A very brief catch up today, just a few photos from our trip back home. (Just to mention, as some other people have asked, we call the UK 'home' when we are in Bulgaria, but whilst in the UK we called Bulgaria 'home' too. Both are home, obviously!)
We had a great time in England. This time of year was the perfect time to visit as lots of friends were home to see family and everyone was in festive spirits! Also, the pub was really busy so we had plenty of work to do. Luckily work kept us busy for most of the time, otherwise we would have come back in debt, I'm sure! Annoyingly, we did feel that we didn't leave enough time to do some things we'd have liked to (eg. visiting friends in London or walking on the South Downs) but this trip was for making money, so that's what we did. There's always next time.
Once we'd got over the CRAZY prices (one pint for the price of 10 liters of Bulgarian beer!!!!!) we settled in and enjoyed ourselves. We drank ale and ate tasty Asian food, gourmet burgers and fish & chips. We rented 'Boris bikes' and rode along the seafront. We drank more ale. We went out dancing, went to a comedy club, to a gig and enjoyed the cosy pubs (and ale) as much as we could afford - all things we miss from home. It was lovely to be by the sea and to live in a city again, where you can just walk out and every thing's on your doorstep. Even the weather was nice for the majority of the time.
Christmas was a family extravaganza (my brother was also visiting from Uruguay - the first family get together in several years) and we caught up with all the grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins. NYE was spent boozing with our friends and on New Years Day we went for an ice cold dip in the sea!
We flew back home (the Bulgarian end!) on the 5th of January and arrived to find two extremely relaxed and well fed animals, some very happy house sitters and a spotless house - the cleanest it's ever been, I think! Strangely there was no snow and, as I've mentioned previously, there were even vegetables still growing in the garden.
Everything worked out excellently. The sitters even found and bought their own house in Bulgaria, so it can't have been too bad. :-)
So, that's all for today folks. Just a quick one to get us up to date.
Here's a few snaps from our trip back home (if you don't know already I'm sure you can work out which amazing city we are from! 😎) See you next time. xx
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| The beautiful pavilion |
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| Bike ride along the seafront |
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| The South Laines |
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| Walking our friends doggy (we missed ours!) |
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| Evening on the beach |
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| Fresh oysters and fizz |
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| Beach huts |
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| Fun fair in the park |
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| Beach days |
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This is a new addition to the city - the i360
(we didn't go on it) |
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| Our favourite thing - drinking ale in a nice pub |
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| Preston Park |
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| The North Laines |
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| Christmas day in Salisbury |
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| New Years Day swim in the sea! |
Dear Peter and Minty,
ReplyDeleteGreat post, as usual! I know Brighton quite well, as I used to teach in West Sussex, and I also used to live in Salisbury. Your post brought back a lot of memories.
Irena and I have just returned from the Philippines, where we had two lazy weeks of sunbathing, eating too much and occasionally swimming in the warm sea. Just a few more months and then we will finally, finally be leaving China and going to live permanently in Bulgaria. Hooray!
I celebrated our return to Shenzhen by posting SIX blog entries, so you need to catch up and post more often. It is always a pleasure to read your blog. Do you ever read Claire Ruston's "Auntie Bulgaria" blog?
I've read a few of your posts - your trip looks beautiful. Much nicer than the Beast from the East we're getting over here!! Yes, I read Claire's blog too, we've been in touch but not met (yet.)
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