The church at Tsarevets Fortress

Shopping and dancing

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September 15th 2015
Geo: 42.7252, 25.4815The cricket eventually buggered off last night, thank Heaven! The music went on for a while but it was a nice jazzy sound, so I didn't mind it. For a short while, it was just a tenor sax playing, and it sounded happy and mournful at the same time.My aunt asked if there's been any problem here with the migrant crisis. It's certainly in the news (though I haven&# ... 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