Snow, Snow & More Snow
Woke up yesterday morning to blizzard conditions and a foot of snow. It carried on snowing heavily all day, leaving a white, winter wonderland.

Whilst the older dogs adored playing in the snow and ran around like fools, jumping in and out of snow drifts and playing with balls of ice and snow, little bobby was not impressed at all and so I took pity on him and kept in him inside for the day and night. He had a bath and then curled up under the table by the fire.


This morning the snow had stopped and there were blue skies. The wind over night had whipped the snow into strange shapes over the terrace railings:

New Year at Uzana
We spent New Year's eve at an old hostel in Uzana. A strange place really. Lots of old hostels and the odd hotel and each has a tiny drag lift by it. No-one really manning the lifts and turned on at sporadic times.

The hostel was unrenovated with basic bathrooms and awful metal beds. But it was warm and there were several bbqs provided to cook on as well as a number of pechcas.

It had put a little snow down over night and the next day we had to complete de-ice the Lada before we could set off down the icey, snowy road to Gabrovo and over Shipka pass back home. It was snowing heavily as we went over the Balkans but by the time we hot Kazanlak had turned to rain.