New Arrival

Well the lamb has turned up, only a day after we expected it, not bad for Bulgaria. It's grazing out in our field. Minty, as he is nicknamed, is running around and tried to escape, but there's no way out.
Been into VT this morning, a new CBA super market has opened, with another store next to it JYSK, a bit like Dunelm in the UK, and Technomarket are also there. Metro is due to open here very soon, the shopping is getting better all the time.
The weather is a bit overcast with showers today, we are told it is getting better for the weekend.

Lamb for dinner?

Lamb is very hard to get over here, mostly people eat chicken or pork, however I love lamb. It seems the only time of the year it is easy to get is for May 6th, St. Georges day.
So one option is to speak to a local person and ask to buy a whole lamb from them, the cost is around 3 Leva per kilo, but it is alive, so the dirty deed has to be done! who will do this? well I have found a man who says he will come and do it, then the idea is to get someone else to show me how to butcher it up, then next year I can do it for myself.
Sally is at home eagerly awaiting the new arrival, I hope she does not get too attached to it! Will keep you informed.
Anyone for dinner?

Veliko Tarnovo's big day

Well today was all set to be a great day out in Veliko Tarnovo. Every village and town have a special day each year, Veliko's day, March 22nd., is in celebratation of a great victory by King Ivan-Assen 11, over the Epir King Teodor Komnin in 1230. It's also to recognise the achievements of the 40 Holy Martyers who made the state.
So the stage is set, warm and sunny, just the kind of day to bring everyone out to have some fun. Yesterday, wooden arches were erected over the roads and decorated with flowers were put in place. Street traders, getting ready to set up thier stalls.
Then late yesterday afternoon, in the town centre an accident, killing two people, I don't have to full details as yet, but it appears that a house had been demolished to rebuild a block of apartments, the plot was cleared, but the site was unstable and there was a landslide. The celebrations, as you can imagine have been cancelled. The area is apparently still closed off.
I was hoping to place another page on my blog site to share with you the experience you would have if you were to move over here, or even if your lucky enough to be visiting here when a village has it's day, but alas, you'll just have to wait...

Tania Merccado Velazquez

Here I would like to introduce Tania, who is the person who I thank very much for this blog site. As I have mentioned before, we spoke about the idea and she took it and brought it to life.

Tania showed me how to continue updating the site, so I hope I can do it justice.

Tania is now well on here way back to Mexico, so all I need to say is thanks Tania, and good luck for the future. Remember your time in Bulgaria, stay in touch!

Thanks for the help

I would like to let it be known, to those of you who do not know how bad I am with computors, that I am very thankful to the person solely responsible for making this blog come alive. Tania Mercado Velazquez, Tania has been here in Bulgaria for about 6 months, on loan from Mexico. She takes a project and gets stuck in straight away, with good results.
I made the suggestion for this blog, she embraced it and you can see for yourself the outcome. Brilliant, thank you Tania.

This is the first day of the diary. We are sat in my office looking out at wonderful weather over the fortress. What a country, 2 degrees and snow yesterday, bright sun and 20 degrees today.