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When the winter chill seeps through to your bones, when all of your muscles are tense both from the cold and the awkward position you assume in your chair in front of a computer, what would be a good winter warmer? A cup of hot tea or cappuccino? Not enough. This spa experience does so much more.
I stumbled upon Hitriya Petel (The Cunning Rooster, named after a Bulgarian folk tale) in early March, while looking for refreshments after a shopping tour. The building near the "little five corners", off Graf Ignatiev Street, had until recently housed the pizzeria Zion and the change came as a surprise. Another surprise was the creative menu where the chicken ice cream stood out and overrode my decision to only have a drink.
When a usually short drive of 100 km and about an hour and a half turns into a two-day trip, one must remember that the journey is not about the destination. Can the road to Blagoevgrad in southwest Bulgaria be more than 300 km? Yes it can, and most enjoyably so. As three of my friends and I set out in two cars to visit our Alma Mater in Blagoevgrad for a reunion this May, we saw on our way curious rock
I do not like Marilyn Manson. Me being me, though, I occasionally indulge in challenging my paradigms and exposing myself to things I generally consider shocking or repulsive, watching Quentin Tarantino movies and exploring the art of photographer Andres Serrano being some of the examples. And there I was, on US Independence Day, wrung out from the snug comfort of my routine, on my way to
Travelling to an unfamiliar city made me feel uneasy. But before I left home to catch the night train to Belgrade, my boyfriend assured me that it would not be much different from Sofia. On the cool spring morning of my arrival, about 6am, Belgrade was not awake yet and the only sounds came from occasional trams. The building of the train station, glowing in a warm yellow at sunrise, indeed reminded me of
Monday, 11am. The Features Editor comes knocking at my door. "Hi, I know I owe you a diary," I say even before she has opened her mouth. I promise her to write it in the evening and deliver it the next day. I am quite convinced that I will produce a masterpiece to follow up "the diary of the future". Yet this time my mind is buzzing with thoughts to such an extent that I am helpless and overwhelmed by them and I can't decide
Monday, May 22. I do design. Or, rather, design does me. It's Monday, 8.30 pm, and I have just arrived home straight from work. Today I single-handedly finished a 24-page magazine. I did it in three working days - quite the feat, as I have been doing a bunch of tiny things in the meantime: scanning somebody's photo of something, sending some logo to someone, opening some ad and converting it into a usable
A second `pumpkin' helping will delight Bulgarian metal fans, as legendary German band Helloween comes back to Sofia for a show which promises to be as rousing as their previous performance in December 2003. Helloween will play in Bulgaria on January 29 to promote their latest studio album, Keeper of the Seven Keys - the Legacy (released in October 2005), as part of their European tour of the same name.
The mind is like a drunken monkey, Swami Niranjan-ananda had said, it constantly jumps here and there. Amidst ringing phones, the steady traffic through the front office and the chatter of colleagues, I remember the voice of my yoga teacher saying: "If your mind is not right here, right now, focused on this practice, pull it gently back to the present".
IVAN "The Amoeba" Nestorov is one of the few people in Bulgaria promoting Bulgarian music and performers both within the country and beyond its borders.
A dream came true for many enthusiastic Bulgarian rock fans at the concert of progressive metal giants Dream Theater. The quintet performed songs from its most recent studio album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, at a show in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture on Wednesday.
A runoff of last Saturday's partial local elections in Blagoevgrad, Rousse, Omurtag and Tsarevo will take place Sunday due to record low voting activity.
The Greek Latsis Group has expressed an interest in buying the 67 per cent majority stake in Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan from its current owner, Daewoo Engineering & Construction, stock exchange sources quoted by Pari daily said on Tuesday.
A petition signed by about 500,000 Bulgarians demanding a referendum on the future of the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Kozlodui was handed to parliamentary Speaker Ognian Gerdjikov at a rally at Alexander Nevski Square last Thursday.
Talking on a mobile phone without using a hands-free device while driving will incur a fine of 30 leva, the amended Road Traffic Act stipulates.
Analysts have commented that the support received by political parties' candidates, who will contest for the mayors' places in Blagoevgrad and Rousse tomorrow, will show the possible outcome of the next parliamentary elections.
A bill proposed by the opposition United Democratic Forces (UtDF) to promote equal opportunities for both sexes was rejected in Parliament last Wednesday.
A million Bulgarians are below the absolute poverty line, representatives of the World Bank (WB) announced last Thursday, presenting the latest report of the bank on living standards at a two-day seminar in Bulgaria.
Prosecutor General Nikola Filchev told the media last Friday that by May 20, the preliminary investigation into the accident in front of Indigo discotheque should be completed.
Foreign investment in Bulgaria hit record high levels in the last quarter of 2001, reaching $194.4 million, up from $114 million in the third quarter and $100 million in the second quarter.
Contrary to popular belief, ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand when they are scared. But it is true that they are the second fastest animal on earth and that they lay the biggest eggs.
Since April 1, legal taxicabs have been required to display hologram stickers on their windshields, after a corrected ordinance on taxi transportation was published in the State Gazette on March 22.
Debts of the national air carrier Balkan have risen almost twofold since the last calculation half a year ago, and now amount to about 292 million leva.
Boiko Borissov, chief secretary of the Interior Ministry, reached a record high level of public approval recently, in a poll conducted between March 20 and 25 by the National Centre for Studying Public Opinion (NCSPO).
Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed condolences to the British Royal Family shortly after they heard the news that Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, had passed away on Saturday.
The European Union is preparing 10 weddings and two funerals, Foreign Minister Solomon Passi said at the opening of the Wilton Park conference in the Boyana residence on Tuesday, commenting on the 10 plus two accession formula.
The five MPs who quit the National Movement Simeon II (NMSII) were removed from their positions in committees after a heated two-hour discussion last Thursday.
Swedish bearings giant SKF has signed a privatisation contract for a bearings plant which is a self-standing part of the Vazov Mechanical Engineering Works (VMZ) in Sopot in Central Bulgaria.
Leaders of the opposition parliamentary forces Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) exchanged letters last week expressing readiness for dialogue and joint actions.
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