Here we are in sunny Bulgaria staying with our good friends Martin & Kate. This is a country of vast differences between a few sophisticated towns and a very rural, peasant-like existence in the rural communities. This village is an hour's drive from the nearest town along pot holed roads that are rough enough to shake out even the best dental fillings.
For some of the peasants the height of sophistication is to have rubber tyres on their donkey drawn carts. Having said that they are very happy, have few aspirations and are extremely generous with their time and goodwill. Living here must be a mind set change of unimaginable proportions but Martin & Kate have taken to it like ducks to water.
Most things are cheap however petrol/diesel is very close to UK prices so how the locals travel such vast distances is difficult to fathom.