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@jasmith837  Hi James, do you mean Stefan Stambolovo?

if so the Sunflower guest house is based there (little gem of a place) especially if your viewing property in and around VT.  The owners; Graeme and Bev will be able to tell you anything about the place.

T

@Great escapist many thanks.  I will look them up.

There are two villages in that area with similar names, Stambolovo and Stefan Stambolovo.

When we were looking the that area, a long-term Brit resident in the area who knows it very well warned us that Stambolovo wasn't the best of villages and that we should avoid it, but Stefan Stambolovo was a good place to live.

That was ten years ago, so of course things may have changed. We didn't end up looking at houses in either village so I can't comment on from direct experience.

According to the timetable scheduled passenger trains run 4 times a day on that line, but there may be goods traffic as well.

@janemulberry, Many thanks for the heads up.

the listing says Stambolovo.  On the map it's quite close to Pavlikeni (a little south east).

I will ask the agent for the village post code.

james

I am sure that is the same village I was warned against. It looked just like any other Bulgarian village as we drove through on the way to Pavlikeni, but apparently at the time it was a small and tight-knit ethnic minority community that wasn't welcoming to outsiders.

But that was over ten years ago and of course, it may have changed. Hopefully someone with more up-to-date information will be able to chime in.

I suspect that the only change will be that the "small and tight-knit community" is now rather larger.....

@jasmith837 hiya James we lived in mihaltsi,  very close to Stambolovo... have a look there too x we are selling our house. X message me for more details.

@jasmith837

hi my farther in law has lived there for 8 years and is English and there a other english oeople in the village. we gave bever encountered any tight knit comunity there and is a lovely little viollage and the railway isnt used very often and we never hear it and hes a couple of minutes drive from it

Wendy

@jasmith837

hi it’s  a lovely village and not tight knit my father in law has lived there 8 years and is english along with other english in the village. The train line is not a problem, not busy and you don’t hear it

Hi James,

Have you found a property to buy? I have a house for sale in Stefan Stambolovo, which I bought intending to move there. A change of plans means that this is not going to happen, so the house is now for sale. It has been empty for a long time, so unfortunately the inside is in a bit of a mess, but it is still a good, solid house. It is in the older part of the village, where the houses are built of lovely honey coloured stone, only 20 minutes drive to Veliko Tarnovo, which is a beautiful town.

I hope you got sorted out, but if not, here is a link. Feel free to pass it around, if you know of anyone else who is looking. Thank you very much.

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@amandac66

Hello and welcome !

Feel free to post a free advert in the Property section for better exposure.

All the best

Bhavna