17th July, 2005
I have been trying to sort out Irena's S1. If you are retired and you have a UK passport, then you can apply for the National Health Service in the UK to pay for your state medical insurance in Bulgaria. In order to do this, you have to get a document called the S1. However, in order to get one for my dear wife, the NHS wants to know when we left the UK. It was a long time ago. Fortunately I managed to find the exact date on some photos we took of our epic journey from the UK to Bulgaria. Yes, we were a lot younger then and perhaps even more foolish. Here is a photo of Peter, Irena and I departing from "Deande", the bungalow we were living in while I was teaching near Newbury.