I love Bulgaria as much as the next girl so I wasn't too surprised when a couple of my Bulgarian friends sent me links to a new-ish youtube piece about the History of Sofia.

I queued it up last week thinking I'd watch it while I was toasting some bread for dinner. Turns out that what I thought was a clip was actually a 28 minute video about Sofia.  That's intense.

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And really, who needs to watch a 28 minute video about the history of Sofia? Not me.

Okay, okay. I figured that I'd watch it. At some point. After I'd watched all of the Daily Show episodes I was behind on.

I started it on Sunday but it's pretty slow paced and kind of ridiculous. Then one minute and fifty seconds in, I sort of starting getting into the horrible-ridiculousness of the video. I don't know who wrote the script but it's wild.

It includes such gems as:
<ul>
	<li> Sofia hasn't grown old. It's grown extremely wise. [1:50]</li>
	<li>Constantin the Great was in love with Serdica. [3:40]</li>
	<li>More steal was used for its construction [NDK--the National Palace of Culture in the 1980s] than for the Eiffel Tower. [24:50]</li>
	<li>Sofia is not old. It's ancient. [25:45]</li>
	<li>In less than an hour you can experience all the stages of [Sofia's] history. [somewhere right before the end]</li>
</ul>
Yeah, you might just want to skip right to the best parts of the video. Or if you think you'd like to save yourself some time and energy hoofing it around town checking the sights out for yourself you could plop down and watch the whole half hour video.

The thing I don't get is why this guy who clearly likes Sofia enough to make a fairly legit albeit annoyingly boring video about this city would then reduce the city and the complex and extensive history into something one can see in less than an hour.

Also, I don't know how Terry is getting from the city center to Boyana Church round trip in an hour but I'd like to ride with him next time.