Fri, Feb 10 2012
The first ray of summer sunshine in the parks of Sofia and out come the bikinis, beer bellies and buskers.
Isn’t it surprising how many marches there are in the centre of Sofia these days? I am not talking politics here. I am talking roads.
So what if recent comical rumours in the media that various Bulgarian MP’s prefer spending more time in cafes rather than the seat of government are true? What jot of difference can this make to the debate? Aren’t the same old arguments always trotted out regardless?
Quite the best definition of the impossible is a bilingual dog. Especially in Bulgaria. No doubt you are either nodding or shaking your head.
Hot news! Sofia is going to "sister" with Chicago. Don't know about you, but this puts a huge smile on my face.
Smoking is a very Bulgarian pastime, in fact, so many people puff away here like the funnel of the QE2 that perhaps it could even claim to be the national sport. High time to blow the whistle on this dangerous game though, ref! Not least because, horrifying health issues aside, it seems that every few days in winter the omnipresent atom bomb plume of tobacco fumes that
With 007 back on the big screen once again, a little snippet in the news the other week reminded me of the best movie in the whole spy series, From Russia with Love. A terrific film, the plot centres around snaring the imperturbable MI6 agent in a "honeytrap", which, as you will all know, in espionage is a trap set to compromise a person using sex as the lure.
This year, forget about Earth Hour, celebrate human achievement instead.
The situation which came to a head last week involving Roma people in France from Bulgaria and Romania would be a perfect plot for a modern grand opera
Reflections on the fallout from five days of dark dealings, ambiguous election results and the odd crazy columnist
According to a recent report in Bulgarian-language daily Monitor, an alleged "SMS mania" was responsible for the inability of the average Bulgarian teenager to write to standards of grammatical correctness in their native language.
We have finally learned about the activities of Ahmed Dogan, the almighty and long-standing leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party, during all the years he failed to appear in Parliament.