Busting a Gut in Bulgaria

I'm in a small town of Veliko Tarnovo which is surrounded by a deep gorge and a huge fortress nearby. The town itself is situated along this gorge and reminds me a little like Shimla in India. Best of all, they like to eat big here in Bulgaria. Note to self, don't order flat bread, salad and main of mushroom pork chops. Each is practically a meal. The flat bread turned out to a medium pizza and the main was three prok chops, mushrooms and enough dripping cheese to feed a pack of rats. The Bulgarians make exceptional pizzas for about 3 or 4 bucks, all fresh dough in wood oven. Their indiviual pizza is like a medium back home and about 30 to choose from and yes, you can get tuna fish with pepperoni.

The English have invaded Bulgaria. Apparently, they are heavily buying property in Bulgaria as you can pick up a house for about 4500 Euros!!!!! But you need to fix that house. The English seem to like to retire, sell their property and get the heck out of England. Bulgaria is there number one spot to go as it is cheap and Spain and France are too expensive. They are also hoping to invest as they anticipate once Bulgaria enters the EU, house prices will jump. Some of these English a buying multiple houses just for this reason alone. It's funny here but it's not the seller who pays the 3% commission to real estate agent for the sale but the buyer. Unfortunately, this is causing the housing price market to shoot up and the average Bulgarian only makes just over $100 a month and way over their budget. Sound familiar?

The Bulgarians seem to love the Russians here and view them as liberating them from the Turks (although they still love eating kebabs here). Apparently, Bulgaria even had a vote to join the USSR. Hardly anyone speaks English here so not having much contact with the locals but plenty of the English here and there is the love of footbul. The World cup is on every restaurant and bar. Go Brazil Go.