Bread and Jam . . . . . I really care about what I eat, it’s really important to me. Great flavours, textures and smells get me going, so much so that some might say I’m a couple of pounds over weight! But when it comes to our guests it matters even more. Not only […]
Comments Off on Bread and Jam Continue Reading...Snowing in Bansko Finally it is snowing in Bansko! Christmas and New year have been as busy as ever but the snow has been terrible! With 4 lifts and 4 pistes open only the Brits and the hardcore have been skiing! Most of our other guests haven’t been skiing at all. If they’ve gone up the […]
Comments Off on Snowing in Bansko Continue Reading...What’s cooking @TheAvalon part 1, Curry. The Avalon kitchen has proved amazingly popular over the years. At the hotel I mostly cook what I like to eat at home, these are recipes I have picked up on my travels or from working in restaurants around europe. Recipes that I cook over and over, nothing posh, […]
Comments Off on What’s cooking @TheAvalon part 1, Curry. Continue Reading...What’s cooking @TheAvalon part 2, Sunday night supper club. Reservations: hotelavalonbansko@gmail.com or 00359 74988399 The Sunday night supper club includes two courses of home cooking, two glasses of special selection wine ( or 2 beers), served from 7:30pm to 8:30pm every Sunday night throughout the winter season, for 30bgn a head we think it is a bargain! The supper […]
Comments Off on What’s cooking @TheAvalon part 2, Sunday night supper club. Continue Reading...Ski Bansko winter 2015/16 Great news if you want to Ski Bansko winter 2015/16 Ulen have some great new ski passes this year, with a focus on independent travellers, families, regular visitors and apartment owners Bansko is more attractive than ever ! Children under 7 will be able to ski for 1 Leva per day. Yup you […]
Comments Off on Ski Bansko winter 2015/16 Continue Reading...Ski equipment 2016 I’m am unashamedly a skier, I wont talk about snowboard gear as I don’t have a clue but when it comes to ski gear I have a clue. I have slightly more than a clue, I have issues! I’ll spend about a month of my working life each year ogling gear porn, […]
Comments Off on Ski equipment 2016 Continue Reading...On the 25th of October the Bansko elections 2015 will take place. The mud slinging between the previous and current politicians has been depressingly revealing. New accusations of corruption are released every morning. Our 9am coffee with the other mums on the school run has never been so exciting. Simply put the accusations are […]
Comments Off on Bansko elections 2015 Continue Reading...I’ve just come back from 72 hours at Tevno lake and other than the usual aches and pains from 3 longs days hiking I feel like a new man. Tevno is a magical place. At 2512m it is higher than what I consider a mountain but surrounded by mountains giving a secret valley […]
Comments Off on 72 hours at Tevno Continue Reading...Bansko in the Summer is so different from the winter that you could consider it a different place. The hectic neon circus that is the focus of the winter season has all but closed down. The staff have flown off to the black sea, the venus are boarded up. The top of town is now […]
Comments Off on Bansko in the summer Continue Reading...On the 25th of April at 11:56 a 7.8 earthquake struck in the area of Barpak in Nepal. The Nepali Himalaya are packed with small villages clinging like swallows nests to the steep hillsides. Thriving in this tough environment is almost impossible, simple tasks are made brutal by the plunging valleys and soaring peaks. Tiny […]
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