Keeping Warm 1
A year or two ago, I wrote a series of Facebook posts about how to keep your Bulgarian house warm during the winter months. Now that the nights are getting longer and colder, I thought that it might be help to repeat some of the points I made in my previous posts. In the Bulgarian countryside, most people heat their homes with wood, while in UK logs fires are banned just about everywhere or else you have to get all kinds of permits and safety inspections. If you can get your hands on some cheap (or free!) firewood, then during the winter months you will be able to keep your house cosy and warm for almost no cost. In the UK, your central heating may well cost between £200 and £300 per month and probably a lot more if it is oil-fired. Let's assume that you turn on the heating in October and switch it off at the end of March. This means that in the UK, keeping your home warm during the winter might be costing you as much as £1,800! In Bulgaria, the person to talk to is the mayor o...