Wednesday, March 27, 2013

wine and sculpture

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 Thanks to  CasaVino , an eminently quaffable new red wine variety for these cold days – from a village in the Melnik area near the borde...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Stoian Venev

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Various reasons for the 3 week silence – the numbing cold of the last few weeks; waiting for the results of various tests relating to my pr...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Pleven Gallery at last

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On Thursday, I eventually made it to the Ilyia Beshkov Gallery in Pleven. The  gallery was easily found – in an imposing building and q...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Iceland as Inspiration

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Iceland is a small country (300,000 people) in the Scandinavian zone of influence whose citizens gave an example of democratic wisdom and...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Can public trust be restored??

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If this blog has had one theme in its four years’ of existence, it has been that of the increasing moral corruption of the European polit...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Bulgarian demonstrations move to constitutional revolution

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“A plague on the political classes” – that’s what people have been shouting in the streets and squares all week in both Italy and Bulgari...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

A prayer for Bulgaria

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While I was tucked in my (private) hospital bed for my first ever overnight in a hospital (for some diagnostic work), the Bulgarian Gov...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Casanova and all that

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One of the many pleasures to follow from the absence of television from my living places is the selection of videos to buy and watch – and ...