INSERT INTO `wp_comments` VALUES (2140,3111,'i','ivanmanolov@yahoo.com','','77.85.94.249','2010-08-03 01:17:22','2010-08-03 00:17:22','i just flew in last week and let me tell you what my first impressions were.\n\nyes, terminal 2 is very modern and shiny and spacious. easily accessible by cab or public transportation, but:\n\nthere wast a single restaurant at the gate area. i saw two ridiculously overpriced coffee/snack places, but forget about a real meal if you are starving.\n\ni went through 4 different restrooms and im afraid to use certain adjectives to describe the experience, i will most likely scare a good portion of your readers away with what i have to say. i did see a janitor talking on her cell phone and was very tempted to interrupt her very important conversation. wanted to let her know how impressed i was with the level of filthiness, but figured this is just how it is. new terminal, same mentality.\n\nwhen do you fly back to the states? up for some coffee?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2141,3111,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-08-03 09:57:36','2010-08-03 08:57:36','Actually the bridge leading to the airport (longest in Bulgaria, btw) has some structural problems. There were accidents with concrete pieces falling over cars underneath, etc.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2142,3111,'N.','nico@mail.bg','','85.130.7.79','2010-08-06 21:15:24','2010-08-06 20:15:24','Actually the longest bridge in Bulgaria is Asparuhov bridge in Varna. This is, if you didn\'t have in mind the longest airport in Bulgaria, in which case I suppose you\'re right. As for Sofia Airport, it\'s only good when you\'re leaving the country for the better part of the world.',0,'1','','',2141,0),(2143,3111,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-08-09 07:03:49','2010-08-09 06:03:49','You are wrong about that. Asparuhov bridge has the longest span in Bulgaria (160m) but its total length is ~2000m and the new airport bridge is about 2400m long.',0,'1','','',2142,0),(2144,3113,'Lynne Anderson','lynne@kvintners.com','','64.35.142.50','2010-08-06 00:20:11','2010-08-05 23:20:11','Actually the billbaord says \"WASHINGTON WINE IS SO.....ROCK \'N\' ROLL\"....just wanted to be clear that we are not excluding the rest of the state even though we love Walla Walla!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2145,3113,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','71.94.187.216','2010-08-06 14:33:56','2010-08-06 13:33:56','@Lynne Anderson Oh. Good to know. I like Washington wines too but closer to my heart are the Walla Walla wines. It\'s funny how you read/remember what you want to when you\'re jet-lagged and speeding by in a car driving 60 mph! And luckily for me, my parents have already planned a wine tasting route that includes K Vintners on Saturday!',0,'1','','',2144,0),(2146,3113,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','137.22.224.6','2010-08-06 15:49:52','2010-08-06 14:49:52','Your post makes it sound like you haven\'t had cheese curds before, is that true?  On the menu in Wisconsin yesterday I saw \"deep fried cheese curds\" paired with the word \"delicious.\"  Surely Wisconsin must be the home of cheese curds – there you see highway signs saying CHEESE floating among the gas and fast food freeway-style signs.  And sure enough, you can buy cheese, all kinds of cheese and plenty of cheese curds, at these establishments.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2147,3117,'Uncle Hicks','jfemigh@aol.com','','69.220.184.198','2010-08-06 20:49:32','2010-08-06 19:49:32','I would be happy to send you some 50 cent pieces to make your transition easier.  Sorry I didn\'t know you were coming through Chicago or we would have tried to see you.\nUncle Hicks',0,'1','','',0,0),(2148,3117,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','71.94.187.216','2010-08-06 21:40:55','2010-08-06 20:40:55','@Uncle Hicks Don\'t worry about it. I was only in Chicago for 2 1/2 hours. It was quick, quick on my way to Seattle. As for the 50 cent pieces... I am guessing that they might not go over big in Walla Walla these days.',0,'1','','',2147,0),(2149,3117,'bendyourcircuit','glutathione@gmail.com','http://bendyourcircuit.wordpress.com/','134.99.134.108','2010-08-07 14:53:02','2010-08-07 13:53:02','Sorry, but I still don\'t get it. Why do you write MoM and dAd like that?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2150,3117,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-08-07 15:29:25','2010-08-07 14:29:25','OMG, you don\'t have 50 cent coin. This is a crime, really :). Funny story :). Have a nice stay at home :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2151,3123,'dawsr','cimbrio@hotmail.com','','80.103.183.88','2010-08-09 00:28:16','2010-08-08 23:28:16','You make sure you say hi to your MoM and AuNtY AuDrEy from Me, Ok?\n\nHow bout a trip to Madrid as of October? I\'ll have a nice flat all to myself (hopefully!).\n\nOh Narcissa Whitman, you always know how to make me laugh...',0,'1','','',0,0),(2152,3123,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','75.150.251.17','2010-08-09 05:37:28','2010-08-09 04:37:28','This is a much better story than the one your MoM told me.  And true (or so I think).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2153,3123,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-08-09 18:14:34','2010-08-09 17:14:34','It\'s about time to show us more pictures from Walla Walla with your new haircut(which is not so new any more:),how did your perents find you that way:),because I did and I still do like you very much with the new hair:)\n\n\nTake care and enjoy your US stay as much as you can!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2154,3130,'whitneybg','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.254.113','2010-08-12 07:48:12','2010-08-12 06:48:12','Ate some of these just the other day. They were delicious! I wish I had a yummy food named after the city I am from. Alas, if there were one it would likely be some sort of jello with vegetables inserted (a Utah reference in case you\'ve never had the pleasure of eating our \"famous\" green Jello-O with carrots!).