Friday, October 14, 2011

Grim times for forgotten people

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The house in the past week has been busy with guests – so not much chance to blog but lots of good conversation….wine and rakia. All of whi...
Friday, October 7, 2011

musical and visual tributes, visit to Dionysus shrine

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First some musical tributes – sparked off by the very sad news that a guitarist legendary in my young days, Edinburgh-born Bert Jansch, ha...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Rhodope charm again

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I had hoped to be reporting on the great trip to Smolyian and Kardjali at the beginning of the week in the borderland with Greece – but was...

RIP The Ceaucescu legacy lives on

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Ceaucescu is alive and well and living on the Transylvanian border! I have just learned that at least a one metre footage of the land in fr...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Rhodope charms

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The Bulgarian roads are always a pleasure to drive – with the exception of some of the sinuous small roads which weave their way through th...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

In praise of self-sufficiency

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For the last few years, it’s been fashionable for these with a concern about declining resources to measure their "ecological foorprin...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Resilience - a more appropriate national index?

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Three questions arise from reading Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse – to which two of my recent posts have given extensive coverage • Do Euro...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Vernissaj and wine

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The Astry and Konus Galleries are both favourite ports of call for me here in Sofia. Vihra and Yassen are, respectively, highly sociable an...