In winter, as anyone who has ever spent this season in Sofia knows, it is super easy to complain about life in Bulgaria’s largest city. Air pollution peaks. The notoriously bad pavements become even more impassable because of snow, or ice, or mud, or rainwater, or […]
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The waitress in the café approaches the table, carrying a tray with two small cups of steaming Turkish coffee. Then she stops nearby and starts spinning the tray round and round in the air, the cups rapidly turning upside down. You might think that she has […]
Read MoreThey measure the passage of time and the heartbeat of the city. They are an institution and a mark of civilization. The city clocks still tick away in their public places around the city, reminding people that the duration of the second is the same as […]
Read MoreTrapped in a house in the village of Sarmashik, which was still part of the Ottoman Empire back in April 1903, a small group of Bulgarians was wondering what fate would bring in the next few hours. Rebel leader Pano Angelov and his men had been […]
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Authentic traditional food is one of the strongest impressions a country and a culture left to the visitor. Bulgarian culinary tradition is one of those who quickly win new fans. Created in the span of centuries, while absorbing foreign influences and building up its own traditions, […]
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When we talk about Bulgarian cities that stick in the mind, Ruse is inevitably among the first to pop up. This is well deserved. Bulgaria’s biggest city on the Danube offers something you won’t find anywhere else in this country. Located on the steep riverbank, Ruse […]
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The Wheel of Life scene, on the southern wall of the main church, is self-explanatory. Here unfolds the human cycle, the eternal flux mirroring the passing of the seasons. The naivety of the child in spring blends into the confidence of the adult in summer, before […]
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Japanese tourists often cannot believe their eyes when they alight from their buses and head towards the Creators of the Bulgarian State Monument in Shumen. For them, the statues of the rulers of the First Bulgarian Kingdom look as if they have come straight out of […]
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The village has its fair share of ugly hotels destroying the view and the tranquility, but as it is far from the main hubs of tourist activities on the coast, these abominations are small in scale and leave enough space for true nature to survive, and […]
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