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2155,3150,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','216.186.42.218','2010-08-12 18:30:00','2010-08-12 17:30:00','I think my favorite part of this is that dAd told you he had finished reading everything else on the internet. That must have been a busy day for him.\nThanks for explaining about Szimpla.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2156,3150,'Robyn','robyndyanrusso@mail.com','','98.233.48.146','2010-08-12 18:57:57','2010-08-12 17:57:57','I am so happy to see Szimpla well explained -- to me, it is the epitome of everything that is awesome about Hungary: it\'s random, there is art on the walls, you can wear whatever you want and just have a great time.\nAnd the beer is cheap.\n\nBut you forgot to mention that there are also bathtubs you can sit in as well. I mean, I find the bathtubs to be especially wonderful.\n\nTell Dave and Jilly Emigh I said \"hi\" and thank them again for all their great advice with our small travel...err...\"issue\" :-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2157,3150,'teo','copingkoala@yahoo.com','http://copingkoala.wordpress.com','129.70.171.225','2010-08-12 21:18:27','2010-08-12 20:18:27','Szimpla sounds like a nice place to have a drink, I love bars with a story, a spirit or just kind of authentic atmosphere :) And make sure to find other stuff to read on the net for your father :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2158,3158,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-08-13 06:11:48','2010-08-13 05:11:48','Well,well a TV star,second interview for BG magazine,Carolyn, you are famous:)!\n\nCan\'t wait for the September issue of the magazine!\n\nWishing you all the best!\n\nGive my regards to Walla Walla and of course to your familly!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2159,3158,'A','mindil@abv.bg','','85.130.37.94','2010-08-22 18:09:29','2010-08-22 17:09:29','\" parents\' \", not \" parent\'s \" :)\n\nLove, A',0,'1','','',0,0),(2160,3185,'kateshrewsday','katepitt5467@googlemail.com','http://kateshrewsday.wordpress.com','86.21.123.191','2010-08-14 20:53:52','2010-08-14 19:53:52','Habit\'s a funny thing....and its the tiny habits, day in, day out, that make us feel at home. I have grown up with lights in the bathrooms. I must try hallway switches sometime....maybe it\'ll change my whole perspective.....',0,'1','','',0,0),(2161,3185,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.174.18','2010-08-16 14:26:57','2010-08-16 13:26:57','There are plenty of hall switches in older homes in the US in diverse parts of the country.  Walla Walla for one.  Louisville for another.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2162,3185,'Nick','nick@macheesmo.com','http://www.macheesmo.com','208.73.109.10','2010-08-17 16:36:57','2010-08-17 15:36:57','Hey!  You\'re talkin\' about my house!\n\nThere are light switches in the hall... they just control the lights... in the hall.\n\nPutting bathroom light switches in the hall just seems like a recipe for practical jokes.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2163,3185,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.174.18','2010-08-17 16:48:47','2010-08-17 15:48:47','And my house.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2165,3188,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-08-23 12:12:09','2010-08-23 11:12:09','Don\'t you wish to get back to living in Washington, DC?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2166,3201,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-08-25 16:46:07','2010-08-25 15:46:07','I know the feeling - my commute to work was just increased by 30 minutes and my morning frustration by 100%:(',0,'1','','',0,0),(2167,3201,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-08-25 19:51:00','2010-08-25 18:51:00','So glad to hear that soon you will be back:)Your Sofia friends are waiting for you:)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2168,3201,'aunt jane','jlaaker@marywalker.org','','216.186.60.201','2010-08-26 18:54:36','2010-08-26 17:54:36','Hey,\n\nI\'m at school and I am suppost to be getting ready for class next week-instead I\'m reading your blog-go figure.\n\nI have not had one of those dreams yet this year!!!!\n\nlove aunt jane',0,'1','','',0,0),(2169,3208,'lilia','liliana033@gmail.com','','84.21.221.222','2010-08-27 16:16:19','2010-08-27 15:16:19','Това е любимо за мен.Обожавам  го',0,'1','','',0,0),(2170,3208,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','71.94.184.130','2010-08-27 16:50:31','2010-08-27 15:50:31','@lilia ha, ha, ha! Аз също.',0,'1','','',2169,0),(2171,3208,'charlotte','Charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','216.186.42.218','2010-08-27 17:10:59','2010-08-27 16:10:59','I am so jealous! I love blueberries. Mmmmm blueberry crisp.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2172,3216,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.174.18','2010-08-28 14:28:50','2010-08-28 13:28:50','This makes me very nostalgic for last summer and our family visit to your cabin although Chris probably would rather not remember the whole of that experience.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2173,3216,'davemade','wallawallalocal@gmail.com','http://wallawallalocal.wordpress.com','71.94.184.130','2010-08-28 15:47:04','2010-08-28 14:47:04','For the best effect, you really ought to have the graham crackers and chocolate squares completely ready before you roast the marshmallows.  Otherwise you don\'t get the optimal melting of the chocolate.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2174,3216,'Kellie','connorsk@gmail.com','','71.14.6.118','2010-08-30 01:58:29','2010-08-30 00:58:29','My mother-in-law is here from Bulgaria for the summer, and she had her first s’mores.  She LOVED it!