Life in Bansko

When i started this blog, along with keeping all the owners and our clients up to date with what is going on, on site i wanted to give a little flavour of our life and life in Bansko generally, in the hope it will make it a little more familiar for everyone and you get an insight to the culture here and how ordinary people live in a Bulgaria mountain resort. Previously you saw the blessing we had at the complex, to day i would like you to see our little angel Chantal first day back to school after summer and starting her 4th year classes.

Like everything in Bansko/Bulgaria, school and schooling is driven by tradition and family and the start of the new school term is an event that the kids and school spend time during the summer to prepare for. this year Chantal was asked to present the pitka bread for the 4th year classes, for this she don's traditional dress and after a mini theatre performance put on by the children, she and two other girls (one for each year group) lead the kids in to the school.the bread is representative of health, happiness and family, for all that use and work at the school. The little show performed by the kids is about nature and the animals of the woods.

Your see and feel from the brief video that, schooling remains here not only about education but the children having fun, values and traditional interaction with each other, and different from the UK and most of europe these days they are allowed to remain kids a lot longer, not a bad thing in my book.

Watch and enjoy.

Up on the Roof

Hi everyone its been a little while, but its been a busy few weeks and lots going on in the back ground, mostly looking to the future and sorting out all the detail involved in operating the site and setting our PPM and RM procedures. Hopefully everyone has seen our LCR document we produced really whilst it might come across a little scary really it is all manageable, and as long as we all work together, everything can be managed. Whilst we where putting the LCR together we obviously had to gain good visual access to the roof areas of the complex and whilst we where doing this we managed to get some unusual and interestingly different views of the complex and it architecture profile.

You cannot help but love the architectural proportions and balance of the building, i know i keep saying it but she really is the best in Bansko visually and also in terms of internal layouts and apartment scope, really the core and most important elements of the construction are all in order. You can also see we have been busy behind the building with getting the grounds in order and you would not believe how thick and dense the under growth was.

Not the same development i hear you say, amazing what a little bit of love and attention can achieve, with the vast majority of the grounds now through the first phase of tending we are now, focusing on removing the unwanted heavy weeds and starting to nurture the grounds by selective burning and watering prior to seeding and tending we have also order some select and appropriate planting and young trees for planting before the end of September.

  
Architecturally i like the roof junctions of the complex and the rhythm they sets, even the chimneys have been coordinated which is very unusually in Bulgaria let alone Bansko.

Looking better and better all the time and really she is worthy of your dreams.

And this is how we got up there, a ride in a manuto man bucket, not glamorous but very effective 

We have also been working fervently with the OA to-gather more owners to the fold that dont already know about the great work the OA have been doing up at St Johns, with the soul aim to get more members to buy into the future, that can now be shaped by us all. As well as ownership searches, we have put on each entrance a promotional leaflet, urging any owners we have not already traced to get in touch and to get involved.