My first encounter with Romania was December 24, 1989. The Ceausescu’s were on TV, propped up against a wall. A few seconds later: the sound of gunfire and the dictator husband and wife lay dead on the ground. The revolution was underway. That was about all I knew of Romania until this week.
Bucharest, of […]

Sixty years ago today we made a serious mistake.

We spent three days in the mountain village of Koprivshitsa for the Bulgarian International Folk Festival, held every five years. I’ve written alot about it and the last few days but I don’t have time to get it online right now. I did take a lot of pictures and some video clips so those should […]

Most people in America likely have a fuzzy idea (as I did until recently) of what Bulgaria is like from the various news reports and glances at the occasional world atlas: Balkan state, formerly Communist beneath the Soviet shadow, emerging capitalist economy for the last 15 years. Those of us who have read their Lonely […]