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Thank you both for all this years fabulous content and for all the help, advice and support that made our journey possible. Until we meet again for beers

wow at that incredible monument, an incredible feat. Agree - it's wrong and just - why?!

See you soon! We shall miss you!❤

Thank you for showing us these things. Otherwise I would have never seen them.

Skvělé, tak zajímavé! Díky za vaši zvídavost a smysl pro humor. Líbí se nám to. Jaký svatý na palubě vašeho auta vás ochraňuje a hlídá:-)? Pevné zdraví přejeme z celého srdce!!!

Safe onward journey home, see you next time! 😊

This is my grandparents' village. It used to be lively, but the last 20 years have been unkind to all small villages throughout Bulgaria. Fidel Castro passed through once.

I love Soviet-style monuments! Where are you guys from?

Yeah, it annoys me, too. Young people nowadays do not know anything about the past. Or they know, but do not want to care. Freedom is taken for granted. But it had cost millions of lives. After the WWII, Russia was left without men.

Vždy tak zajímavé! Skvělá práce! Jste vtipní a velmi sympatičtí. Narodili jsme se do komunismu v ČR a tak víme, že monumentálnost pomníků válečných hrdinů vždy odpovídala významu, velikosti hrdinství a vděčnosti přeživších. Vážíme si zemí, kde tyto pomníky zachovávají i když není dost financí na jejich důstojné opečovávání. Díky že sdílíte tyto svoje návštěvy!

Take spare wheel out on long journey, saves messing about, if you have puncture.

My ex Croatian girl friends Granddad was a resistance fighter back then, did get captured and taken to a camp in Italy... he and his mate managed to escape and they walked back to Croatia to their village! Good result proper wild camping lol!

Don't know about you guys, but we always feel so sad unscrewing the fuse (which is upstairs in our house) locking the gate and driving off with the house in the rear view mirror. The weather has been pretty good in Wales this week (makes a change).

Zdravíme zpět do Anglie! My zůstáváme, obdivujeme vaši odolnost na cestách a umění poradit si v každé situaci! Je velmi inspirativní vás vidět! Postel v autě je naprosto dokonalá! Bravo! Ty schody k řece v kempu by byly mmůj konec🙂! Ať vás neopouští zdraví!

Aww, shame we missed you while in Stara Zagora, isn't that monument something. Lovely garden, and Ant's crocs. 😉We wish we were there. 😊

Yes, the original Samara flag is in Sofia, kept under glass at a certain temperature. This monument was built in the early 1970s. Therefore the style of the monument is communist brutalism.

Happy to see you am from Kenya

The mayor's English is terrible but still better than the English of the Bulgarian mayors, which is Zero. Very hospitable, though, very nice!

There are Black Vultures in Greece, also in Bulgaria now too :) The little shrines are known as Kandylakia put there for lost loved ones, or survivors. We've seen them in Bulgaria also. LOL re: the coffee machine airbnb peeps do seem to like them, we always ask for a kettle.

The little prayer houses are either to ask for a good crop, or if on the side of the road, where a death has occurred.

Ahoj, zase tak pěkné video! Máme totožné zážitky, zajímavé! Trhat broskve přímo ze stromu je tak vzrušující a nové! Máte pravdu - smetana je tady vzácná. Našli jsme trvanlivou ale velmi dobrou v LIDL od značky Pilow v krabičce někde zastrčenou mezi olejem a moukou:-). Kéž by mi to někdo prozradil před rokem! Hodně zdraví!

To be honust i loved bulgaris and planned to retire out there but that was one thing that put me off the water supply and electric power cuts in the villages we stayed out there for a week in a lovely bed a breakfast but had no water for two days out of that week and can imagine in the extreme heat it wont be comfortable xx

LOL we know how exciting it is to have a shower after our stay at our house without one or hot running water. We can't wait to visit Greece as we're only an hour from the Greek border so we're watching with interest.

Interesting video Ant and Dick, thanks for sharing. Still don't understand why we're having so many issues with our Akaso sound and yours sounds great lol.

If you think Greek mythology is weird, try out Indian mythology it's insane.

