It’s all change in Yambol as Galia is out of hospital and at home recovering, the operation was completely successful although she will need quite a time to recover. Needless to say she won’t be starting work for at least another week possibly up to three weeks. I won’t allow her to go back unless she is fully recovered. The weather has changed from – 18 C to 0 C during nights and reaching +12 C during the day.
Having had a couple of days in Skalitsa, having a whale of a time sorting out an iced up farmhouse, I return to Yambol late Sunday evening. The following morning we were without water again! No freezing temperatures, just a normal occurrence, we knew it would be back on in the evening and it was Ivo and I tossed a 20 stotinki coin to see who took a shower first – he won.
Ivo had recently acquired a new friend, which he said was going to live with us. We thought, ah ha, at last he has a girlfriend, but it was with great disappointment that when he brought his friend home it turned out to be a buck rabbit named Donatello. The disappointment didn’t last long as the rabbit now has the free run of the house and we discussed that fact that a rabbit is cheaper than a women and certainly much less of a headache for Ivo. It is a great concern of all of us that one day as the silent roaming rabbit will wander and that Baba will eventually accidentally sit on him!
Rabbits aside, our neighbour the priest has his house up for sale – we were gob smacked at the value he is putting it up for. Almost the equivalent of £100,000! Fair do, it has been done up really nicely with all the modern fitting you would find in a modern westernised house and a garden that is mainly lawn, but for that money it is only Mafia or foreigners that could afford it. It is not typical of a Yambol town house, it is as if it had been done up for a foreign buyer with no vegetables or other garden produce being grown. It has been observed and documented before in this blog that priests in Bulgaria are astute businessmen so perhaps it is no surprise that the home was perhaps a business enterprise for this holy man.
Finally, back to Galia, it is great to have her back home again and to be quite honest we both feel quite lost without each other.
An interesting read!
ReplyDeleteDonatella seems to hv put a big smile on Galia's face or was it u ?*wink*
ReplyDeleteDonatella also reminds me of the ninja turtles (cartoon series)- hehe. It used to make me laugh at their silly antics. I'm sure the rabbit would provide some amusement to u all as well.
So how much do u think that property of the priest should be worth on the market right now ? I was amazed actually, as I thought priests r required to give up all worldly goods when they take the call to serve ?
erhm .. sorry I wrote Donatella instead of Donatello *blushes*
ReplyDeleteIt's a boy then ?
Lovely wifie.
ReplyDeleteHope she gets well soon
I am convinced that some of them( priest,monks , pastors, bishops ) have , $ signs in their head from time to time , but I am oh so thankful, when from what ever religon we are from , they bring a word of comfort and a prayer for our well being and peace of mind, in our time of grief or saddnes.
ReplyDeleteAm so glad Galia is home and doing well. Malcolm
Priests here, certainly the lower order priests make money form the chuych, much out of donations from church-goers. They have wives and children and need to support them like anyone else.
ReplyDeleteA house here is worth whatever someone wants pot pay for it - from that point I can't see many interested unless they buy knowing nothing about how the Bulgariam housing market works. (Bulgarian price their houses according to how much they need rather than the 'going market rate.'