Monatsarchive: Juni 2018

As I was leaving Belene this man was heading into town. When I saw his tractor I did a double-take, he saw me and shrugged, I reversed the car and he graciously pulled over. When I asked if he spoke … Weiterlesen →

When I was a child and people talked about the Iron Curtain and political dissidents imprisoned in far away places like Romania and Bulgaria, when spy novel authors like Alistair MacLean or John le Carré had colleagues imprisoned by Eastern … Weiterlesen →

This was not an unusual sight, both to the west of Sofia and in the east between Turkey and Romania. Where it gets interesting is when you come around a bend doing 80kph and there is someone going the other … Weiterlesen →

So if you asked me to name a world-famous symbol of the US, I’d say Statue of Liberty, or Empire State Building. England? Big Ben or Tower Bridge. France? That’s easy! Eiffel Tower. Germany? Brandenburg Gate. Bulgaria? … Bulgaria? What’s … Weiterlesen →

I walked through the cemetery looking left and right along the rows, trying to get a sense of the number of graves.