The water situation here in Bulgaria scares me and when you look at what is happening further up stream at the Danube and its source from the rapidly thawing glaciers that feed it, I do wonder what the future holds. The water table here in Bulgaria as told to me back in 2010 (by an Engineer who drills boreholes) has fallen by a few metres and as he told me back then, nobody knew why. My village has never had mains water and I had the money to sink a 30 metre deep borehole, some others have shallower boreholes, but most rely upon Well water and the two springs at each end of the village. The first spring dried up two summers ago and the second spring this summer as early as mid June. My neighbour with a shallower borehole than mine can run the water for 5-10 minutes and then has to wait for it to replenish again. Numerous other villages are without water completely or on an enforced regime of mains water as determined by the Mayor however, the towns and cities do not suffer shortages, the hotels continue to water their lawns on sprinklers, the car washes work and the swimming pools are full. The biggest consumers, I should guess are the grape and other fruit growers, these are big business and can afford to sink really deep boreholes which must affect the underlying water table. There is no doubt that as modern conveniences come into Bulgarian village life with indoor plumbing, washing machines that we consume far more water that we ever did. The majority of local villagers grow their own produce and obviously require water for it to flourish, but I do not see sprinkler systems or running hosepipes, usually a watering can. People make demonstrations, the blame is placed upon climate change and an archaic delivery system. We don't need downpours, we need Biblical steady rains for 40 days and 40 night type scenarios as heavy downpours just run off and evaporate. I haven't witnessed a real winter here since 2009/10 when the snow was a metre deep at my 220 metres above sea level albeit, a rapid thaw, again causes flooding and run off and evaporation. I don't think that we are being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the underground aquifers, but it seems obvious to me that we have to be more conservative with our water usage as people and not simply take it for granted before the reservoirs run completely dry and we are desalinating the sea and being charged petrol prices per litre. How uplifting was that - sorry. No worries, some expert will put me and the world to rights. 😉

I love the translation game. Firstly, the Museum is undergoing roof repairs that should be finished in October, but as usual here, it doesn't state which year. 🤦‍😉 Google translate is limited and sometimes should be taken with a pinch of salt, but never relied upon for important translations where Bulgarian is concerned. The sign, Българино, знай своя род и език is NOT know your gender and your language. It comes from old Slavonic Patriarchal writing in a book of 1762 by Saint Paisius of Hilendar. (you can google him). He was basically saying to Bulgarians 'Know your RACE (heritage, genes, fatherland etc.) and your language. In modern terms, I'd guess he meant, be proud to be a Bulgarian and show it - perhaps as I'm neither a historian or a translator. I'll comment on the water as I view more of the video.

Wouldn't the electric company come out and take down the branch? EVN used to do just that in the 2 villages we lived in before. Like you, we have loads of piles of wood all over the place, and will have loads of twigs from trimming trees, and other wood from demolishing various 'buildings' in the yard eventually. Lovely gate, well done. Yes there's always little jobs to do in Bulgaria 😁 Wow how handy to have the spring so close, shame there was no water though.

In my hometown they also paint some buildings, but this is much better. www.google.com/maps/@42.8895108,26.4439643,3a,75y,340.48h,95.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZ7ELAW415qLUDqcUuDn0Mg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

We pray for heavy snows that could fill in the rivers, the lakes, and the reservoirs, and also very importantly - to be able to have an abundant ski season.

"...the deceased Pena,Tsona and Dena" 1818. That was on one of the stones. So, three women lay there.

So do the owners of the reservoir need to dig it out to expand the capacity of storage so when through the winter months it can acheive a bigger store for the summer? Answers on a post card..lol

Yous put out good quality material.

It's that time of year again and in currently at the house in BG so I'm doing the same. L&R from us at #GBtoBG .

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Great video content . Impressed by the dustbin on a trolley

Impressive wood cutting, transporting and stacking skills! Looks wonderful 🥰 Watching with a glass of the guv'nor 😘🍷

Absolutely beautiful ❤and that's just Ant 😂😂😂

Thanks for the street art. I will visit that village. So interesting.

Just a bit of garden envy going on here in the UK x😮😂❤

Bulgaria is so rich with history, that I think guys You couldn,t pick better country to have travel! And i have to say: Anthonia is like walking enciklopedia!

A nice house, in a approximately good condition and is in a nice place near the extraordinary town of Veliko Tirnovo. Be happy!

silky saw pole saw is the job for such branches...

Hi - as someone also from Dorset, who has lived on the outskirts of Sofia for a handful of years, I noticed your channel. My wife and I have driven a few times back and forth to the UK, so it was interesting to see your route and experiences. I'm not sure if your going to be spending winter in BG, but if your not living in a flat in town then you need to be prepared. You need lots and lots of wood for the cold months, several cubic meters isn't out of the norm for us. We've got a 4x4 and don't live in a particularly rural location - the snow plough isn't always regular; and snow can easily turn to ice. So plan to be sometimes cut off; that includes the occasional electricity outage. That comment about preparing for winter food makes sense - but if it was me I'd simple go to a supermarket and buy some good quality Лютеница first :-) Enjoy your time in BG.

The bathroom in that apartment is really nice and for a change has the shower with a door and away from the toilet. LOL you dress as safely as Darren does when doing 'dangerous' things. 🤪

hihi did you learn,how to prepare zimnina(winter food),lukanka,liutenitca,kompoti and so on hihi,is verry healty food

lovely to see you with the family x

Absolutely loving your channel 🥰

what a lovely property ❤

How lovely you have some help in the kitchen Toni 😊 Great to see the family there ❤ enjoy xx