Bran Castle, where no Dracula can be found
13 May 2012 in Romania
“Oh, it is wonderful! I am a big Dracula fan and it was great!” – her wrinkled lips extended into a wide smile, as she stepped around in those black ...
Trips and Travels
They have gone nuts again
It is quite possible we have left bits and pieces of our gray matter along the way. There were some rather bouncy bus rides. I think half of it might ...
My birthday gift
9 May 2012 in Romania
Big moon, big laughs, big meat. This was the motto of my second birthday on the road. With the years I have become less and less fussy about this day, ...
Across the Friendship Bridge and over to Bucharest
5 May 2012 in Romania
Hello, Romania!
Reports I read online before we left, all talked about how the only bridge over the Danube between Bulgaria and Romania, can take hours to cross due to heavy ...
Pizza in our frontier house in Sliven
30 Apr 2012 in Bulgaria, Food on the road
“Livin’ in Slivin” was fun. The city will hardly make it to a tourist brochure handed to visitors to this country, but we are not one of those. We are ...
Orthodox Easter in the foothills of Old Mountain in Bulgaria
23 Apr 2012 in Bulgaria
Quite unplanned we stopped in Kalofer, the birth place of one of Bulgaria’s national heroes – Hristo Botev. A poet, but more so a revolutionary, he features brightly in our ...
Meet the sixth member of our family
18 Apr 2012 in Bulgaria
“Do you know how much we paid in that fancy restaurant in Amritsar?” calls Mr.Blab from the other room.
“I dont know…$30?” I am not really interested in the answer, more ...
Kalofer snippet
15 Apr 2012 in Bulgaria
Our home for a few days. I cannot stop looking at those blossoming trees everywhere. If you were wondering, most of them are plums.
Koprivshtitsa – hard to pronounce, easy to take in
14 Apr 2012 in Bulgaria
Early spring has awakened the vegetation in the folds of the Middle Mountain where Koprivshtitsa is tucked. A place that has a special place for Bulgarians. Walking into house after ...
Matt Damon vs Snaps&Blabs or how we got more media coverage than him
5 Apr 2012 in Bulgaria, The Big Trip Now
“You have more pages than Matt Damon!” exclaimed Mr.Blab after flicking through the latest edition of Grazia magazine. There, tucked in the later part of the publication, are three pages ...
