It feels like coming home.
After some time away, I return to Me & Bo Life — to writing, reflecting, and sharing life again.
This space was always about honesty and connection. About daring to live differently, to love deeply, and to find meaning in the quiet moments between everything else.
Coming back doesn’t mean going backward — it means beginning again, with new eyes and an open heart.
So here I am. Ready to write, to feel, and to continue the journey.
💛 – Boryana
The irony is striking. Just a few hours from Detroit, the birthplace of the automobile, stands an island that banned cars in 1898 after one backfired and scared the local horses. The town council immediately outlawed internal combustion engines, a rule still in place more than a century later. Since then, bicycles, walking, and horse-drawn carriages have defined life here.
The journey to this ancient guardian begins in the small village of Nenkovo, located in the Kardzhali region. From the remnants of old water pumps, a narrow trail winds through overgrown meadows and the ghostly remains of Hayrenlar, an abandoned hamlet where time itself seems to have stopped. Crumbling stone houses, encroached by vegetation, whisper of lives once lived in harmony with the mountains. As hikers continue upward, the air grows thinner and purer, filled with the scent of pine and wild thyme. Then, suddenly, between the trees, the massive rock formation reveals itself — a colossal stone visage emerging from the mountain, oriented perfectly toward the east.
But inside Japan, the mood was far more complex.
Anna Magnani’s captivating performance in the masterpiece Rome, Open City, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, remains a remarkable role that made her one of Italy’s true movie stars.
