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Thank you, we so love that house, but onto new pastures and adventures soon!

In Oryahovitsa, between N. Zagora and S. Zagora.

Thank you, we thought it might have Romanian influences.

Hi, and thank you 😀 We only have experience of Yambol and Stara Zagora regions, which are both lovely areas to live. It's generally hotter south of the Stara Planina mountains, so this may be something to take into consideration but you will want to be thinking about how close you want to be to a town, the seaside/mountains/airports.

Haha, thank you. 😃

Hey! back to you 😃

Thank you for that, glad you liked. We've just put the 3rd renovation on, definitely our favourite home for sure, and we miss it a lot. ruclips.net/video/ISoc9310JJw/видео.html Hope your visit will be lovely and productive for you!

Thank you. Yes it was a lot of work, but didn't cost so much back then and we were getting nearly 3 bgn to the £ so could afford a builder. Sadly things are different now so we will need to be less frivolous (no wraparound verandas lol), and do more of the work ourselves. Good luck to you in the spring!

We actually saw the house many months before but couldn't locate the owners, and then a Bulgarian came to us to ask if we wanted to see a house for sale, couldn't believe our luck when we saw it was this one. 😀

@NewBulgarians meant to be! 😊

Thanks! There are loads of videos on the channel bringing our journey up to date, and we will continue updating our new journey back to Bulgaria as it happens so to speak. 🙂

Thank you.

Thanks, it was a lovely house to live in.

Oh hello, thank you for checking us out, your channel looks interesting, wow so many videos to get through!

@NewBulgarians welcome

Thanks! Unfortunately, too much work, but we can't wait to get at it!

Happy New Year to you too!

Thank you, and a very happy new year to you both too.

Thanks! It was such a humbling but also enjoyable experience seeing happy faces. We were glad to help.

Hope it works out for you, takes a bit of practice/patience but they're nearly as good, and will fill the gap when we can't get them in Bulgaria.

Thank you so much, merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too.

Cheers bud.

Thanks Karen!

I'm sure Wales won't notice a bit ;)

Thank you for letting us know Nadya, we will keep practicing! Have a wonderful time.

Hi Jim, Nikki here, Darren said you've been writing - that's great we're in touch again!! Glad you're enjoying the catch up. Thanks for your comments and support, appreciate it! Have a great Christmas and happy new year to you and yours. 😊🎄

Thank you, we still aren't sure what to do for the best - we will decide once we are living there and can get a better look at what we're working with. Thanks again.

Hi, we already have our residency permits from 2011 - but for a few years after the Brexit vote took place while we were still living in Bulgaria, and even after we left in 2018, neither government was talking (publicly) about what would happen to us - we were concerned we might have our right to live there removed and lose our house so we took the decision into our own hands and sold up. Obviously a couple of years after we moved back to the UK, we found that wasn't necessary, but we didn't want to take the risk at the time due to the lack of clarity on the matter. We renewed our residency cards this year and are looking forward to returning again.

Thank you so much!

Thank you very much!

Thank you :)

Haha, Darren is always distracting! You and Lynne both appear very level headed and tidy in everything you do.

@NewBulgarians That's down to creative editing!

That was the first thing I made for ivan after moving here as he missed them. They are time consuming and a faff to make lol hence why he doesn’t get them often 😂

@@teresamanley8284 They are surprisingly time consuming and faffy yes, so probably will be made in big batches for the freezer, although I will have more time there, unless the gardening takes up too much time.

Thanks - Bulgaria truly is special.

Thank you Karen 😄

Hiya Aron, thanks for your comment which is a great idea, however, we are planning on it only being for a month tops, in fact hopefully it will only be while we have the place re-wired, as once that's done we think we will manage. Well that's the hope anyway 😉We'll see.

Hi Donna, thanks so much for your support and interest. Not exactly sure which video are you wanting to see, but if you check video no's 13, 15, 16, 19, and 22-25 these are about the property, with no 13 filmed the day after we viewed the property. Thanks again.

@@AnneLangley-xm5mv yes we will, hoping it's soon.

