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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2018/02/the-radiant-and-peaceful-shipka-memorial-church/">The Radiant and Peaceful Shipka Memorial Church</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2018-02-12T15:17:13Z">Mon Feb 12, 2018</time> by Alan Orth in
<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
<a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">Church</a>, <a href="/tags/memorial/" rel="tag">Memorial</a>
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<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipka_Memorial_Church">Shipka Memorial Church</a> is the most beautiful church in Bulgaria that you&rsquo;ve probably never heard of (or at least never visited). It&rsquo;s easy to miss compared to the <a href="https://englishbulgaria.net/2016/04/sofias-marvelous-alexander-nevsky-cathedral/">Alexander Nevsky Cathedral</a> that is conspicuously located in the heart of downtown Sofia. Nestled discreetly in a small grove of trees at the foothills of the Central Balkan mountains, I had driven by it three or four times before I even realized it was there. One time, on the way from the Shipka Pass to the nearby town of Kazanlak, I saw one of the church&rsquo;s shiny golden domes peeking out of the trees in my rear-view mirror.</p>
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alt="View of the church&amp;rsquo;s façade and onion domes from the northern part of the garden"/> <figcaption>
<p>View of the church&rsquo;s façade and onion domes from the northern part of the garden</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/11/if-you-give-a-bulgarian-man-some-grapes/">If You Give a Bulgarian Man Some Grapes&hellip;</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-11-02T17:58:18Z">Wed Nov 02, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
<a href="/tags/grapes/" rel="tag">Grapes</a>, <a href="/tags/rakia/" rel="tag">Rakia</a>, <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">Wine</a>
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<p>If you give a Bulgarian man some grapes, he&rsquo;ll want to make wine. After he drinks the wine, he&rsquo;ll want to use the pressed and fermented remains of the grapes to make a traditional brandy called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakia">rakia</a>. This is easily the most famous <em>cliché</em> about Bulgaria, but in my experience it&rsquo;s not that far from the truth.</p>
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alt="Pitting plums to add to the grape pomace"/> <figcaption>
<p>Pitting plums to add to the grape pomace</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/05/katarzyna-estate-and-the-legend-of-thracian-wine/">Katarzyna Estate and the Legend of Thracian Wine</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-05-22T17:29:25Z">Sun May 22, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
<a href="/categories/bulgaria/" rel="category tag">Bulgaria</a>
<a href="/tags/homer/" rel="tag">Homer</a>, <a href="/tags/katarzyna-estate/" rel="tag">Katarzyna Estate</a>, <a href="/tags/svilengrad/" rel="tag">Svilengrad</a>, <a href="/tags/thrace/" rel="tag">Thrace</a>, <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">Wine</a>
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<p>Much of modern-day Bulgaria and Northern Greece was inhabited by loosely organized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace">Thracian</a> tribes during the first millennium or so before Christ. Legend has it that they have made wine along the banks of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritsa">Maritsa river</a> for the last 5,000 years. The ancient Greek poet Homer partially corroborates this in his epics written around 800 BCE. From <cite>The Iliad</cite>:</p>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;If you give a Bulgarian man some grapes, he&amp;rsquo;ll want to make wine. After he drinks the wine, he&amp;rsquo;ll want to use the pressed and fermented remains of the grapes to make a traditional brandy called &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakia&#34;&gt;rakia&lt;/a&gt;. This is easily the most famous &lt;em&gt;cliché&lt;/em&gt; about Bulgaria, but in my experience it&amp;rsquo;s not that far from the truth.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 17:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Tanks Rolling Down the Streets of Sofia</title>
<link>/2016/05/tanks-rolling-streets-sofia/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 14:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/2016/05/tanks-rolling-streets-sofia/</guid>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Last night my trolley ride home from downtown Sofia was interrupted by a police roadblock and some rather unusual traffic on Aleksandar Dondukov Boulevard.&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Sofia&#39;s Marvelous Alexander Nevsky Cathedral</title>
<link>/2016/04/sofias-marvelous-alexander-nevsky-cathedral/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/2016/04/sofias-marvelous-alexander-nevsky-cathedral/</guid>
