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Okay, we are here in Sighişoara, birthplace of Dracula. And I’ll give you a few pictures from our initial walk in a minute but first I need to tell you something. You know how I don’t really seem to appreciate art the way all of you do? Well, I aim to broaden my horizons in […]

This is of dubious historical interest, but the sociologists out there will be happy to know that there was a baptism celebration at our hotel yesterday and, as we watched them set it up, it seemed like a little bit more…party…than any party I’ve personally been to. As we went down to breakfast, we noticed […]

It was surprisingly emotional to drive across the Danube border point between Bulgaria and Romania, realizing that I’m returning to the country that my entire family had fled by 1919. I’ll never know exactly why they fled, but I can tell you that my great-uncle Abraham, who left Romania in 1917 and lived in New […]

Yurdana says that 55% of Bulgarians smoke, and maybe that’s true, but the 45% non-smoking population is nowhere to be seen. In cafes, outside on the streets, near churches, well, we’re only surrounded by the smokers. At our last hotel, we happened to be staying there in the company of dozens of soccer teams, and, […]