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2175,3216,'Kellie','connorsk@gmail.com','','71.14.6.118','2010-08-30 02:00:15','2010-08-30 01:00:15','For the record, I LOVE them burn :-)',0,'1','','',2174,0),(2176,3232,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.48','2010-08-29 11:12:18','2010-08-29 10:12:18','It\'s a win-win situation. The teacher satisfies her urge to teach, and the Internet gets a new addict ;-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2177,3232,'Kellie','connorsk@gmail.com','','71.14.6.118','2010-08-30 01:56:24','2010-08-30 00:56:24','I love it, I will start to read your DaD\'s blog too!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2178,3247,'dawsr','cimbrio@hotmail.com','','80.103.186.126','2010-08-30 14:12:54','2010-08-30 13:12:54','Darlin\', found a gorgeous flat in Madrid, so you\'re welcome to come at any time you want to (as long as we fix a date that suits us both). I\'d love it if you could make it for Thanksgiving, I\'ll take you to drink lots of beer and eat ribs and BBQ sauce. E-mail me if you make up your mind! :)\n\nKiss Kiss',0,'1','','',0,0),(2179,3251,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.232','2010-08-31 21:28:47','2010-08-31 20:28:47','Welocme back! You missed the scorching heat.\nWhen I want to avoid unpacking, I just do it little by little. I put the suitcase/bag/whatever somewhere out of the way (like under a table) and only take stuff out of it when I need it. I wear it, wash it and then put it in the wardrobe. Sooner or later the whole transfer is complete with minimal effort. You could try this. If you\'re lazy enough. :P',0,'1','','',0,0),(2180,3259,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-09-02 10:05:46','2010-09-02 09:05:46','What they sell in those small vials is not rose water for sure. It\'s rather a solution of rose oil.\n\nThe rose water is a different product - basically what is left after the extraction of the rose oil.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2181,3259,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','74.241.20.218','2010-09-02 14:41:12','2010-09-02 13:41:12','When we first came to Kentucky I took a Medieval English history grad level course. The paper I wrote was about spices and artifice in Medieval aristocratic cookery.  In the Sunset Magazine tradition I decided to test my hypothesis about cooking with period spices, it turned out to be quite an adventure.  Along the way I realized that vanilla and chocolate are mostly Renaissance developments in western food preparation. Most of the popular (read prestigious) spices used among the upper classes tended to be discoveries brought back from the crusades in the Middle East, spices we now associate particularly with Christmas.  This was the one time that we the people got to eat anything that had these spices in it due to the invitations the farm folk and villagers received to feast at the local manor house or castle. Among these spices are cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and rose water.  Rose water had great popularity before the discovery of vanilla.  It turns out that it tastes good in food but only if you can get out of your mind that you are not eating something cosmetic.  Once you can think of cake and not cheap hand lotion from the dime store the cake tastes pretty good.  We used rose water in a little hands-on cooking event with the kids in grade school activity, the school kids had a similar response. In general, we liked it, but it is easy to understand how vanilla pushed it out of the picture.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2182,3259,'Yo','Yolina.Stoyanova@gmail.com','','178.198.22.254','2010-09-07 20:41:10','2010-09-07 19:41:10','I am big fan of rose water! I buy it from the drug stores (apteka) when I am back home in Bulgaria. It is fantastic natural product and I use the same one on my face as tonic water and in food recipes (it is even written on the label in English that it\'s ok for both purposes). It is not like eating lipstick, it\'s rather like chamomile - it works as tea if you have a cold and at the same time as refreshing tonic for your skin.\nTry it ;)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2183,3259,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-08 05:36:13','2010-09-08 04:36:13','@Yo Perfect!! That is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks so much. Rose water cooking here I come.',0,'1','','',2182,0),(2184,3259,'eva','evapopov@hotmail.com','','24.248.97.150','2010-09-09 20:39:33','2010-09-09 19:39:33','Never cooked with rose water, but love it as a toner/refresher',0,'1','','',0,0),(2185,3265,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-09-02 07:11:56','2010-09-02 06:11:56','Wow, sorry. I thought it - \"What American are you if you don\'t worship McDonald\'s?\" Sorry, really.\nNice post, though.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2186,3265,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-02 08:27:47','2010-09-02 07:27:47','Wow! You did have a realization, did you? It\'s ugly. The only constant beautiful thing is the close mountain view. But that still counts a lot.\nAs I have suggested before - visit the Business Park also - we do have a virtual reality here - in the midst of the ugly Mladost.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2187,3265,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-09-02 09:38:09','2010-09-02 08:38:09','You realize Mladost is ugly now? I thought you haven\'t mentioned it before out of politeness or because of your positive attitude.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2188,3265,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.25','2010-09-02 10:05:09','2010-09-02 09:05:09','About 25 years ago, I went to my first trip to (West) Germany and when I came back I hat to visit a friend of mine, who lived in the tall apartment block near the Shell gas station. I remember looking exactly that place from the bus window and I thought to myself - \"Oh, my God, Sofia is so ugly!\". You don\'t have to apologize. It is ugly.