Три мекици и една кола
In the last several weeks, I’ve had a chance to experience Bulgaria through the eyes of a first-time visitor. The first couple of days were a tiny bit stressful and I worried. How do you explain a place without listing all the trivial facts?! What if you never paid attention in school and don't even know the facts? How do you make sense of a tradition that means nothing to you?! How do you feed a vegetarian when all the vegetarian options on the menu are limited to several different types of potato dishes and a couple of variations of roasted peppers?! Do you ask them to drink ракия?! Which Bulgarian phrases do you teach them first?!
Then, two days into the trip, he learned to order мекици IN BULGARIAN and as ridiculous as it may sound, that made relax.
Bulgaria, just like any other place, is truly wonderful when you have a good person to share it with.
Summer is almost over but that’s OK. There’s a lot of good stuff coming up. I promise to keep you posted.
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Photo by Prof. Grady
Then, two days into the trip, he learned to order мекици IN BULGARIAN and as ridiculous as it may sound, that made relax.
Bulgaria, just like any other place, is truly wonderful when you have a good person to share it with.
Summer is almost over but that’s OK. There’s a lot of good stuff coming up. I promise to keep you posted.
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Photo by Prof. Grady
6 Comments:
summer is almost over. sigh. so much for my late-spring visit to Sofia. it turns out to be nearly impossible to redeem frequent flier miles for spring-through-summer travel to Europe.
next year maybe.
sonyphone
no maybe. definitely! you should come!
OK - I did develop a taste for rakia while I was there.
Still not very far long on the Bulgarian alphabet, though. While we were there, my wife asked our friend what a "pectopaht" was :-)
The Cyrillic alphabet can definitely be confusing. For example, I JUST learned that there is a Bulgarian and a Russian version of the alphabet and here in Bulgaria, we use both. Now, I always thought that the different letters were just different fonts but apparently that's not the case. Try to explain that to a non-Slavic person trying to learn Bulgarian for the first time...
as a vegetarian (and 8 year rakia drinker), you tell them to order shopska (or ovcharska bez shunkata) and tell them to drink (read sip here) the rakia with tarator
iniarebel,
i think he managed pretty well. :D
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