Hi, wow where to start! Thank you so much for all your thoughts/advice, which has given us some good pointers and food for thought. 1. We're now also looking at lighter materials to fill the void such as expanded clay or something like limecrete if available in Bulgaria. 2. I'm not sure where you're from, but the UK doesn't have citizen cards as the 'people' reject that idea, but we think it's a good idea as Bulgaria does it for everyone including foreigners, and they come in handy for when doing anything official, anyway, the cards we meant were our Bulgarian permanent residency cards, which we got when we previously lived in Bulgaria between 2006-2018, and had to renew this year as they had expired. 3. We love the idea of rainscaping and ponds etc, but you are right about mosquitoes, and I (Nikki) hate mozzies as I get a severe allergic reaction sometimes when bitten by something, not sure if mozzies or biting flies, or something else. But anyhow, you are right, we do want to avoid that situation so will definitely take all you've suggested into account for sure. We will do videos of our progress, just wish we were already there to start. Thanks again, you have been most helpful.

Oh dear, this decision has just become more complicated. Never heard of this method (though we're not builders so not surprised), but will look into it, can I ask does your advice come from experience please?

@@NewBulgarians I'm not a professional builder either, but I've got some experience with this kind of project. The crew that renovated my previous house used this specific method that I suggested. Just keep in mind, there are multiple ways to approach this. I'm was mainly concerned about the idea of using concrete to fill the entire space previously occupied by soil. We're looking at around 15-20 cubic meters of concrete per floor, which seems like a lot. My main hesitations are: will the house structure support that weight, and won't this create serious moisture issues? It could end up being pretty expensive and complicated. Have I understood your plan correctly, or am I misinterpreting something?

Hi again, thanks for getting back to me. We were looking to take out all the wooden beams and loose soil, to leave compacted soil below (we assume) then put down a damp proof membrane, and either replace the beams or fill with concrete. This will be on the ground floor only, the other floors are wooden and we're happy with them as they are.

@@NewBulgarians I would still strongly suggest researching about the dry floors (keramzit (expanded clay), perlite, etc). It is easier, cheaper, lighter and provides better insulation. You would still need to address the moisture problems though. However you decide to handle it I'm sure it will make a great video! :)

@@razorSH we are doing as much research as possible from the UK, but we don't know what materials are available in Bulgaria, apart from concrete and wood of course. Hah, yes possibly will be a video, but not for some time yet. Thanks 🙂

Haha, we agree it can't come soon enough! We have viewers so fingers crossed. :)

Hi Donna, yes that would certainly be possible to work for so many months and flit between the countries if required; we know of a few people who do exactly that and it seems to work well.

Thanks Mike! We would have liked to keep the old windows but they were too bad and inevitably we would have had to get UPVC in a short time because of the cold extremes, they do make a huge difference.

Thanks again Mike, hoping it is not the dreaded dry rot but definitely something we need to be certain of. We believe the floorboards are like this because they were covered with a layer of screed and then a thin foam moisture barrier/insulation and then laminate, and we assume the property has no DPC . Although the room has damp/mould on the walls, everything is very dry. We will remove the render and treat the area, and we're definitely leaning towards concrete. Thanks for your advice.

Hi Steve, appreciate your comments, that sounds like a good plan.

Hi, thanks for the feed back, never heard of Visqueen until now so have googled it ;) You have the best of both worlds I guess being between the UK and BG.

@ visqueen is the U.K. brand name. After reading more comments I noticed that you have cinders between the wooden beams… our front room had cinders & sand with beams with HARDBOARD on top…needless to say it hadn’t lasted long. We got rid of all of the wood, and we got stuck in and concreted the floor ourselves. Best wishes. Paul & sue.

Hi again Paul & Sue, thanks for getting back to us again. The wood and cinders/soil whatever it is will all be coming up and hopefully we will be down to compacted earth. What we do after that we're still unsure. Did you put down a damp proof membrane/rebar before concreting?

@ we didn’t put any membrane down before concreting and we’ve had no problems

@@stanevolodge thank you :)

Glad you have had some rain, not too much though :)

Yes, we keep telling ourselves that lol hard to see the reason yet but we're sure it will become clear eventually. Thank you :)