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2189,3265,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2010-09-02 11:39:05','2010-09-02 10:39:05','All residential areas with concrete panel flats built during the comunism in each Bulgarian town are ugly. Ugly, grey and depressing and they seem all the same to me. There are no trees, no colours, no nature. (P.S. Welcome back :) Добре дошла!)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2190,3265,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-02 14:44:28','2010-09-02 13:44:28','Maybe this will come as a surprise but many Americans don\'t like McDonald\'s... as a matter of fact this is the one place that gets the most grief about the low quality of their food.\n\nI think the McCafe came about exactly for this reason - to try to beat the low quality reputation. I\'ve seen McDonald\'s locations having face-lifts in several states (meaning at least Kentucky and Illinois). Now why they would do it in Bulgaria is a mystery to me... But in the US they are trying to portray McDonald as an upscale cafe with higher quality food and low prices...oh and they put a lot of emphasis on their coffee beverages for some reason...',0,'1','','',2185,0),(2191,3265,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-02 15:18:45','2010-09-02 14:18:45','Mistery? We like nice cafes also :)',0,'1','','',2190,0),(2192,3265,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-02 15:24:50','2010-09-02 14:24:50','@Helen\nMy point was that from what I remember, McDonald\'s has much better reputation in Bulgaria. McDonald\'s was expensive and it was the cool place to go for my birthday or if I did well in school. In that sense the \"face-lift\" seems pointless especially considering the fact that they are not changing their concept - just their looks.\n\nThat being said, my information about how cool McDonald\'s is in Bulgaria is about four years old so maybe things have changed and refreshing the image was indeed necessary...',0,'1','','',2190,0),(2193,3265,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-09-03 15:16:42','2010-09-03 14:16:42','My Bulgarian home is in Musagenitsa, next door to Mladost, and as a native Bulgarian I can assure you - it\'s damn ugly, how did it elude you so far I don\'t know :) Compensate with nice experiences! :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2194,3265,'Deia','deia@mail.bg','','64.30.2.130','2010-09-05 03:56:30','2010-09-05 02:56:30','Hey :)\n\nI think this was a pretty amazing post. Especially the last paragraph :)\nI hope you had a good summer!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2195,3278,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com/','174.23.245.176','2010-09-04 19:15:45','2010-09-04 18:15:45','Here\'s to another year of great blog posts! Wishing you the best of luck. Hope your 3rd year in BG is the best yet!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2196,3278,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-04 19:45:53','2010-09-04 18:45:53','@Whitney Thanks so much. I am looking forward to it!',0,'1','','',2195,0),(2197,3278,'Djgeorgie','georgijivankin@gmail.com','http://www.georgijivankin.com','78.83.97.48','2010-09-04 23:53:28','2010-09-04 22:53:28','Well, congratulations for the beginning of year 3. We\'re really looking forward to reading new and interesting posts written by you as always and I wish you more years to come in Sofia City - enjoy! :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2198,3285,'lilia','lidiapetrova@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-09-05 08:45:06','2010-09-05 07:45:06','Борбата с мравки си е трудна.Ще я докарам до край.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2199,3285,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-09-05 12:01:08','2010-09-05 11:01:08','I thought it would be funny to release the ants under your door the first time, but now that they have gotten so annoying as to get a dedicated post, i may stop coming by :)\n\nWelcome back to Mladost :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2200,3285,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-05 12:05:28','2010-09-05 11:05:28','@andreytcho That\'s so cruel! But really, it\'s okay to stop. Now.',0,'1','','',2199,0),(2201,3285,'lilolme','Info@kuturak.net','','213.145.98.14','2010-09-05 22:07:14','2010-09-05 21:07:14','Perhaps there\'s a hidden stash of sweet sweet honey somewhere in your apartment. :p :)\nI had some ant infestation this summer; one day they simply disappeared. I\'m still puzzled.\nIf there is indeed a crevice the ants use as an entrance, it would be better to plug that, instead of dispensing chemical agents of death.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2202,3285,'studioreforma','boyan@studioreforma.com','','87.126.188.82','2010-09-18 13:58:56','2010-09-18 12:58:56','Fighting the ants alone is just impossible. It is not a matter of leaving out foods or stg, once they get the habbit of walking around your place they will keep on going, unless you destroy their own home , which is usually impossible to find. Leaving out parsley on their usual trails would make them go away, but they will return as soon as you remove and let\'s face it - you can\'t live in a field of parsley... So whether you like it or not, the only option is call a company to come and spray with special chemicals - they have a slow reaction, meaning that the ants will get some \"food\" and manage to bring it back to the other ants - everyone eats and everyone dies. I had ants at home and it took me months to figure out that you can\'t fight them alone. I used these guys - 0888537012. Haven\'t seen an ant for 2yrs since. Unfortunately, they spend most of the time in Switzerland , so call them regularly to catch them when they are here. The chemicals a professional ant fighter would use are actually less harmful then the ones you would buy from the supermarket. They are just used properly and sprayed at the correct spots. Good luck :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2203,3285,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-18 16:49:56','2010-09-18 15:49:56','@studioreforma Hey! Thanks so much. I\'m up for trying anything if it will get rid of the ants.',0,'1','','',2202,0),(2204,3288,'Stefan','stivan81@gmail.com','','212.117.62.161','2010-09-06 11:41:36','2010-09-06 10:41:36','Loved the final :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2205,3288,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-09-06 13:16:48','2010-09-06 12:16:48','Yes, malls are creepy.