A Quiet Place to Sit in Yambol Cemetery

 If ever there was the need to sit in a quiet place to reflect, the perfect location would be in Yambol Cemetery. There is even a drinking station for convenience.

A Water Station in Yambol Cemetery

 After tidying up graves and left with muddy hands, this water station in Yambol cemetery is more than useful.

An Impressive Angel in Yambol Cemetery

 This angel just stands out from the crowds of graves seen in Yambol cemetery.

The Chapel in Yambol Cemetery

 A quaint chapel is situated in the cemetery on the outskirts of Yambol. this is where the services are given for those that are due to be buried on the grounds that surround it.

Tree Cemetery on the Banks of Yambol's River Tundzha

 After the massive renovation and clean-up of the River Tundzha, what remains is a tree cemetery. This is a casualty of the revamp of the river banks no doubt the firewood will be taken and burnt before the end of winter.

A View of Bakadzhik from Yambol's Cemetery

Seen from Yambol's Cemetery is Bakadzhuk one of the many landmarks surrounding the City,

Stone Mason Factory Opposite Yambol's Cemetery

A stonemason factory situated opposite Yambol's cemetery with the main business making gravestones as you would expect. This is not the only place locally that make these with much competition to similar masons close by. 

Flower Stalls Outside Yambol's Cemetery

Business is thriving outside Yambol's cemetery. Flowers and cemeteries go together and flowers are in abundance in the late spring early summer season. 

A Grave With Beer Bottles In Yambol

This weekend was a visit to the Yambol cemetery to pay our respects by lighting candles and tidying up relative's graves. One grave I saw was well tended but I was more intrigued by the beer bottles used as vases fot the fresh flowers laid today.

A Camera At Last!

What a turn up this weekend. I did a favour for a reader of my blog, namely to go to the Yambol cemetery and look up a relative who had passed away in recent year and give feedback. It was something that I would have done as a favour as that’s the sort of people we are here and we did. We got information of the burial site, dates, addresses and pictures (ironically from a borrowed camera) and gave this back.

Soon after the person who asked for out help send a donation of $50 for out troubles. This was a total surprise and of course adds to the $20 that has already been donated toward a digital camera. With $70 in the pot I now can afford a digital camera and am on the point of buying one. It will be at the cheapest end of the market but as long as it does the job that’s all that matters.

So now time ticks away for more pictures to be taken, not just on Yambol Daily Pictures blog, but for all my blogs that have recently lacked original pictures as their source

I would like to thank the donors that have made this possible http://dfoolonthehill.com (who has said farewell for some reason – see the link) for the $20 and Sergei Bazhgin (location unknown) for the $50!

I hate shopping, but now have to for the best budget camera deals around.

A Typical Yambol Family Grave

This is a typical grave that you would find in Yambol's cemetery. The picture of the husband and wife buried there with the details craved out. A little windowed box space at the base of the headstone to keep memorabilia and an old storage can where lighted candles are placed to protect against the wind. We quite often attend to my partner’s family graves tidying up, lighting candles and paying our respect, just like most other families do from Yambol and Bulgaria as a whole.

Yambol's Cemetery Entrance

This is the entrance to Yambol's cemetery where memorial posters are placed on anniversaries of the deceased family members. The photographs always tend to show them at their best usually taken when they were much younger if they died old. This is a good way to remember these Bulgarian folk who now are no longer with us.

Yambol's Cemetery Under Bakardzhik Peak

Bakardzhik Peak is where that tragic coach accident happened yesterday on the same day we visited family member's graves on Ascension feast day. A very sad day for Yambol and Bulgaria.

(Sorry about the marks on this picture - I really need a new camera!)