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I'm not going to lie, coming back from the pure wilderness' of Bulgaria to the UK in the doldrums of a wet and windy mid-sunmer with guts ache that lasted a week is enough to question your life choices. So with debilitation and deeply embedded demotivation I haven't been able to muster up much energy to do anything over the last week.
I had the moth trap on a couple of times ...

I've spent the whole week recovering from gastroenteritis which I picked up either in Bulgaria or shortly after. It was the worst case I've had in about 20 years (when I got really sick in Malaysia) and have spent a lot of the week in bed watching the entire Hobbit trilogy. 
Anyway seem to be a lot better today and managed to get out in the garden and start working again...

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We met Anton this morning at our hotel and then in torrential rain we headed south to Kresna. Our orginal plan was to head to the mountains north of Sofia but the weather changed our strategy so we headed south instead.
Nikolay had given us a couple of locations to check for butterflies so Kevin and I did some lepping while Anton concentrated on herping. Between us all we had...