\nCombined with the fact that the goods they sell are too expensive compared with their quality and the means of the Bulgarian consumer and let\'s not forget the absurd people you have to share the space with - all this makes visiting a mall an experience that\'s not particularly sensible.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2206,3288,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.117','2010-09-06 13:57:54','2010-09-06 12:57:54','Why do we have so many malls? Well, we get one, other people see that it\'s making a profit and now everyone wants to build one and have a piece of the pie. And by the time they realise there\'s not enough pie to go around, it\'ll be too late. It\'s happened before and it will happen again.\nThe naming I find ridiculous, because it\'s not how it works in Bulgarian. It just makes it hareder to differentiate between the malls.\nAlso I often have a hard time telling mall clothing stores apart. It\'s like the same clothes with a different tag. But maybe that\'s just me and I would be shunned by our rather new population of mallrats, should they hear me say it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2207,3288,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-09-06 17:02:12','2010-09-06 16:02:12','Try it in any other country, from Asia to Africa, and you\'ll see the same thing. I guess it just works, as a biz. Interesting perspective you got there though :) And a nice blog, I\'m subscribed :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2208,3288,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-07 18:01:51','2010-09-07 17:01:51','@Ilian right?! It\'s also a good point that many of the goods/products cost more at the mall than elsewhere.',0,'1','','',2205,0),(2209,3288,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-09-07 18:04:14','2010-09-07 17:04:14','Mall rent is higher, people there are willing to spend more :)',0,'1','','',2208,0),(2210,3288,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2010-09-10 09:47:37','2010-09-10 08:47:37','I live very close to one of Sofia\'s malls, the one called Serdika Center. At first when it was under construction I was very happy that I would have decent shops around, but now I  changed mind... too many shops,too many malls, and everything is so incredibly expensive that I don\'t understand how bulgarians with bulgarian salaries can afford to buy anything here but coffees...',0,'1','','',0,0),(2211,3296,'Svetlana','svdoneva@gmail.com','','196.25.0.114','2010-09-07 11:20:59','2010-09-07 10:20:59','I love figs too! Unfortunately they are expensive and hard to come by where I live (Johannesburg). My favourite \"recipe\" is this: score a deep cross at the top of the fig and open it up. Drizzle with honey, place some goats cheese in the centre of the fig, grind some fresh black pepper on top and grill until soft and gooey. Delicious at the end of a dinner party with a cheese board and some nuts. So easy I can\'t even call it a recipe! Enjoy!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2212,3296,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-09-07 11:27:39','2010-09-07 10:27:39','We have a fig tree in the back of the house in my hometown, that one is real nice but real far away :) Bulgarian fruits and veggies are generally awesome, and don\'t miss the grapes season which is now! That\'s something i miss now, in the not so sunny Deutschland :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2213,3296,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-07 17:59:05','2010-09-07 16:59:05','@Hristo Velev Don\'t worry, I love grapes too! I think that this time of year I could live on fresh fruits and veggies. Everything is so good!!',0,'1','','',2212,0),(2214,3296,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-07 18:00:09','2010-09-07 17:00:09','@Svetlana Um, these sound incredible. And super easy. Thanks for this \"not-recipe\" recipe!!',0,'1','','',2211,0),(2215,3276,'Yo','yolina.stoyanova@gmail.com','','178.198.22.254','2010-09-08 08:43:30','2010-09-08 07:43:30','During the socialism toilet paper was a rare good. At home we improvised - got it with \"connections\", i.e. if you have a friend working in a shop or use tissue napkins.\nI never expected to find toilet paper in public buildings, and I was in absolute shock when I went for first time in Greece on conference. OMG! Toilet paper ... in university!!! This became one of my definitions of capitalism :).\nI do not know why people in BG still act as if toilet paper if not available. Lack of WC culture?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2216,3276,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-08 08:56:01','2010-09-08 07:56:01','You have written about toilet paper before. You don\'t like the perfumed one and you carefully sniff around in bila until you find the right one.\nBut do not worry - I am probably the only one that reads carefully blogposts from beginning to end and then remembers things. Most people just scan them - I have noticed it on my own blog too (having in mind the ridiculous comments I sometimes get).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2217,3276,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.28','2010-09-08 11:58:17','2010-09-08 10:58:17','I am not sure if you would believe me, but 20 years ago there wasn\'t ANY toilet paper in the lavatories in Bulgaria. And it was difficult to come by any toilet paper in the shops, so the deficit in public places could be explained.