Valentine’s Day, so J, sweet as well as sweet toothed, suggests we go to Lidl for a treat. The treat being what we take home, not the trip to Lidl. So some pastries and some chocolate. One advantage to Lidl being that the pastries tend toward the German rather than the insanely sweet Greek. Baklava and similar oversweet enough in their original incarnation, all phyllo pastry, nuts and honey, but don’t think anyone other than the odd grandmother makes them that way now - it’s all glucose syrup.
Looking for a place to stay in Sofia in April. The difficulty being, in this case, that we’re spoiled for choice. Do get a pretty good grasp of our priorities/red lines, though. After the basics of price and safety the priorities are good wifi, central location, and adequate cooking facilities. Hopes for a microwave and the kind of shower that doesn’t treat the whole bathroom as a shower stall. This starting to ask for quite a lot in even a newly renovated flat in the old city. Buildings in the old city don’t run much to lifts, either. Which is all right, although slightly unkeen on seventh floor flats in that case. Remembering also that European numbering starts with ground floor. First is (at least) one up. Don’t care at all about television, though.
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