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Hey! Thank you for your very nice comment. It's amazing to see others living a similar life style. We can't wait to bring up our kids in this environment. Will be a lot of fun for sure!

Hey! One of our friends has family in Stara Zagora so we were there two months ago - very nice place, I love the parks. Not sure if we have been to Rose Valley but when we did the Kom Emine hike we see a lot of nice small villages near the Balkan mountains. It's definitely hard to describe what living in a village feels like to a person who hasn't experienced that. Funnily enough a lot of my family ended up living in villages. My grandfather moved back to his village in Slovakia after living in the capital most of his life. My dad married a polish woman and ended up moving to a village in Poland from London and now my mum bought a property in a village in Slovakia so she also goes there from the UK. Each of these villages are very different from one another. One is super perfect - way too perfect for me wanting to live there (I still love it since I grew up there and it brings a lot of nostalgia). The other two are interesting in their own way but very low on population so it's more quiet. I think we hit the right balance with the village we live in. Enough of my rambling, haha. Happy New Year!

​@@idaandjakub Yes, we live in one of those villages near the in the Rose Valley (close to Kazanlak) and next to the Balkans. We see a lot of Bulgarian folks and mixed couples returning from Germany and the UK to to the village life over here as well. To me it seems like time travel as Bulgarian villages nowadays remind me of my childhood in Germany in the 90s. So I love the nostalgia and the freedom I feel living over here, which is especially great when starting a family.

Thank you - hope your house renovation is going well. :D

@ it’s a slow process 🙂

We are very happy that we did! :D We wish you a Happy New Year!

Thank you, hahaha. We drove there - took around 11hrs over the span of two days. Vulcho is now an international dog XD. I was also surprised by the gloves or maybe I was too excited about the snow fight that I forgotten about how cold my hands are.

That was impressive 😂

Thank you! We wish you both a happy new year too!

Now its all melting and there is mud everywhere XD

Hahahah, thanks Geri

Dakujeme! Aj mi vam prajeme :D

@@idaandjakub Inak super video. Pekne vidiet sneh a rodinu pohromade. Velmi autenticke.

@@MAKAKA2024-b7y Dakujem, kazdy rok sa snazime spravit vsetky nase traditions ako rodina.

@@mihailmihaylov9617 hahahahahahaha! Of course. I go there every day.

@@MAKAKA2024-b7y hahahahhaha! Aj ja by som si teraz dal ale nemam bryndzu 🥹

@@idaandjakub Kup ovce a zacni vyrabat. Mozno z toho bude kseft, ved ak ju tam nemaju, nebudes mat konkurenta.

Hey! Thank you for the kind words. I'm originally from Slovakia so it's naturally easier for me to understand Bulgarian. However, Bulgarians tend to talk fast so it's still very difficult for me. 😂 So I had to get a teacher. I get one lesson a week. The teacher is great. But I don't do my homework (always find some excuse) and don't practice speaking enough with other people. 😅 I'll need to start doing all that, mainly the speaking part if I want to get better.

@@idaandjakub keep up the great videos! It's probably the best Bulgaria videos I've seen. I was there earlier in the year, are you working in film / video editing over there?

@@JayDeLeon much appreciated Jay 🙏🏻 How was your experience here? I mostly film/edit internationally - only done a few jobs here. Mostly because the pay is way better elsewhere and I already have international clients that I worked for while I was living in the UK.

@@idaandjakub I really liked it there. I've been watching videos about buying property there. When I was there, I saw a lot of beautiful houses and abandoned houses retaken by forests. There aren't many good property videos though but lots of available property, maybe an idea for you ;)

Thank you Kaare! About the views - it's probably because of our inconsistency 🤷‍♂

Very greasy reactions XD

Благодарим! 🤗 Ама чак пък да завиждаш 😂

Радваме се, ще ти харесват! Ще се постараем да сме по-редовни 😊

@@alternativelivingbulgaria thank you! 😁

@@RyanLovejoy-q2e thank you Ryan! Why don't you start your personal UA-cam documenting your life? Too busy making epic stuff for others I guess.

Thank you!! It's called Nigella and also Love-in-a-Mist!

@@idaandjakub Thank you!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Maybe certain areas would be less warm for sure.

They are very good! You should continue filming more of them! ❤

@@auirek1 Will do boss! :D

They are great keep it up guys 🇧🇬👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hahaha, thank youu!

Thank you!

Thank you and good luck to you two!

Много благодарим, успех и на вас!

Thank you! Super happy you enjoyed watching.

Hahahah, yeah we communicate in English. Sometimes we try in our languages. But to be honest at this point we make up our own words. 🤣

@@idaandjakub haha, that's precious 😁 I found your channel accidentally when searching for experience with either relocating to Bulgaria or buying property there, didn't expect to find the extra layer of bilingual relationship story. Looking forward to your updates on the renovation and life in Bulgaria in general.

good question😅an update is coming soon!

I know right! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Think we got it from Jysk. 😅 But now that we done some research on the bees we will probably build our own and make it bigger and more functional.

Before we found these bees I didn't even know that there were so many different types of bees out there. I thought they all just produced honey XD Everyday is a learning day I guess.

How the hell did you remove the wasp nests? Do you need to allocate the queen and the rest follow?

@@idaandjakub they were only small nests which were created in places which put us at risk of being stung, like under our garden table or back of a chair, or around the front door so Darren would just wait for low activity around the nest and then knock it down.

Your 100mm f2.8 macro 💁🤣

I have mason bee cocoons in cold storage waiting for great white north weather to warm up enough to place outside by their new bee hotel :)

@@catherineincanada1874 that's amazing! Have you been doing this for a while? We would like to make more hotels and learn how to care for them better.

I'm new to this with mason bees@@idaandjakub In previous city life I always had overflowing gardens, with sheltered areas & a water fountain, so bees butterflies dragon flies & lightning bugs naturally drawn to their own oasis. Now here in great white north it's bit different, so adding mason bees & bee hotels, bird houses for swallows & hummingbirds, bat house & loads more pollinator friendly flowers, herbs, plants, shrubs, fruit trees, & of course trees to support local pollinators & wildlife. One magnet for bees butterflies & other beneficial insects is Joe Pye Weed, genus Eutrochium. Despite the name, it's scent is cross btwn lilac, honeysuckle & sweetest of roses. Good soil stabilizer, low maintenance, loves watery spots & grows over 5-ft tall, with beautiful small pinkish-purple flowers. I'd highly recommend if you can find it!

@@catherineincanada1874 Wow that all sounds amazing and we would love to create something like that when we move to our Bulgarian home. I don't remember seeing the Joe Pye weed but hope to be able to get some.

@@NewBulgarians Its native to North America, but perhaps you can order seeds? We often get cultivars from European, Asian & South American plants, perhaps you can order online? Or better yet, post online request☺synchronicity's a wonderful thing🌠

Super happy you enjoyed watching! 😄

Have heard of it but not yet visited, it's on the list, it looks very interesting, shame about the rubbish (as usual 😥) but good on you for trying and leading by example.

​@@NewBulgariansyou should definitely check it out in summer. The views are incredible. Even around the area it's pretty cool. Some epic caves and of course a lot of abandoned places or villages with a small population that are also interesting to look at.