Friday, March 9, 2012

Sliven's excellent galleries

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Sliven, with 100,000 inhabitants, is half the size of neighbouring Stara Zagora; also has a dramatic location with mountains rising sheer fr...

A good display in Stara Zagora

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Stara Zagora was reached in exactly 3 hours – along an excellent motorway which, however, peters out at that point. It has a superb location...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Writing

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I'm off to Sliven in a few minutes - visiting, Insallah, the Stara Zagora Art Gallery on the way - Mario Zhekov's hometown. Sliven w...
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. ...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Liberation and Loss in Bulgaria

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I knew something was special when I saw the Bulgarian flag stuck out of a neighbour’s window yesterday morning; small national flags for s...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Vagabond in Bulgaria

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The snow had melted sufficiently by the weekend to allow me to drive down to the flat in Sofia – the snow was still lying in the Romanian fi...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Lessons from Scotland

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My home country, Scotland, is in the news these days. It has had a Nationalist government for more than 4 years – and its citizens will in a...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The future of universities

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For some time now I have been wanting to comment about two issues – first, whether funding and expectations of universities throughout the w...