to stay awake until the alarm went off at 3am, diddling myself out of another 1 hour 11 minutes of sleep! The taxi to the airport was uneventful (about the only part of...

The Bulgaria Adventures 4.0: September 2019 Visit

Sep 17, 2019 | Home, Leisure, World

The summer passed and we watched the weather in Gradeshnitsa on our phone apps hit 34 degrees at times!! So we were actually relieved to be in much-cooler England, especially as the Bulgarian house has no livable rooms in the cooler basement until we can get those...

We’re Now Fish Parents!

Aug 31, 2019 | Pets

I’m almost 48 years old (gulp!), and have spent a significant proportion of my adult career working in the pregnancy and birth field. So I feel I really should have known this already. Or, considering I was working with humans and NOT fish, then perhaps...

Benedict Cumberbatch can’t say the word “Penguin” and OUR Benedict can’t say the word “Volvic”…

Aug 9, 2019 | Children

…but whose mispronunciation is funniest? There’s only one way to find out….! [We had a bottle of flavoured Volvic water tonight with dinner and tried to tell B what it was called. His mispronouncing of “Volvic” was ‘Volvic’...

The Bulgaria Adventures 3.9: Hot Springs and Cold England

Mar 21, 2019 | Home, Leisure, World

We woke up early the next morning and popped back to the local Billa we’d bought all our supplies from at the start of great expedition, to buy some food to bring home, plus a healthy breakfast of caramel waffles and hot drinks from the vending machine, which we...