Showing posts with label Sofia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sofia. Show all posts
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Strolling

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This is the fourth flat I’ve had in almost 8 years in Sofia – and it’s interesting what different perspectives (and indeed feelings) about...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Some recommendations for those visiting Sofia

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This has become the time of the year when my mind turns to the Carpathian house. Most of the last 7 winters have been spent here in Sofi...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Aesthetics and economics

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Two sad departures – the lovely small Tabak café which occupied the back of the National Gallery building (the old Palace) and spread on...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Back in Sofia

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The grey sky ended at the Danube - as it tends to do on these runs down to Sofia. And the temperature was high for January – all of 12 de...
Monday, January 14, 2013

different municipal styles

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Over the past 6 years, I’ve basically spent most of the winters in Sofia and the summers (apart from 2008) in the Carpathian mountain hou...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

You are where you live

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A Samuel Pepys - (or Marcel Proust -) type entry today. Thanks to a couple of recent moves in my accommodation I’m seeing another si...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Who wants to be The European Capital of Culture - and why??

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Bulgaria is one of the few EU member states which has not so far seen one of its cities designated as a  European City (since 1999 “Capit...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Worlds Apart at the Danube

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Today I remember a good man who died exactly two years ago. Ion Olteanu was a friend who devoted much of his life to the youth of th...
Monday, March 5, 2012

picking up Voltaire's Coconuts

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A second-hand English bookshop here in Sofia which boasts 10,000 titles – this is the Elephant Bookstore  - now relocated in the centre. ...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

user-friendly cities - a missing argument

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A visit last week to the office which manages the project I lead here led to another interesting conversation with one of the many pleasant ...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

the charm, yet again, of Sofia!

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After 4 years of familiarity with Sofia (almost 3 years in residence) it is typical that I stumbled yesterday on a well-established (and pre...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Downside of Sofia Charms?

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I’ve talked several times on the blog about the charm of central Sofia – with its parks and buskers with their retro music; narrow streets, ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

visual pleasures

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I’m sorry I missed the walking tour which Valentin Mandache arranged on Sunday around Targoviste -one of Romania’s ancient capitals. I alwa...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Sofia's charms - again

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Another very pleasant lazy (yester)day enjoying the incredible variety which Sofia has to offer anyone who appreciates serendipity - and who...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Hungarian ambitions and Bulgarian gentility

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The Hungarian Spectrum blog continues its amazingly penetrating analysis of political developments in Hungary by a piece on the background ...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

In praise of Sofia

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One of my readers was shocked that I was contemplating „leaving Romania” – if only for an 18 month project in Serbia or Bulgaria. As long a...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

paintings and books - what else?

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An early and cold trip across Sofia to Central Forum Hotel - first by tram to the centre, then by foot to catch a 5 tram down Makedonia Bv...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Le Flaneur

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Back into the tiny gallery on San Stefano St (at what I think is the north-east corner of Doctor’s Sq at the University area) to have anoth...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Vegetable markets

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Vegetable markets are always good at this time of year – but Bulgarian and Romanian ones particularly so with the richness of their produc...