<description>&lt;p&gt;When I first started visiting Bulgaria I was in awe of the beautiful buildings in Sofia. Here you can see the typical vintage of Europe mixed with a bit of the color and flair of the Orient, a combination rarely seen in Western Europe. For the first few months after I moved to Sofia I maintained the position that it was &lt;em&gt;cliché&lt;/em&gt; to say that the &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Sofia&#34;&gt;Alexander Nevsky cathedral&lt;/a&gt; was your favorite building in the city — after all, it is undoubtedly the most famous landmark. But, ladies and gentlemen, this cathedral is absolutely marvelous to behold.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
&lt;img
sizes=&#34;(min-width: 35em) 1200px, 100vw&#34;
srcset=&#39;
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alt=&#34;Sofia&amp;amp;rsquo;s Alexander Nevsky cathedral on a sunny afternoon&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sofia&amp;rsquo;s Alexander Nevsky cathedral on a sunny afternoon&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Vakali Rocks a Packed NDK Auditorium</title>
<link>/2016/03/vakali-rocks-packed-ndk-auditorium/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/2016/03/vakali-rocks-packed-ndk-auditorium/</guid>
<description>&lt;p&gt;How do you write a review of a performance dance group that wears Viking costumes, uses bones to play their drums, and has pyrotechnics so badass that I could feel them twenty rows back in the audience? I was clapping so hard during &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/VAKALI.group/&#34; title=&#34;Vikali group on Facebook&#34;&gt;Vakali&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; performance at the &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.ndk.bg/&#34;&gt;National Palace of Culture (NDK)&lt;/a&gt; in Sofia last week that my hands &lt;em&gt;still hurt&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
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sizes=&#34;(min-width: 35em) 1200px, 100vw&#34;
srcset=&#39;
&#39;
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alt=&#34;Vakali group (from their Facebook page)&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vakali group (from their Facebook page)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;</description>
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<title>Village of Gela, Birthplace of Orpheus</title>
<link>/2016/03/village-gela-birthplace-orpheus/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/2016/03/village-gela-birthplace-orpheus/</guid>
<description>&lt;p&gt;As you drive into the village of Gela in southern Bulgaria a sign informs you that this is the birthplace of &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus&#34;&gt;Orpheus&lt;/a&gt;, the legendary Thracian musician and poet. I&amp;rsquo;m not sure if it&amp;rsquo;s true, but who &lt;em&gt;wouldn&amp;rsquo;t&lt;/em&gt; be able to &amp;ldquo;charm all living things and even stones&amp;rdquo; with their music if they were born in a village with such a view? These are the &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodope_Mountains&#34;&gt;Rhodope Mountains&lt;/a&gt; in the golden afternoon sunlight of early spring.&lt;/p&gt;
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sizes=&#34;(min-width: 35em) 1200px, 100vw&#34;
srcset=&#39;
/2016/03/village-gela-birthplace-orpheus/IMG_20160305_163845_hud2e9e272cc843a8fcd18791bb259851a_2355886_480x0_resize_q75_box.jpg 480w,
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alt=&#34;View of the Rhodope Mountains from Gela, Bulgaria&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;p&gt;View of the Rhodope Mountains from Gela, Bulgaria&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;</description>
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<title>The &#34;Sofia Communist Tour&#34; Is Great</title>
<link>/2016/01/sofia-communist-tour-great/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/2016/01/sofia-communist-tour-great/</guid>
<description>&lt;p&gt;What better vessel could there be than an iconic, former-East-German &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant&#34;&gt;Trabant&lt;/a&gt; for navigating a narrative of Bulgaria&amp;rsquo;s communist era? A few clever young Bulgarians have bought a little blue &amp;ldquo;Trabi&amp;rdquo; and are giving free tours of Sofia with the aim of doing just that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
&lt;img
sizes=&#34;(min-width: 35em) 1200px, 100vw&#34;
srcset=&#39;
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alt=&#34;The East German Trabant is an iconic reminder of Communism in Eastern Europe&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The East German Trabant is an iconic reminder of Communism in Eastern Europe&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;</description>
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<title>Rambling Man With a Torch in Sofia</title>
