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Welcome<br />
This is my favourite time of the year<br />
but then I seem to say that in every<br />
season!<br />
Everything is in blossom, the birds are singing their hearts<br />
out, it’s green and neither too hot nor cold. The nights are<br />
warm and we forgive Baba Marta the odd shower to water<br />
the plants. On the “spring is here” checklist, all is ticked<br />
… storks, blossoms, baby animals and even snakes are out<br />
and about. The goats in our village are back on summer<br />
schedule, walking past the house morning and evening<br />
and keeping the verges in trim.<br />
We can get out walking, meeting up and seeing the sites:<br />
and each month there seems to be more to do – check<br />
What’s on, on page 22. Amazingly, many children break<br />
up from school within the month for summer! It’s time to<br />
start planning some longer trips to find more hidden gems<br />
… see page 36 for this month’s.<br />
Many people coming to Bulgaria to live face challenges:<br />
financial and emotional. It’s a big change. So, in this issue,<br />
as well as profiling an interesting and inspiring expat<br />
entrepreneur (p.2) we look at the practicalities of setting<br />
up a business (p.26), ideas for making ends meet (p.10)<br />
and tackling boredom (p.32).<br />
The <strong>VT</strong> <strong>Times</strong> is blooming with the spring: we are so<br />
grateful to our regular and new contributors for fantastic<br />
material. We try to include as much as we can each<br />
month, so keep it coming! Please don’t be disappointed if<br />
your article isn’t in this issue: it just means we’ve run out of<br />
space and will put it in a future edition. We have our first<br />
classified ads and hope they inspire you to submit your<br />
own – you can put your items for sale, or things you want<br />
to buy or swap for FREE if they’re under a hundred leva.<br />
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us a ring on 088 293 1456 or email info@vttimes.net and<br />
please keep sending your letters, any items wanted or for<br />
sale and articles: editor@vttimes.net<br />
See you all in June!<br />
Disclaimer: <strong>VT</strong> <strong>Times</strong> accepts no liability for errors herein, nor<br />
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not represent the opinion of the editor.<br />
cover photograph © Rachel Pritchard <strong>2012</strong><br />
Contents<br />
1. Welcome / Contents<br />
2. Expat entrepreneurs<br />
4. Holidays and market days<br />
5. St George: a saint for two<br />
countries<br />
6. Gardener’s calendar<br />
7. A growing concern ...<br />
9. Useful numbers<br />
10. Making ends meet<br />
12. Handy Bulgarian<br />
14. Train times<br />
16. Hospitals<br />
17. Doctors, pharmacists & vets<br />
18. The Bulgarian kitchen<br />
19. In the night skies<br />
Internet resources – Bulgaria<br />
blogs<br />
20. <strong>VT</strong> map<br />
22. What’s on<br />
26. Legal matters: starting a business<br />
28. Bus times<br />
30. Puzzles<br />
32. How to tackle boredom ...<br />
34. Spring quiz<br />
35. Letters to the editor<br />
36. Hidden gem: Nikopolis ad Istrum<br />
37. Sporting fixtures<br />
38. Behind the words<br />
Last month’s puzzle answers<br />
39. Trade directory<br />
40. Distribution area<br />
Advertising rates<br />
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