Veliki Preslav - 13th June 2010

I spent the day with Yordan's family : his mother, Maya, his father, Yvan, his sister, Juli and her boy-friend, Valentin. They actually hosted me as if I was their daughter and like a princess ! The temperature outside is 35 degrees. A peacegul bulgarian sunday : we went to the market, shelled walnuts, ate fried zucchini with yoghourt, watched the World Football Cup and family pictures. Maya and Yvan brought me to the ruins of the former Veliki Preslav from the 9th century and prepared delicious "kevabche" (boulettes de viande grillees).

NB : Life in Bulgaria is not easy (a doctor earns 250 euros a month...), so inhabitants make a lot of different kind of activities in order to have a better life -besides their jobs- : picking up and selling cherries, making and selling honey, cutting the wood for the winter, eating most of the vegetables and fruits from the garden...and so on. A lot of young people go abroad to earn money : in the 90's, there were 9 millions inhabitants ; today, there are only 7 millions. The government is highly corrupted and Bulgaria is quite afraid of the giant Turkey. That's a short summary, actually, but...