The People! WOW what a surprise!

I am going to sound like a complete snob now and am so very happy to be proved wrong. It was about a preconceived idea I had about the expats I would find living here in Bulgaria!

Now, as you know we have lived on the Costa Blanca for nearly 17 yrs. Don't get me wrong it has been a great place to be and we have some amazing friends there, that we miss loads.

The one thing we didn't do was to mix with a certain type of expat. We did in the early days get invited to pool parties where the drinking went on into the wee small hours and we did love our local bar in the village to watch from the outer circle so to speak! But the true friends we can count on one hand, the ones who we had many other things in common with, not just cheap vino!

As Bulgaria is even cheaper to live in than Spain, I really did expect this place to be full of that type of person. I did not expect to actually find so many amazing, educated, artistic, friendly, kind, helpful people, you get the idea!

I am going to change the name of some of the people as they are shy! lol But they will know who they are and I hope they find the funny side!

"Demi Moore"lives a stones throw from me the village, she makes me laugh as she says she also does not mix much with outsiders and was quite upset when I said I wanted to encourage my friends to come and buy houses in the village! She is a petrol head like me and is well traveled! Great friends from the off and rushed straight over the first night with free cutlery as we only had plastic from the van.

Demi's super wheels called Brian! 

We love to swop stuff instead of making exchanges of cash, mountain bike for white wine! Sounds good to me. Really glad she is on the doorstop and I hope she is not too pissed off that we are in "her" village! Her partner in crime is cool too and we have already enjoyed some very chilled evenings on our porch! Oh and they have a dog with a silent bark! just my kind of dog!

Ivo the Bear! Charlie introduced us to this gentle giant as someone to come and help us in the garden. He is like a bloody machine and has done all the horrible heavy duty work getting the garden more livable! One day he did tell Rich off though. He had gone food shopping and I was moving really heavy stones around the place, he has given off telling me to put stuff down as I think he now knows I will not listen to him! No English spoken and our Bulgarian is zero, so drawing on paper works wonders!

Ivo "the bear""

I was going to rename Sue Hagan but she is way too cool to care! I have been following Sue on facebook for years now as she is a Cob guru and Natural Home Builder. What I did not know at the time, was that she is also a Bowen Therapist. I had my first treatment this week and although I was not expecting it to do anything to help my neck and back issues, I am happy to report that I do feel better! Watch this space.

Queen Sue

Next person to mention is Blake, now do I change his name and if I did what would I call him! Steve Mcqueen, yeh I think he will like that! He is the "man who can" and was a super star when it came to the rescue of the horses even though we didn't know him from Adam! He is a really lovely bloke with a facebook persona that is nothing like the gentle soul he really is!

Blake the "man that can"

Without meeting Blake, we would not have met the amazing Evelina, she was so funny dragging me around the village to chat to the locals about the internet! At the moment she lives in the UK but cant wait until she comes here very soon!

Last one to give a special mention to is Audrey who is a genuine angel! Living in the next village she is like a little "ever ready bunny"! I am helping her with the media for her really lovely guest houses that she rents out and she is also a Bowen therapist. So happy to call her a friend and looking forward to spending more time getting to know her!

So, what is the point of this thread,apart from saying a massive thank you to the people that have a special mention!

The point is I don't think, no I know, I have never lived anywhere with such a concentration of interesting people. One of them said you had to be a little mad to come to Bulgaria, that was Barb, who if I didn't have a mum I would ask her to adopt me!

So many creative souls all in one place is a super nice surprise. I am thinking it has something to do with the country itself and why we are here, not because its super cheap and has great weather but because it is a country that to me feels like it is breathing! Sounds daft but who cares! Come and visit us and see what you think!!!!