I am currently in a hotel room before a 6 am. flight to Sofia, Bulgaria tomorrow. I will be staying in an apartment that belongs to my nephew Simon, cheers Si….. I am treating this as a reccee for more birding in the spring hopefully but I am  expecting to see and photograph some new species for my galleries. I haven't been to Eastern Europe before so in itself it should be a good experience. As is usual I am on my own which is good and bad, I am always a bit lonely but I do enjoy my own company as well. My apartment is in the Pirin Mountains in the town of Bansko which is in a Nation Park and in a site of SSCI at 900 feet above sea level. We are in the middle of the migration so there could be some great bird activity, I hope so. Someone asked me earlier what I may or may not see and I reeled off quite an impressive list…. who knows. Please check back as often as you can, I have no idea what the internet connection will be like, thats always a problem when I go away. When I visited Australia a year or so ago, I was forced to visit MacDonalds every day (ugh), because that was the only place that  I could get connected, fingers crossed.