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      <title>Tanks Rolling Down the Streets of Sofia</title>
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      <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>
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      <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;








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      <title>Vakali Rocks a Packed NDK Auditorium</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <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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      <title>The &#34;Sofia Communist Tour&#34; Is Great</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <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;








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      <title>Rambling Man With a Torch in Sofia</title>
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      <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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