Patricia


Recently Irena and I had our first guest to stay at our house in Daveri. Patricia is a dear friend from IBC, the International Baptist Church of Sofia. I collected her from the coach station in Veliko Tarnovo and we stayed overnight at our apartment in VT. 
The next morning, Patricia and Irena did the obligatory visit to Tsarvets, the huge castle on the other side of the Yatra River. On the Monday we went to Daveri. 
What did we do? Well, not much. We went for a walk with Tina around Palitsi Dam and then a wander around the old part of Elena, but most of the time we took Tina for walks in the countryside around our house in Daveri, had some nice lunches and caught up on news. Irena and Patricia also watched a few "chick flicks", aka girlie films like Julie and Julia, Florence Foster Jenkins and A Good Year. 

For the benefit of Patricia's husband, Suhail, we also made another video of yours truly chopping firewood. (Although we have missed this year's Golden Globes, we obviously have high hopes for the Oscars.) Despite popular demand, here it is.




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