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Friday, 03 September 2010

Epicure


Balkans
Wine and Rakiya from 6 Balkans Countries Awarded in France

10 March 2009 | Dozens of brands of wine and rakiya, or brandy, from six Balkan countries received gold and silver medals at the 2009 Vinalies Internationales
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News


Bulgaria
Bulgaria Becomes British Tourists’ Most Preferred Summer Destination

31 August 2010 | Bulgaria is the most preferred summer destinations among British tourists, surpassing other traditionally popular holiday spots, such as Sydney and Rio de Janeiro, according to a recent study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Full Story

Bulgaria
Cheap Flights Still Unavailable from Macedonia’s Airports
Bulgaria
Archaeologists Uncover Burial Sites from the Trojan War Period


Routes Less Travelled


Bulgaria
Kurdzhali: Where Men Trade in their Uniforms for Cassocks and the Town Clock Sings

At first sight, Kurdzhali is just like many other provincial towns in Bulgaria: it seems to stand still in time, its communist-style buildings lining the quiet streets and boulevards. But, upon closer inspection, the town’s peculiar history and little quirks, many of them unintentional, charm its visitors.

Here, the housing blocs bear names instead of numbers, army men are driven to give up their uniforms and become God’s servants, the town clock sings patriotic songs, Islamic schools become Russian military barracks and then museums, and gigantic Black Sea ships cross the mountains so as to sail in a man-made lake.
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Bulgaria
Belogradchik: What Rocks May Come
Bulgaria
Chiprovtsi: Stooping Women Guard the Bulgarian Renaissance's Few Traces

Curiosity Chest


Balkans
The Red and White Strings that Welcome Spring in Bulgaria and Romania

I remember walking along Canal Street in New York’s Chinatown on March 2 a few years ago, when I saw a man sporting a small ornament made of red and white thread pinned to his coat lapel. He must be Bulgarian, I thought to myself with a sudden rush of homesickness, but now realize that he may have been Romanian as well.
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Hidden Sofia


Bulgaria
Sklada: The Space that Stores and Showcases Contemporary Design

Its short manifesto, called “The diary of a Sofia neo-nihilist,” reads: “In reference to Sofia, nobody can claim anymore that it is a place of underdeveloped primates isolated from the world. Sklada turned all that around…” Full Story

Bulgaria
Before and After: A Tango Milonga in the Midst of Sofia
Bulgaria
Vlaykova: Sofia’s Old School Cinema

Hidden Bulgaria


Bulgaria
Julian Perry's Walks in Bulgaria's National Parks

Julian Perry, author of Walking in Bulgaria’s National Parks, describes three of his most loved routes through the Bulgarian mountains for the readers of BalkanTravellers.com. His book was published by Cicerone press last month. Full Story

Bulgaria
From Sofia to the Village of Lakatnik in an Old Locomotive
Bulgaria
Go Green in Bulgaria: 23 Eco-Hotels and Guest Houses to Choose From






Balkan Coasts & Mountains


Three Weekend Getaway Destinations in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Never spend a free day in a place you've already been is a rule many of us abide by – forcing us to take risky roads and end up in places we never knew existed, to get involved in conversations with strangers we never thought we'll be having one day.
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Perperikon, Bulgaria's Delphi: the Ancient City of Excessive Pleasures
Bulgaria: Strandzha's Mysteries


Balkan Towns


La Dolce Vita in Koprivshtitsa: Then and Now

Bulgaria

ldquo;What do you think? Koprishtitsa was a republic for centuries, without senates and ministers, without charters and presidents, ten times more liberal than the French, a hundred times more democratic than the American,” Zahari Stoyanov wrote in his Notes on the Bulgarian Uprisings at the end of the nineteenth century. Full Story

A City to Remember: Sofia in August
Plovdiv: A Felicitous Stop on the Orient Express Route