A very interesting answer to this question is given in the extract copied below from an email written by Martin Jeffes, an old friend from our days of motorhoming and cycling in Bulgaria. In retirement he and his wife Shirley and son Matt bought some land on the edge of the small village of Biser in the far southeast of that country, very near the borders with both Turkey and Greece, and turned it into Sakar Hills Camping. We were privileged to stay there often and as recently as the hot summer of 2019, we used the site as a base for an eight-day, seven-hotel bicycle tour of the three countries and the remote Rhodope Mountains.

One hundred and thirty two photographs called 'Memories of Bulgaria' form our tribute to Martin on our MagBazPictures website, although out of his modesty we don't mention him by name!

 Matt is at the campsite at the time of writing, although it has been temporarily closed by the Bulgarian government and he can't return to the UK. We wish we were there with him.

We posed the question 'Whatever Happened to MagBaz?' earlier in April, given that we were locked down, in and up in a flat between Blackpool and Fleetwood. Martin responded:

"Greetings, and the answer to 'Whatever happened to Magbaz', could, if one is blessed with a fertile mind, run to volumes, but my answer to the question is 'nothing'.  Magbaz is like the wind.  It's far more now than you two old codgers, rattling round the countryside on your bicycles, and annoying your neighbours.  Not many people get to create something that will stand the test of time, but I reckon you two have done it in spades."

In reply, we wrote (in part):

Thank you, Martin for this valuable insight from a man we have admired ever since our first meeting in Bulgaria in September 2008 following our three-month motorhome tour of eastern Turkey. No response has touched us more than your email, both to glimpse your perspective on MagBaz and to add more threads to that rich tapestry of life known as Martin Jeffes. We have published 831 'Readers Comments' on the MagBaz website, but yours is by far the most welcome and, may we say, incisive.

Knowing that the concept lives on greatly helps us through this period of physical lockdown. We do get regular statements from people who were 'inspired' by the website (thinking that if those two old codgers can do it, then why not us?) but your understanding goes further. And so it would, coming from one Martin Jeffes!

It always has been and ever remains a privilege to know you and to have spent time in your company. You made that far corner of Bulgaria a wonderland of experience and learning for us, ranging from the Thracians through the Romans to the Turks to the contemporary Bulgarian and your next-door neighbour, the Lady Mayoress. All this wrapped up in that phenomenon known as 'ex-patriotism' in its fullest flowering.

Go well in all you do. You - inseparable from your Land Rovers, from Kolarovo, from Biser, from Bulgaria - live on in our memories quietly inspiring and supporting us in our notion of what it is to be fully alive.