\n\nNowadays, I hardly enter any place where there isn\'t toilet paper. I don\'t know, it\'s like second nature to me, but I know for sure beforehand where I am going to find toilet paper.\n\nYou can always count on the malls, the OMV gas stations, the fancy restaurants and cafes. Some public toilets, however do no supply toilet paper in the boots, but you have to take some pre-cut paper from the person that you pay to.\n\nhttps://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/toilets/',0,'1','','',0,0),(2218,3276,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-08 15:41:59','2010-09-08 14:41:59','@helen hey, don\'t worry. I actually remembered writing about perfumed toilet paper but I actually have been thinking about the post I just wrote for such a long time I was worried that I\'d actually already written it once! Thanks for the careful reading. I am glad that someone out there is reading what I am writing!!',0,'1','','',2216,0),(2219,3276,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-08 15:44:04','2010-09-08 14:44:04','@ Комитата I absolutely believe this. I will add that today after writing this post, I went to the bathroom at school and what was there? Toilet paper!!',0,'1','','',2217,0),(2220,3276,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.180','2010-09-08 17:19:07','2010-09-08 16:19:07','I not only carried around the little Kleenex packets while in BG, but also a little travel size packet of toilet seat covers. Never really needed to use them though. All the bathrooms I visited were clean and quite modern really. Guess it\'s just the uber-clean, germophobic American in me!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2221,3276,'i','ivanmanolov@yahoo.com','','79.100.185.14','2010-09-08 17:26:57','2010-09-08 16:26:57','yep, bulgarian toilets are gross',0,'1','','',0,0),(2222,3276,'Ani','ani.gesheva@gmail.com','','63.117.255.126','2010-09-08 19:43:31','2010-09-08 18:43:31','Ehehehe. Funny. True. But that is the case in most of the world, I can make a bet without having traveled it. I am more interested in how we solve this though while I am very sorry you had to suffer. Good point is we save trees this way! ;) I suspect some kind of ownership structure would help out.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2223,3276,'Ani','ani.gesheva@gmail.com','','63.117.255.126','2010-09-08 20:17:23','2010-09-08 19:17:23','Well ownership + norms because people just steal it.',0,'1','','',2222,0),(2224,3276,'Ani','ani.gesheva@gmail.com','','63.117.255.126','2010-09-08 20:20:10','2010-09-08 19:20:10','It\'s good that you mention the topic hough, hopefully we can come up up some solution. What I hated more growing up in one of the best high schools in Sofia (that will be Pushkin, across from the Parliament) is the lack of soap. This is what bothered me more. And it\'s still soapless (and paperless) at least as of the last time I was home.',0,'1','','',2223,0),(2225,3276,'Deia','deia@mail.bg','','12.16.112.2','2010-09-08 23:52:12','2010-09-08 22:52:12','Toilet paper is probably the greatest invention of civilization :P\nand yes, I clearly remember a post about the perfumed toilet paper...it was a long time ago :D',0,'1','','',0,0),(2226,3276,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2010-09-10 09:33:29','2010-09-10 08:33:29','I absolutely agree with most comments. I live in Sofia and I always avoid public bathrooms, and just in case, there\'s always tissues in my handbag',0,'1','','',0,0),(2227,3276,'mthomp28','mthomp28@gmail.com','','134.114.26.122','2010-09-10 17:14:16','2010-09-10 16:14:16','The toilet paper thing seems to be a bigger issue for women than men as all my female PCV friends always had toilet paper with them at all times.\nI would always chuckle when the old ladies outside the public restrooms at bus stations would sell \"toilet paper\", which was actually dinner napkins. Some would even be checkered or colored!\n\nAh, Bulgaria.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2228,3276,'Bahamamama','bahama@gmail.com','','77.70.118.62','2010-09-16 09:20:38','2010-09-16 08:20:38','It is rumored that the national pastime in Bulgaria is stealing. They don\'t steal the toilet paper because they need it or cannot afford it. They steal it, because that way they don\'t have to pay for it. It\'s just the satisfaction of acquiring an object they didn\'t have to pay for, however insignificant or inexpensive the object may be.\nThey have this saying in Bulgaria: \"Авантата е чиста печалба\". I will let your other commenters try to offer the best translation for \"аванта\", because all the entries I found list it to mean \"scrounging\", which I don\'t believe to be a valid translation. Anyhow, it basically means that anything you acquire for free is pure profit.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2229,3311,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-09 08:43:38','2010-09-09 07:43:38','nothing new actually',0,'1','','',0,0),(2230,3311,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-09-09 09:16:13','2010-09-09 08:16:13','Stereotypes that we are all familiar with and that are not completely true/false. I agree that East/West division is outdated, but why is this need for division and generalizing? Complicated, \"scientific\" concepts are not always meaningful - what eventually matters is some countries do the right thing and some don\'t.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2231,3311,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-09-09 11:26:43','2010-09-09 10:26:43','Well not that much of a division, but a divergence in the way society works is definitely nothing new in Europe. Just read up in wikipedia for the thirty years war, for example. Historically, the lines prettu much fall where catholicism and protestantism dvivide. With the one side being more individualistic, liberal, market oriented, and the other - more protectionist. And Bulgaria is still in the post-soviet space, unfortunately.