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SOFIA (Bulgaria)
2-9 March 2004
I have spent one week
in Sofia to visit Benny. I went there by coach (16 hours!). The city lies at the
foot of Vitosha mountain. During the day sometime I was wandering alone, cause
Benny was working. But we always had at least lunch together. The main problem
for me was to understand the cyrillic alphabet. Anyway the 3rd of March it is
the Bulgarian Indipendence Day, a bank holiday. On that they I visited the most
important buildings and monument of the city and in the evening she had prepared
a nice surprice: we went to see in the theatre of the National Palace of Culture
an exibition of folk-dances and folk-songs.
St.Sofia
statue, the symbol of the city
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The main square: a monument, the National Palace of Culture and Vitosha mountain
on the background
 House of the
Communist Party - National Theatre Ivan Vazov
- The Royal Palace
 Orthodox Cathedral Alexander Nevski - Narodno Sabranie Square
and the
Parliament
 Monument of
the unknown warrior - Popa crossroad
Then in the other days I enjoyed especially the night life: once we had a
dinner with some friends of her and so we bought traditional food, another time
we went in a restaurant with her brother George (Gosha) and his girlfriend,
often we ate the delicioud dishes of her grandmother. Anyway everyday I ate a
lot of palacinke (pancakes). On Sunday we went on the countryside, where the
parents of Benny are building a house, so we went for a walk on the mountains
and we reached a monastery.
Zori, Franko, Nascko, Anelia, Alex, Benny
Musicians
Gosha and his
girlfriend Dinner in a traditional restaurant
The ospitality has been great. I have appreciated the
city, the traditional dishes, the company of her friends and of her relatives.
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