East Meets West

by JaneNo Comments
Coming from the UK we are naturally, or maybe trained to be, nostalgic about all things….from places we visited as a child, to meals our mother used to make, but for those of us that drive I would like to bet that the majority of us feel some affection for our first car. This is not something that our friends here in Bulgaria are big on and I'm not sure if this is sad or not. Having lived here for a number of years we see the old villages starting to empty as the older generation pass away and the younger generation make the move to the bright lights of the city for university, friends and careers. This is sad because there are many houses left uncared for, but also great for us foreigners looking to change our way of life as there are still many bargains to be had. It was one such Brit (Neil Penn), driven by a desire to remove...
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Cold Turkey

by Jane8 Comments
No this is not the story of what we did with all that turkey post Christmas, or about me stopping class A drugs, but rather about my radical decision to spend an entire week without going on Facebook. If anyone had asked me, prior to this experiment, what that would be like, I'd have shrugged my shoulders and said 'no issues, I don't spend that much time on there anyway'. Well that is not quite true! By not going on Facebook this week I have noticed a couple of things: 1. Just how much time I actually spent on there and 2. Just how hard it would be not to… I documented each day to understand how this affected me and so I would realise just how much of an addiction this had become, this is the story of my week living outside of social media. Day 1 My old routine of logging into the 'world' first thing in a morning became blatantly obvious as I...
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