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Today I started with going to the supermarket to baying some common foods, egg, bacon, butter, juice etc and of course ketchup. 🙂 It tasted very good with the bread that Jorunn sent with me. Also a glass of Norwegian strawberry jam. It’s not easy to find the type of jam written in Bulgaria. But…

Today, Roar went to Solnik alone to take more drone photos and put a padlock on the door to the mill. Jorunn stayed in Byala and had a ‘relaxing’ day.

Today we are excited because we will meet some of the sellers who will show us electricity and water connection to the house, as well as get the keys so we can access the farm for the rest of our stay. We are talking keys from 1958. Not exactly approved by Norwegian insurance companies. It…

On Wednesday 25 August, there was a meeting with Advokat Tsvetan in Varna. Review of the tenders that had been received for construction in Solnik. Eve came as an interpreter and it was nice to meet her again. Roar had to go to the bank to gain access to the online bank in Bulgaria again….

After a very nice meeting with Vanja and her family on the farm in Solnik, we drove together to a local cafe in Byala. There we eagerly chatted about our plans for Solnik Garden. Think they like our plans 🙂 Both of their boys spoke good English, so then the language was not a problem….

After a late breakfast we went to Solnik again. Anxious to open up the landscape around the houses. The thorn bushes is a challenge for legs and arms, so I mostly drag the trees that were cut down last autumn out till the truck coming on Sunday can bring them away.It is not very nice…