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Еднопосочен билет до Луната
- Спрете! Спрете Земята, искам да сляза! - някой рязко извика от задните седалки.
Капитанът на “Планетарен експрес” въздъхна. Такива случаи не бяха рядкост. Ако сега спреше, го чакаха поне час мърморене, тюхкане и недоволство от редовните пътници, защото щяха да изостанат от графика. Графикът беше за всички на тази…
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We remember the Heroes, but do the Heroes want to remember us?
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*This text is available in English and Bulgarian \ Този текст е наличен на Английски и Български*
We remember the Heroes, but do Heroes want to remember us?
I ponder this question as I walk through the yellowed grass that grows to my knees, being brushed by the light evening…
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Dancing on fire
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I once walked on fire. Literally. You don’t believe me? - just check these traditional fire dancers, the nestinari, who dance barefoot on the fire coals. Their ritual has been existing for ages,…
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Baba Metza train journey
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Back in 2016 BDZ (Bulgaria’s state railroad operator) launched a holiday tour with a train that just came out of restoration - a tender locomotive built in 1931, series 46.03, known as “Baba…
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Behind the eyes of the beast
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*This text is available in English and Bulgarian \ Този текст е наличен на Английски и Българиски*
Kukeri are colorful, unusual, scary, wonderful, and above all, mystical. Also known as chaushi, dervishes and babugers, they are all masks of various creatures - beasts, forest creatures and even the devil himself-…
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Good Friday
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*This text is available in English and Bulgarian \ Този текст е наличен на Английски и Българиски*
These photos show something that does not happen anymore. Probably for good. I remember, on every Good Friday in the city where I grew up, something not exactly Christian happened. It was a…
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