Were coming over on July the 17th for 2 weeks , were visiting a lovely lady who looks after our properties could anyone tell us want would be an appropriate gift . She lives in a village
and as we still live in the U.K were not sure want to get her, Perfume and flowers would be the norm but do this translate universally or would something more practical be the case
Hope everyone is keepinp well

Hi Paul

Firstly let me say have a brilliant holiday

Re a gift, perfume and flowers are ok for us Brits but the villagers like the more personal items. Perhaps a nice handbag, gloves, silk scarf. But the best gift of all was the solar garden path lights You can buy a box of 24 at £1 each in poundland. The neighbours were smitten. We will be bringing a few more boxes over this year ::

Oddy

We always bring over shortbread or "
butter biscuits"
as our Bulgarian friends call them.
They seem to go down well!

Bulgarian woman love expensive perfume

sarah

Have to agree with Sarah but you could always take some shortbread too

its the thought that counts, our neighbours are thrilled if we go round with a token gift of, flowers, cakes plants, it does not seem to matter what you take, it is always recieved well. in villages, it seems to be the time spent with them that matters the most, if its a business arrangement then that may be different, and in the cities its usually an agreed deal. in the villages it has retained the old values of looking out for each other, any gift is valued, so i would not worry what you choose to give it will be appreciated and welcomed. and how lovely, that the simplest token of appreciation is so well recieved. its not the cost, it is the thought. i love the floral displays in bulgaria, they are outstanding and cost little in comparison to the uk, but they really are beautiful. the fact that you have taken the time to consider them if worth more than money to them. old values have a lot to answer to.

Scunnered wrote:

We always bring over shortbread or "
butter biscuits"
as our Bulgarian friends call them.

We've always found that most 'sweet' things go down very well. We gave our neighbours a large tin of Cadbury's Roses last Christmas ... they were overjoyed ... the reaction was pretty much as if we'd given them a brand new car!

ChrisQBG wrote:

Scunnered wrote:

We always bring over shortbread or "
butter biscuits"
as our Bulgarian friends call them.

We've always found that most 'sweet' things go down very well. We gave our neighbours a large tin of Cadbury's Roses last Christmas ... they were overjoyed ... the reaction was pretty much as if we'd given them a brand new car!

Now your talking I forgot how they love sweets ::

Oddy