It’s been a challenging start to the season with some poor days, like Monday and some better days like yesterday and today. But the cold temperatures have kicked in. This enables snow cannon  to to do their job and get that snow on the pistes. Tomorrow I expect all of piste 10 to open with piste [...]

With music, dancing, firework and snow falling  the opening day on Saturday was a good one. The high winds were not great but that all improved yesterday and for today with some fine skiing to be had on the plato. With lots of people enjoying the atmosphere it is always a pleasure to be here [...]

It’s that time of the season I love; the first run is open. Life is good. It was an epic day being taken up the mountain with Ivan Obreykov, Ulen’s (lift operator’s )marketing director. and a pleasure to take a bootle of rustic reserve’s Craft 19 gin and a bottle their gin liqueur, some tonic, [...]

What a fabulous dump of snow we had last night. I was up at Shilligarnika to get some fresh air and it was just at the start of the snowfall to show you and the YouTube subscribers what was happening. You can see it was cold. Because a lot of snow had fallen in Sofia, [...]

Rustic Reserve craft gin is a sign of Bulgaria’s progress on all the things craft gin. I was looking forward to this time. Craft gin was the biggest growing drinks segment in the UK in 2018 — with sales up 30% from the previous year. And now Dr Barabara Page-Roberts and her team have expanded the [...]

The first snow falls on the higher peaks. It’s time to get in the mood. Temperature will fall next week but we do need it colder for the snow making machines to start to work. I am not expecting early skiing but hope by 14th December 2019 we’ll have a good few lifts and pistes [...]