Life in Sofia, Bulgaria (More or Less)
Posted in Culture on Mar 1st, 2012
Hey! Today’s the 1st of March. That can only mean one thing: throughout the day everyone in Bulgaria will be happily exchanging martenitsi and wishing each other Happy Baba Marta or in Bulgarian Chestita Baba Marta. I love this tradition. I love it a lot in fact. Last year I wrote about how much I [...]
Posted in Culture, Having Fun, Travel on Jan 29th, 2012
I went to Pernik with my friend A. for the first time this weekend. This is probably something I should be embarrassed by given how close the city is to Sofia I don’t have time for that. What I really want to talk about is the Surva Festival that was held there this weekend. Amazing. [...]
Posted in Culture on Nov 15th, 2011
I’ve got two new Bulgarian blogs I am following and that I want to share. One is this English language/Bulgarian language blog Egosiastic. This is a daily fashion blog written by a thirty-something Bulgarian. Here’s what I dig: she takes great photos and writes in both English and in Bulgarian. What’s a girl who’s trying to [...]
Posted in Culture, Living Life on Nov 13th, 2011
This past summer I was told by a black-Audi-driving dad that his son would carry my suitcase and bag. He followed this up with the quip: that’s what boys are for. I smiled and reluctantly handed my things over. You see in my family, I was taught not to pack more than you can carry. [...]
Posted in Restaurants on Nov 6th, 2011
Last night P. and I met up for dinner. He suggested either SkaraBar or Spaghetti Kitchen. After a quick glance at the online menus we pretty quickly settled on SkaraBar although Spaghetti Kitchen has a pretty intense website. We met at the University metro stop and walked over SkaraBar in Zaimov Park behind the theater. [...]
Posted in Having Fun, Living Life on Oct 25th, 2011
This is just to say that the metro seems to be open all the time recently. Yep. It’s still a huge hole in the ground. Even though I did hear recently that the metro supposed to officially open in February/March but here’s the thing, it seems to be open already. Well not that you’re going [...]
Posted in Culture on Oct 24th, 2011
I’ve been catching up on past episodes of the Bulgarian TV show: Lost in Bulgaria (Изгубени в България) which plays on NOVA tv this past weekend. Here’s the basic “plot” of this “reality” television show. Two foreigners who happen speak Bulgarian (because they are–or were–Peace Corps Volunteers) find themselves in a variety of different situations [...]
Posted in Living Life on Oct 15th, 2011
Just a heads up. I am going to be on Bulgarian National Television tomorrow at 1:30pm. I’ve been invited to be a guest on a regular Sunday afternoon show. The topic is something like: Spiritual Wanderers. That line, when it rains it pours seems especially fitting this week. I think the best part of the [...]
Posted in Culture, Living Life on Oct 12th, 2011
Hey, I’m live on Sofia Live!! Yep, my interview and photos from last week are up. The interview which I gave in English has been translated into Bulgarian so unless you speak Bulgarian or feel like copying and pasting the text into google translate (and reading the super questionable translation), you’ll just have to look [...]
Posted in Living Life, Restaurants on Oct 12th, 2011
My friend A. recently told me about the best hamburger in Sofia. Now you can’t tell me something like this and not grab my attention. The best hamburger in Sofia?! We live in a kufte and kabache loving country. Heck, in Bulgaria beef is by far the least popular of the the three big meats: [...]
Going to see Gatsby. - posted on 22/05/2013 17:57:17Great day. - posted on 21/05/2013 18:51:55Adventure-ing. - posted on 21/05/2013 10:58:46A run and then some coffee. - posted on 21/05/2013 06:23:02I'm tired of sneezing and generally being allergic to everything in Sofia. - posted on 20/05/2013 17:45:20
