As we were sitting, generally lazing about, yesterday afternoon, Melek, despite his poorly eye, got very excited all of a sudden and started barking at the long grass next to our pitch. Experience has taught us Melek only gets excited…

I awoke at 3.30 am, as I often do, and noticed on my phone that there had been a terrible bomb attack in Manchester. Our eldest son and his girlfriend live in Manchester and so I was immediately worried and…

After we had wandered into the local village of Dragizhevo we finished yesterday on the terrace of Camping Veliko Tarnova’s restaurant. My first draft beer since the ferry from Italy to Greece two months ago went down very well, followed…

Bulgaria’s weather has been very kind to sun lovers in the last 24 hours. We had barely finished our pea and potato curry outside, when lightning filled the horizon and by the time we had gone to bed it was…