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May 24, 2011

Happy National Day of Culture and Alphabet

Bulgaria celebrates May 24 24th May. Bulgarians from around the country and the world paid tribute to the deed of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. They are creators of the Cyrillic alphabet. If you want to learn more about the Glagolitic and the Cyrillic alphabets, Free Sofia Tour is the place to be 😉 Read more: Bulgaria Celebrates National Day of Culture and Slavic Script
May 18, 2011

Exhibition at the Central Public Bathhouse

You have another chance to take a peek inside the Central Public Bathhouse. The “Al fin y al cabo” exhibition of beautiful photos from Andalusia by Carlos Pérez Siquier is free and open Mon-Sat between 10:00-19:00 until 19th of June. More here: В края на краищата
May 18, 2011

FST in One Week in Sofia (Една седмица в София)

An Australian girl who visited Free Sofia Tour with Misha mentioned it in the latest edition of One Week in Sofia (Една седмица в София) magazine. Here’s what she says: “I went to the free tour of the city. Usually I don’t like official tours but this was extra-casual and when it was over the whole group went to have lunch together”
May 13, 2011

Sofia is a pleasant surprise

The visitors are pleasantly surprised from Sofia! A lot of people come with zero expectations to Sofia. These people are usually pleasantly surprised. However, there’s still a group of people that come with the negative attitude. They expecting the city to be very dirty, ugly and dangerous. Now these are the really surprised people. Very often guests tell us after the tour that during their stay in Sofia their perspective has been turned upside-down. They like how green, beautiful and orderly our city is. And everything bad gets labelled “exotic”. Of course, it’s always different when you live in a city for years and that’s also why it’s so interesting to see Sofia through our guests’ eyes. If you want to know what else foreigners think of Sofia, read “A Green and Clean City in a Foreigner’s Eye” by Iva Toncheva of Bulgarian News Agency (BTA).  
May 10, 2011

Small world

One of the good things about Free Sofia Tour This is that it gets together travellers from many different countries. We’ve had visitors from around 70 countries and very often have groups with guests from 4 or 5 different continents. It’s a small world and our tour makes it even smaller so very often there are funny coincidences. Just a couple of examples: Once half-way through the tour two girls from Germany and two girls from the Philippines realised they live just two blocks from each other in… Vienna. At the end of the tour I ask a guy from Turkey what does he do. He says he studies in the Netherlands. Which city? Tilburg. Where does he live? Goirkestraat. Which number? 154. Well, I spent one year studying at UvT on Goirkestraat 156.
May 9, 2011

Happy Europe Day

Happy Europe day! Check out some of the events in Sofia that would mark the anniversary of 1950 Schuman declaration, considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. Yesterday and today are celebrated across the world also as the end of WWII in Europe. Read more: Commissioner Georgieva to Greet Bulgarians on Europe Day Eve