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2232,3311,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','82.169.173.33','2010-09-11 00:28:59','2010-09-10 23:28:59','The north-sound division is true for many things. If you speak Bulgarian in Germany or The Netherlands, locals have a huge chance of calling your language Spanish. Actually, they only get it\'s a southern language and they know it\'s not Italian, so they are left with the logical conclusion - it\'s Spanish. They don\'t identify it as Slavic, neither as something like Russian - for them it\'s a southern language. I look to them as Spanish - I am shorter, with darker complexion, black hair...\nCulture - lazy people, impolite shop-assistants, mafia, not obeying the rules, tending to look for \"alternative ways\" to achieve something, being loud... This is southern, it\'s not eastern.\nMost of the things we would normally say are eastern are actually southern. However, there are some things that are thanks to communism - like the lack of responsibility at work.\nGreetings from Rotterdam! :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2233,3318,'lilia','lidiapetrova@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-09-10 08:37:37','2010-09-10 07:37:37','Леле пъзльовци.Сега цял ден това ще одумват',0,'1','','',0,0),(2234,3318,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2010-09-10 09:14:51','2010-09-10 08:14:51','HI, I\'m a spanish girl living in Sofia as well, I  also felt the earthquake and I was a bit scared, because its not the first one, there have been a few lately.\nNice to meet another foreigner in Bulgaria!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2235,3318,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','83.228.3.176','2010-09-10 09:47:43','2010-09-10 08:47:43','I was happily tinkering on a MFC in the office when the earthquake happened. I got the bejesus scared out of me, not because of the quake, but because the HR lady screamed very, very, veeery loud. -_-',0,'1','','',0,0),(2236,3318,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-10 11:03:12','2010-09-10 10:03:12','@Stan Well, that sucks. I am sorry she scared the bejesus out of you. But your comment really made my day!',0,'1','','',2235,0),(2237,3318,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-10 11:06:46','2010-09-10 10:06:46','@Marta Hey, cool. Glad to know that there are other foreigners out there reading my blog!',0,'1','','',2234,0),(2238,3318,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-09-10 12:19:23','2010-09-10 11:19:23','Off topic: What happened with \"Under the Yoke\"?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2239,3318,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.21','2010-09-10 20:54:22','2010-09-10 19:54:22','I was walking along Graf Ignatiev and I didn\'t feel anything, but some fallings bricks from a nearby building got my attention. And then everyone started talking about quakes and calling friends and relatives to check up on them. But when I do feel an earthquake, the usual reaction is more along the lines of \"meh, big deal\".',0,'1','','',0,0),(2240,3318,'Bas','bas@basbasbas.com','http://www.basbasbas.com/','81.207.60.15','2010-09-10 21:42:30','2010-09-10 20:42:30','Stan, get her back next time and scream \"WE\'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!\"\n\n;-)',0,'1','','',2235,0),(2241,3318,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-11 00:57:42','2010-09-10 23:57:42','Why not, really?',0,'1','','',2240,0),(2242,3318,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.62','2010-09-11 16:42:09','2010-09-11 15:42:09','I went looking for information on the earthquake and tremors that have been felt in Bulgaria and thought you should have this advice from the US Embassy.\n\nhttp://bulgaria.usembassy.gov/earthquake.html\nDo you have a \"Survival Kit\"?\nAre all heavy objects stored \"lower than you head\"?\n\nI did get a kick out of it.\nBe safe,\nMoM',0,'1','','',0,0),(2243,3317,'Bia','nadia.pyrvanova@gmail.com','http://www.nadyaspasova.blogspot.com','213.31.11.80','2010-09-10 14:03:15','2010-09-10 13:03:15','Great attitude, Karolin :)\nKeep rockin\'!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2244,3317,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-10 14:13:31','2010-09-10 13:13:31','Yeah, I guessed it that you did not write it in Bulgarian when I spotted the phrase \"калдъръмените улици\" on the photo taken.\n\nPoor Carolyn you really have tough lack - they\'ve misspelled your name again and on top of everything claimed that you were already 30.\n\np.s. to come clean I reminded you that you were nearly 30 only in context. Twenty something to me sounds like 21 -23 - at these age young people are still very dependent on their parents to help them with money; whereas \"late twenties\" or \"nearly thirty\" is comletely a different story. So. Context. At this age (nearly thirty) people are not very willing to put up with random roommates either.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2245,3317,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-09-10 20:00:27','2010-09-10 19:00:27','Hey,the photo you gave them is not your actual one,you cut your hair before the summer trips,right:)Anyway,you look great!You shold be proud of yourself not always be so self-critical:)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2246,3317,'Kellie','connorsk@gmail.com','','71.14.6.118','2010-09-10 20:15:34','2010-09-10 19:15:34','FYI... according to my husband (who\'s Bulgarian), you have started you 30th year after turning 29.  I know weird to me too.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2247,3317,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.21','2010-09-10 21:11:43','2010-09-10 20:11:43','True, you have started the 30th year after your 29th birthday, but that doesn\'t mean you can\'t be 20-something. I myself intend to be 18 (or five on occasion) till I hit 70. Then I\'ll be 50 for a while. Age is not the color of your eyes, age is the shirt you\'ve chosen for the evening.