Found your channel this morning and really enjoyed it. We have lived in Bulgaria full time for about 3 years although bought the house 13 years ago. Was a holiday home now our permanent home. Will look forward to seeing more videos.
That is amazing! Thanks for your kind words, Yes, we have been a bit slow lately because we were getting the garden ready for winter and did not have time to make new content. We will be back with more content soon.:)
I have just come across your channel. I am learning Bulgarian. It wailed good to get your perspective of how your learned Bulgarian as foreigner. Thanks
My wife is a Bulgarian.. I can read Bulgarian pretty well, learned the alphabet on my own. But speaking is really difficult because I can't wrap my head around the grammar as yet :). If people speak slowly I can understand a lot of it, but I am nowhere close as yet to start speaking it in everyday life. That said I am using a few books to try and learn it. The process is slow because we speak English at home because the kid needs to improve her English skills.
You have a lovely home and the village is perfect! The dogs have a great place, too. I live in a warmer climate here in the USA, but we do get a little snow and plenty of low temps in the winter. I'm tired of the long periods of heat, but don't want the long winter months like where I grew up in Michigan (USA). Bulgaria seems perfect, and especially affordable.
Yes, Rightly said Kim. The best part about Bulgaria is the fact that you can pick a region as per your choice of climate. Nearer to the Black sea coast the winters are not severe at all, they see snow probably for a few day through the season. At the same time the country has snowclad peaks across three mountain ranges, beaches, forests and not to forget healing hot water springs.:) Affordable? Yes but a significant margin I would say.
Sir the way you shared your story here reminded me of the Photography classes you used to take back in NICC. So glad you are settled far away from India and happy with the family. Convey my regards to Ma’am aswell. Best wishes to all of you.
Thanks for your reply. I have tried to read it up a little . Maybe the " renaissance " you mentioned refers to the stuggld for an independant Bulgarian church with its own encephalite. ( Previously part of the Greek church at Constanstnople.) This deems to have been completed in the 1870s , so I guess new church building in that sort of period ( 1858 in this case) might seem logical. I would be interested in anything further you discover.
Yes it seems C19 th Bulgaria had a renewal including in wider society, e.g. introduction of universal education. It was the world " Renaissance " that made me think of C16th western Europe.
I just stumbled on your channel. You've found a lovely place. I've been a few times in Bulgaria as my wife is Bulgarian. I also was in Varna which I liked. We had a nice fish dish at the shore. And of course shopska salad. I can recommend anyone to visit the country as Bg has a lot of ancient treasures, beautiful nature and old villages with traditional (partly) wooden houses. Most of all I like the people. They're open, warm and helpful.
I am interested in the hurch , délicate to St Petka Paraskava. You say built in 1958 but the tranqcript writes 1858. Which was it? You sau also " during the Rennaissance period."What and when was that? Was there some sort of " renaissance" in Bulgaria? To me the term " Renaissance " makes me think.of 16C th history in western Europe, e.g. palaces in Italy, châteaux in France , Tudor period in England. How often is the church in the village used for the Liturgy? Thanks.
Yes , when recording I mentioned the incorrect date , so I corrected it in the transcript. About the Renaissance period I will research more with the village elders and a few books. The church is open to pray for people on Sundays and the father visits on all the religious holidays.
The renaissance in Bulgaria began half a century before the one in Western Europe. For reference, the frescoes in the Boyana church. Unfortunately, a little later the country fell under Ottoman rule, which set it back 500 years.
@@twotravelersstory I have no idea, but there are many clips on RU-vid with Bulgarian history. We ourselves currently have a major problem with a piece of history related to our origins.
@@kalinxristov1654 thanks for that very helpful znd interesting information. I am interested in the Renaissance. But in fact hete he was talking about something else: à period of renégat much more recrnt!
Hi guys, I just stumbled across this video and found it pretty interesting. Not sure if I could handle that snow though, how cold does it get in winter ? I live in London and would love to buy a place with about a minimum of 1 acre with a massive barn , with maybe a river or stream running in the back of the land, but not sure that I can handle the - degrees temperatures that I hear you get over there in Bulgaria. Out of curiosity are there a lot of blacks or Asians in your area, or any single women ?
Hey Mark, Glad you liked the video. We have been staying here in this village for over three years. The coldest that I have seen is close to -9 degree C. But with the winds at times it does creep up to -12,-14. If you are looking for warmer places you will have to search closer to the coast. It snows rarely and the sub zeros can are less frequent. I haven't come across a lot of blacks personally neither a lot of Asians. But yes as far as I know there are groups on Facebook which have been created for single people in villages to meet. Never been to one myself though.:)
Hahaha, I am sure people in Varna might be wondering about the exact thing :) Thanks mate, we will keep making them and soon diversify to a few different subjects if everything goes right.
Depends on how you look at it :) . It could increase the investment in the country. I haven't seen a lot of Bulgarians too enthusiastic to take on village life. If that was the case.. most of the villages should have been populated by now . What's your take on it? Why the reluctance?
@@twotravelersstory The youth have been brainwashed and seduced by western consumerism and moved to the west, which itself is dying and being colonized and overwhelmed by migration waves. Nothing good will come of it for the Europeans.
