Christmas trees on Mt Vitosha

Christmas Day.

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January 10th 2007
Hi all, Well it's time for my long overdue blog entry from our Christmas break. Arriving in Bulgaria it didn't take us long before we met some of the locals. Taxi, you want taxi, I have taxi, I take you. This wasn't all that new to most of us, but we weren't too sure of where we should head to and it wasn't all that easy to organise a group of 17 to communicate with about six drivers to ... 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