<link>/2016/01/rambling-man-with-torch-sofia/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/2016/01/rambling-man-with-torch-sofia/</guid>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;STOP!&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; he shouts, right as I&amp;rsquo;m about to take my money from the ATM in downtown Sofia. Alarmed, I turn around to find some bearded man standing right behind me, holding what — at first glance — looks like a gun. &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;Holy shit,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; I think, &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;am I about to get jacked?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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alt=&#34;Butane torch (by Hustvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Butane torch (by Hustvedt, &lt;a href=&#34;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&#34;&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;, via &lt;a href=&#34;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AButane_torch.jpg&#34;&gt;Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-05-16T07:56:02Z">Mon May 16, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<p>The picturesque little city of Vratsa (Враца) sits at the foothills of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_Mountains">Balkan Mountains</a> in Northwest Bulgaria. On a recent road trip I was amazed when I saw the city sitting under the craggy cliffs of the &ldquo;old mountain&rdquo; (<em>Стара Планина</em> / Stara Planina in Bulgarian). What with the water and all it&rsquo;s kind of like a poor man&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town">Cape Town</a>!</p>
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alt="The city of Vratsa below the Balkan mountain"/> <figcaption>
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<p>Last night my trolley ride home from downtown Sofia was interrupted by a police roadblock and some rather unusual traffic on Aleksandar Dondukov Boulevard.</p>
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<p>When I first started visiting Bulgaria I was in awe of the beautiful buildings in Sofia. Here you can see the typical vintage of Europe mixed with a bit of the color and flair of the Orient, a combination rarely seen in Western Europe. For the first few months after I moved to Sofia I maintained the position that it was <em>cliché</em> to say that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Sofia">Alexander Nevsky cathedral</a> was your favorite building in the city — after all, it is undoubtedly the most famous landmark. But, ladies and gentlemen, this cathedral is absolutely marvelous to behold.</p>
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alt="Sofia&amp;rsquo;s Alexander Nevsky cathedral on a sunny afternoon"/> <figcaption>
<p>Sofia&rsquo;s Alexander Nevsky cathedral on a sunny afternoon</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/03/vakali-rocks-packed-ndk-auditorium/">Vakali Rocks a Packed NDK Auditorium</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-03-24T12:28:53Z">Thu Mar 24, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<p>How do you write a review of a performance dance group that wears Viking costumes, uses bones to play their drums, and has pyrotechnics so badass that I could feel them twenty rows back in the audience? I was clapping so hard during <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VAKALI.group/" title="Vikali group on Facebook">Vakali&rsquo;s</a> performance at the <a href="http://www.ndk.bg/">National Palace of Culture (NDK)</a> in Sofia last week that my hands <em>still hurt</em>?</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/03/village-gela-birthplace-orpheus/">Village of Gela, Birthplace of Orpheus</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-03-07T08:56:17Z">Mon Mar 07, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<p>As you drive into the village of Gela in southern Bulgaria a sign informs you that this is the birthplace of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus">Orpheus</a>, the legendary Thracian musician and poet. I&rsquo;m not sure if it&rsquo;s true, but who <em>wouldn&rsquo;t</em> be able to &ldquo;charm all living things and even stones&rdquo; with their music if they were born in a village with such a view? These are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodope_Mountains">Rhodope Mountains</a> in the golden afternoon sunlight of early spring.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="/2016/01/sofia-communist-tour-great/">The &ldquo;Sofia Communist Tour&rdquo; Is Great</a></h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-01-27T13:43:20Z">Wed Jan 27, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<p>What better vessel could there be than an iconic, former-East-German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant">Trabant</a> for navigating a narrative of Bulgaria&rsquo;s communist era? A few clever young Bulgarians have bought a little blue &ldquo;Trabi&rdquo; and are giving free tours of Sofia with the aim of doing just that.</p>
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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-01-04T12:44:05Z">Mon Jan 04, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<p>&ldquo;<em>STOP!</em>&rdquo; he shouts, right as I&rsquo;m about to take my money from the ATM in downtown Sofia. Alarmed, I turn around to find some bearded man standing right behind me, holding what — at first glance — looks like a gun. &ldquo;<em>Holy shit,</em>&rdquo; I think, &ldquo;<em>am I about to get jacked?</em>&rdquo;</p>
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