The Infamous Sign

Vitosha Natl' Park and Plovdiv

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June 16th 2006
Guess what!??!?! Depeche Mode is coming to Sofia on the 21st, and Bucarest on the 23rd. It will probably be sold out by the time I get to Bucarest, but if not I'm definitely going. "Reach out and touch me..." Yesterday I went on a hike up to Vitosha natl' Park, the mountain only a few kilometers from Sofia. The taxi ride there was crazy, with the driver making up lanes, muttering in Bulgarian ... read more

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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, b... ... read more