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April 13, 2011

Cleaning of Serdica Western Gate

You have a free weekend in Sofia and you still wonder what to do? On 16 April the non-profit association Potomtsi, or Descendants, is organising a community clean-up of the archaeological site West Gate of Serdica. The event takes place at 10 AM just behind the Cathedral of St Joseph, 146 Prince Boris I Str. Source: HELP SAVING SOFIA’S ROMAN HERITAGE  
April 13, 2011

Most popular songs in Bulgaria

One of our guests from Italy today shot a lot of video so I asked her if she would be so nice to send the files to me. She said she would edit it and make a short video and here it is: The lyrics start with “see how drunk our bodies are”. At first I thought she might have a crush on me but then my huge ego subsided and I realised that she just didn’t know that. As a background song she chose a “chalga” – a genre hated and loved equally strong here in Bulgaria. See below the original song. When I asked her how she chose it, she said she just Googled “most popular Bulgarian song for 2010” and liked the melody because it was really cheerful.
April 10, 2011

Money Talks exhibition in Central Public Bathhouse

Do not miss the “Money Talks” interactive exhibition in the Central Public Bathhouse 13.04 – 10.05. Learn curious facts and theories about Bulgarian banknotes and some of the people on them. Unique chance to see the inside of the bathhouse that has been closed for 25 years 😉 Free entrance (with free English audioguides).
April 10, 2011

FST on Sofia City Info Guide

Sofia City Info Guide presented Free Sofia Tour in its 18th anniversary issue in April 🙂 See the full feature here: http://bit.ly/dRS6cH. Sofia City Info Guide provides up-to-date information about the Sofia City region and is distributed free of charge in a monthly circulation of 20 000 copies.
April 9, 2011

British heavy metal band visits

The British heavy metal band Elixir joined Free Sofia Tour today 🙂 The boys from the band were relatively quiet during the tour but I am sure they probably saved their voices for their performance in The Box club in Sofia tonight. Here’s what they say about us: “…thanks to Boyko from Free Sofia Tour, for a very interesting tour of the city – highly recommended!”
April 8, 2011

FST on Sofia Echo

Sofia Echo’s Senior Editor Gabriel Hershman joined the tour and wrote a review about it: ‎”Just show up. It’s also quite a nice way to meet new people… You’ll be sure to learn something new on this tour and you may even find yourself dancing the horo with your fellow sightseers.” Read the whole piece about the walking tour of Sofia in the print edition or online:  
April 8, 2011

Let’s clean Sofia & Bulgaria in a day

Free Sofia Tour Association supported bTV’s campaign to clean Bulgaria. Starting in Sofia. You can also join (info mainly in Bulgarian): bTV wanted to know the opinion of Free Sofia Tour team and guests about how clean Sofia is. Here’s the answer (unfortunately, bTV Media Group declined our official request to use the video on our YouTube channel in order to put English subtitles and everyone to be able to watch it):  
April 5, 2011

Plovdiv on The Daily Telegraph

Yet another Bulgarian treasure – Plovdiv – is in the spotlight, featured on the pages of The Telegraph 🙂 Definitely worth a visit. Two weeks ago Sofia and Free Sofia Tour were presented by the British daily. See also the Euronews video about Plovdiv: http://www.youtube.com/freesofiatour
March 31, 2011

Eastern Rhodopes Guide

Taste the wild nature of the Eastern Rhodope Mountains, South Bulgaria with the New Thracian Gold project 🙂 The project is also available on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/f90w06 The New Thracian Gold is a project of the Dutch nature preservation organizations ARK and Avalon. By 2014 they will work on supporting economic growth and welfare in the Eastern Rhodopes Mountains by developing activities which combine organic farming, nature preservation and tourism. The project is financially supported by the Dutch Postcode Lottery in the period of 2009 – 2014.