43.12 Bulgaria: Blezbog on a cloudy, foggy and interesting day: A steep climb through the forest plus a love affair with...a mountain.
Each pattern of weather brings its own perspective of nature. Jen returning down the second last ski slope having carelessly lost her skis. 'Haunting' in a sense but for us, special on the day. We feel so fortunate regarding the weather in Eastern Europe over the period of our visit, certainly the latter month. Because we changed our plans by reducing our stay in the southern hemisphere, it meant that most of November, including September and October, would be on this continent. The last fifty days were spent in Bulgaria, a country we only read of very briefly in our youth. In the latter years, because of the vast changes of the ‘nineties’, we took a keener interest although more focused on some of the larger neighboring countries. A funny thing is that a day before departing Poland for Ukraine, we decided to skip over that country knowing full well we’d learn all about it during the ‘impeachment hearings’. Naturally, we forego all hiking activities during the he...