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Susan Ashwell is a writer, blogger and YouTuber who left England to begin a new life in rural Bulgaria, where she has lived for 11 years. A retired social worker, she writes about village life, nature, gardening, cooking and the unexpected adventures of starting again. She shares her home with her husband and 11 rescue animals.

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Moving to Bulgaria: How It All Began

We were both in our late 50s, living in an idyllic village in the south of England when a sequence of unexpected events led us to reassess our lives as a busy professional couple. I was a social worker, and my husband, Jeff, ran his own business in the building industry. What did we really want…

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