I’ve been living in Bulgaria for 2 months already hence I noticed some differences. In other words, what is so special in Bulgaria? Here is the list of my first impressions.
1. Greetings. Politeness? Mostly sales assistants greet with customers and wish a good day. It’s unusual for me either because they speak Bulgarian or I forgot how it was back in my hometown. In a grocery I'm not asked whether I need a bag with me or not I'm wished a good day.
2. Zavkyshte is the most useful word in a café which means – to go. Almost in any cafe, even the smallest one, it's possible to order food to go.
3. Huge portions. Here for a cheap price I can eat 600gr of pasta with meat or 400gr of salad despite the usual 150\200. Impressive!
4. Most of the cafes here are open 24\7. It’s okay to go to the cafe at 2am. Some of bistros pizza places opens at 12 or 2 am!
5. Mayo, ketchup, chili pepper, vinegar, oil are in the usual kit on your table in any café for free.
6. Crazy drivers. Always be very careful while passing the road here, sometimes cars don’t stop. They just make a lower speed, slow down for a while and as soon as you 1 cm forward, a car will very fast run out behind your back. Watch out !
7. Police. Here is the law that forbids listening to loud music from 2pm-4 pm. While we were shooting Lip-Dub in AUBG someone called to the police because we were playing the music. The campuses are pretty far from ordinary houses and not many people walk by dorms. Uhm.
8. Tradition. I don’t know if this is a tradition or not but I’ve noticed “posters” with a picture of a person that died and these “signs” ask you to pray for him\her. This is creepy.
9. Roads. Roads here are mostly good. There used to be huge hole on the way to the university but after a month, maybe,the road was repaired but not perfectly.
10. It’s almost clean here. There's no "doggy stuff" on your way.
11. Horses. Sometimes you see horses on a road ridden by Romans. By the way, there are many romans around the area.
12. A large amount of European food and even the water from South Korea can easily be found in shops here .
13. Usually, at 8 am there are no empty tables in cafes. Bulgarians like to have a cup of coffee chatting with colleagues on the way to work. Unusual, to see crowds of people sitting in a cafe at 8 AM!
14. Sirene. Bulgarians adore putting sirene (white salty cheese) everywhere. Very popular here are banitzas ( baked filo pastry with sirene).
To be continued…
Really nice, but you're wrong about the roads. They are awful.
ReplyDeleteWell, comparing to the roads in my country which are full of holes and nobody cares about them; it's even impossible to stay on your seat because you're going to "jump" out of it all the time, Blagoevgrad is great. There are nice roads even in outback of the city!
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