Crystal Palace Sofia
14 Skipka Street Sofia, 1504, Bulgaria
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Sofia
We toured Sofia, seeing churches and Roman ruins. Everything was in walking distance. We walked down into the subway to find an archaeological site of the original gates of the city from the 2nd century. To see pictures of Sofia, copy and paste this URL into a new browser window: http://tinyurl.com/yvdwaa
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Grand Sofia
... some of the things on the menu (both food and introductions to food) as they appeared in the menu. I sneakily copied them down into a little notepad at the restaurant, pretending that I was noting my lovely surroundings (the surroundings were lovely and the food great by the way, but the menu was really special):
Menu choices:
~ 'Nervous meatballs' (Tom wanted to get these to see if they twitched on the ...
Breakfast in Sofia, Dinner in Istanbul
... to the effect of, "why would you want to go there? Just a bunch of gypsies..." So apparently the tourist books weren't accurate in their recommendation to go there? So instead we headed down the street to the Rotunda of St. George...again no pictures allowed...but see below for what I was able to sneak. The traditional Bulgarian gaurds at the President's office, the archeology muesem, and the large Jewish synagoge were next on our tour this morning. Saw a couple groups ...
What was going on ... on the train to Sofia?
... about the cigarette smuggling across the Serbian and Bulgarian borders but we were not prepared for the Keystone Cops drama that followed. First there was a man with a big belly who removed panels from near the ceiling of the corridor outside the compartments. He took a ladder from the sleeping compartments and had a screwdriver and used it to get the panels open and he stuffed some cigarette cartons in some of the spaces. He seemed to have a younger ...
BULGARİSTAN'A TOPLU BAKIŞ
... Filibe, Poyna, Dravna, Bukfu.
HİSARLI (Hasalı): Yörük, 1711.
HOŞOBA: Yörük, 1767 + Muhacir, 1877, Bulgaristan, Razgrad, Ada Köyü, Lofça.
ILICABAŞI: Pomak, 1893, Bulgaristan, Filibe, Lakaviça, Corgan, Tafrişna.
IŞIKELİ (Eşekçi): Pomak, 1896, Bulgaristan, Filibe, Lokavitsa.
İDRİSKORU (Tevfikiye): Çerkez, 1873, Kafkasya, Adige, Kuban, 1873.
İLYASALAN: Pomak, 1911, Bulgaristan, Filibe, ...



