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When was the last time you felt like you are somewhere you belong? Can you recall the sensation: your mind is calm and serene, your breath is deep and slow, a barely tangible warmth spills over and around your heart, vibrating threads spring out of your solar plexus and connect you to everything around you... Whether this will happen – we don't know for sure, but we would like to invite you to sit by the pool, protected as in a nest by the stone houses behind you. Turn your eyes south to the plicated Predbalkan hills, like a colourful silk cloth, thrown there to brighten up the mounts of Stara Planina that have planted their peaks both in the sky and in Bulgarian history: Botev, Triglav, Shipka, and Buzludja.

If you could sit like that for a whole year, nightingales will wake you in the morning, while your being melts in fragrances: of cornel trees, elderberries, blossoming apples, acacias, Tilia trees, raspberries, wild strawberries, thyme, wild pears, sun-laden tomatoes, warm earth and summer savory, ripe quince trees, medlar trees and wet foliage leaves, rain washed rocks, frost and snow, tempting oak timber smoke...