Curse of the Solo Diner ...
... dinner was at Manastirska Magernitsa, an elegant restaurant housed in a 19th century house with a beautiful courtyard. But was I allowed to sit out there? No! Restaurants generally don't like serving single diners during the dinner rush since they can make more giving the table to a part of two or more. There was no way in hell I was getting a primo seat out in the courtyard! Instead, I was banished to this little room on the third floor, it was like I was a kid in detention ... service was painfully slow, to boot.
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 
