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I see Yambol every day and every day I wish I had my camera on me. Well that's what I do now, keep the camera on me. You now can share what I see on a daily basis.
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A New Yambol Restaurant Opens
This used to be a Chinese styled restaurant sitaution in the middle of an area called Borovets. It closed down to be become the nerve centre for the Bulgarian political party GERB, which subsequently won the National elections earlier this year. It n...
Memories Of A Top Bulgarian Star In Yambol
Even though Veselin Marinov, one of Bulgaria's top singing artists had performed back in November, the poster advertising his concert remain intact below the newspaper stand. Like the election posters, it will not be removed but just have another one...
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Well the camera hasn't materialised and I have heard nothing from the donor who was due in Bulgaria on the 21st of this month. "Don't' rely on anyone but yourself", was a piece of Bulgarian advice that was given to me a few years a go here. I must sa...
Camera Now Due - Also A Tip For Bloggers
My donor for the camera should be in Bulgaria bow and I await with baited breath for him to contact me so I can start snapping away again. It may seem strange to people why I can't buy a cheap digital camera here, but unless you know Bulgaria and how...
A Brick Wall Built On A Yambol Street - Why?
As I walked along the Yambol side streets I came across a brick wall that had been built that sticks out from a house wall. It sees to have no purpose there at all. Perhaps the Bulgarian owners started something that couldn’t be finished or is to b...
Old Yambol Log Truck Newly Painted
This is a Yambol log truck that I found parked on a side street. It had been recently hand painted and looked like new although it may well be some 20 plus years old. It had been used for learner drivers looking at the blue ‘Y’ sign on the right ...
Galia And Her Niece Working In a Yambol Hardware Shop
This is a picture o my Galia and her niece working in a hardware shop. They work form 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM when there and perhaps get four or five customers a day. Times are hard in the retail trade worldwide and Yambol is no exception. Smoking and sit...
A Set Of Yambol Rustic Railings
These Yambol rustic railings were found not too far from where I live. It just typifies many of the components of a Yambol house where things are used day in day out as they work very well, but the fashion and façade doesn’t really matter at all. ...
A Yambol Tree With Lovely Coloured Bark
This lovely tree on a Yambol road bordering the Tundzha River just hit me with its colour on the bark. I spent ages just looking at this particular medley of colours and though how many other people actually would notice this? Not many locals, but th...
A New Gas Metering System In Yambol City Centre
I caught sight of this network of gas piping on a newly built shop front on a sidewalk just south of Yambol city centre. It does have the warning signs on, but I did reflect on whether this type of design would be used in the UK, especially the use o...
A Long Vertical Glass Framed Window In Yambol City Centre
Yambol has its fair share of patterned windows and her is another one covering two floor of a town house. It just adds character to a space that would seem quite dead without it and of course create light within the internal staircase it looks into. ...
New Posters Appear On Yambol's Streets
With the elections well and truly in the past now both in Yambol and Nationally with a new government in session, the old political faces of old posters are being superseded with new posters. It won’t be long before all old election campaigning fac...
An Old Wooden Door To A Yambol Town House
It is quite usual to find most gate and door into garden in Yambol City house are made from metal. This one isn’t and has weather pretty well considering the extremes of weather Bulgaria throws at it. Again the sign of a house of merit is display a...
Yambol's Wood Stocks Supplier
On the outskirt of Yambol just across the Tundzha River southwards you will find olne of the wood stock suppliers where hundreds of Bulgarian buy their winter fuel for their wood-burners. It is cut and sold in 1 cubic metre loads with a delivery serv...
A Yambol Waste Bin Full To The Brim
There is this reputation that Bulgarian just throw their rubbish everywhere and that there is no care about the environment when they do this. In actual fact form my experience in Yambol this has two sides. The younger generations tend to be more con...
A Lovely Iron Stairway To A Yambol Shop
Leading up to a Yambol shop, an almost new flight of stairs in Bulgarian red and green. I love the way the design has been worked on, giving a chunky and robust look yet retain a certain elegant styles that serves very well. This should last 100 year...
The Tall And The Short In Yambol
A contrast in the height of Yambol residents homes from a small bungalow to a high-rise apartment block. The contrast is quite dramatic and there are many examples of this around the city. Many Bulgarian prefer the apartments due to being very econom...
Yambol Shop Workers, Working
This is a common sight everyday in Yambol city centre are shopkeepers on the street. Many have a resident table and chair in which to sit out and have a smoke a drink and a chat with the neighbouring shopkeepers. It looks like a little street café s...
Yambol Homes Cleared For More Development
Yet another area in Yambol city centre sees Old Bulgarian houses being demolished to make way for new developments for profit. I do not know what is planned here but is certainly won’t be a Bulgarian house but more than likely to be expensive apart...
Yambol's Army Cadet Training Recruitment Offcie
In Yambol city centre there is a cadet training recruitment office, where I often wait outside while Galia is in one of her favourite women’s fashion shop across the road. The pictures on the window look quite exciting, but I have never seen anyone...
Bad Parking Habits In Yambol - Even Wheelbarrows
Bulgarians are well known for their bad parking habits. Not just Yambol, but everywhere you go in Bulgaria you see cars parked on pavements without a thought for pedestrains. Today the same manner was shown for a badly parked wheelbarrow. I had to la...
A Yambol Rose - One Of Millions In Bulgaria
Bulgarian is famed for its roses and perfume made from them. In fact over half thew world's supply of distilled rose comes from Bulgaria to be made into perfume and other cosmetic products. Yambol therefore is no stranger to roses and as a visitor yo...
A Typical Yambol Family Grave
This is a typical grave that you would find in Yambol's cemetery. The picture of the husband and wife buried there with the details craved out. A little windowed box space at the base of the headstone to keep memorabilia and an old storage can where ...
Yambol's Cemetery Entrance
This is the entrance to Yambol's cemetery where memorial posters are placed on anniversaries of the deceased family members. The photographs always tend to show them at their best usually taken when they were much younger if they died old. This is a ...
Yambol's Main Library
Yambol’s main library doesn’t look like a library at all from the outside. What’s more the library sign that says ‘Biblioteka’ in gold Bulgarian writing hasn’t yet got an English version alongside, yet! Having been inside the library situ...
Another View of Yambol's Tundzha River
Another view of Yambol's Tunzdha River looking south. This stretch is only 200 metres from Yambol city centre, but untouched and unspolt left for nature to take control. I often pass this view crossing the bridge from the lower bazaar to the mains pe...
Big Blow Up Slides For Yambol Children
By the side of Yambol's city centre park there is a big blow up slide for children to play on. It is not there all the time, mostly at weekends when the children are about. You have to pay, but not a lot around 1 leva for fifteen minutes. Nice to see...
Rounded Pink Yambol School Building
A school opposite the main Yambol hospital has some interesting architecture with the building with a rounded wall. It certainly creates a warm atmosphere as opposed to the straight sharp edged building you normally associate with a former communist ...
A Broken Down Lada In Yambol
The Ladas of Yambol are a dying breed. Every ten cars you saw in Yambol a few years ago eight might well have been Ladas and it would take you quite a while to find ten cars! Now the volume of traffic and the amount of modern western European cars im...
Bumper Cars In Yambol
The funfair is in Yambol and the bumper cars are my all time funfair favourite. Not much of a queue so not waiting involved, the troul eis there are no other drivers that you can bump into! No fun on your on so I gave it a miss. Perhaps there will be...