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2248,3317,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','82.169.173.33','2010-09-11 00:20:24','2010-09-10 23:20:24','When will magazines stop making grammar mistakes...',0,'1','','',0,0),(2249,3317,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','87.126.24.135','2010-09-11 07:48:44','2010-09-11 06:48:44','true. very true. I intend to be three on some occasions :)',0,'1','','',2247,0),(2250,3317,'E la moda','watch_mario@yahoo.com','http://elamoda.blogspot.com','188.26.132.203','2010-09-18 10:55:40','2010-09-18 09:55:40','love it, looks cool',0,'1','','',0,0),(2251,3332,'Gal','gal@gal.com','','78.40.137.166','2010-09-11 09:39:49','2010-09-11 08:39:49','From my perspective Under the Yoke is not that big thing that everyone expects. If you haven\'t - you should read Chudomir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudomir). His characters are from a later time that is closer to us and when you read it you can imagine those people still living amongst us. His style is something that resembles O. Henry and his stories.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2252,3332,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.188.89','2010-09-11 16:04:47','2010-09-11 15:04:47','Having read only a few pages of Under the Yoke while in Walla Walla in April, I  am no expert on the subject. Nonetheless, I sense that the book has given me what I needed to know from it politically and artistically. It was interesting, but like an overly spiced dish, a small amount was both enough and too much.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2253,3332,'Марин','mguergov@yahoo.com','','212.43.39.100','2010-09-12 17:42:24','2010-09-12 16:42:24','I think that Vazov has much more interesting works (poetry, publicism, travel notes) than this one.\nIf you are interested in the Bulgaria history before 1878, the best book is Zahari Stoyanov\'s  \"Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings\" (Записки по българските въстания).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2254,3332,'Vergil','vergilg@hotmail.com','','99.241.2.231','2010-09-12 22:14:15','2010-09-12 21:14:15','I read \"Under the Yoke\" one summer as a teenager.  I kind of dreaded the fact that I had this long book to read and that I had heard so much about.  I thought how good could it be?  I could not put it down!  I would sit for hours and read, and re-read some passages.  I finished it in about a week and I loved it!  I hope not too much gets lost in translation in the English version.\n\nI haven\'t read the other Vazov works that are recommended above, but I\'ve heard they are great, too.  I may read them myself sooner, rather than later.\n\nHappy reading.\n\n-V',0,'1','','',0,0),(2255,3332,'Търновец','donbass1@yahoo.com','http://turnovec.blogspot.com','93.152.176.57','2010-09-15 09:34:50','2010-09-15 08:34:50','Karolinka, i was one of the guys who decided to read \"Under the Yoke\" together with you in April, remember? :) Well ... i read about 30 pages and i think that\'s enough. The book is boring. Don\'t waist your time with it. If you really wanna know more on the subject that \"Under the Yoke\" is written about follow Marin\'s advice - “Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings” by Zahari Stoyanov is the much, much better choice.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2256,3332,'Cold Snap and Cynthia Morrison Phoel &laquo; Karolinka In &amp; Around Bulgaria','','http://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/cold-snap-and-cynthia-morrison-phoel/','72.233.96.175','2010-10-22 04:33:36','2010-10-22 03:33:36','[...] wrote about this book the first time in June/July but I didn&#8217;t finish reading it until September and I haven&#8217;t been inspired to write about the book until now. It&#8217;s fitting considering [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(2257,3343,'Tyler','tylerwasson@hotmail.com','','62.176.106.225','2010-09-13 11:14:45','2010-09-13 10:14:45','I\'m really obsessed with them and their music section. Their new Desk Concert series is great, full album streams, Mountain Stage and all the live concerts! Amazing.\nI discover a lot of good music from there since I\'m sort of far from the concert life I was used to while living in America.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2258,3343,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-13 12:39:23','2010-09-13 11:39:23','@Tyler I really can\'t agree more!! I was listening to a show recently that was recorded at the 9:30 club in DC--a venue that I used to go to all of the time.  The club hosts big names on a small stage and I found myself <em>insanely jealous</em> of the guys recording the show for NPR.',0,'1','','',2257,0),(2259,3343,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-09-13 16:30:53','2010-09-13 15:30:53','I adore NPR! In High school my friends made fun of me for listening to it. In response, I would change the station to music once I entered the parking lot. But once I was out of there at the end of the day it went right back to NPR!\n\nNowadays, I don\'t care what people think (wish I could have felt that way in High school-could have spared myself a fair amount of grief!). I rarely listen to anything else. My favorites are This American Life, Wait Wait Don\'t Tell Me, All Songs Considered, Thistle and Shamrock (Irish music is THE best!), and Talk of the Nation.\n\nGlad to hear you still listen-even from thousands of miles away!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2260,3347,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-09-15 18:28:05','2010-09-15 17:28:05','Welcome back to the real world of work.  Teachers have it so very hard - 2 months and a some odd days with no work.\nLove,\nMoM',0,'1','','',0,0),(2261,3347,'Rx-Ende','dsg.rendex@gmail.com','http://www.Rx-Ende.com','87.126.32.50','2010-09-16 12:09:34','2010-09-16 11:09:34','If the 15th is a Saturday we usually start on the next Monday. For example like 17th. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2262,3347,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-16 12:29:09','2010-09-16 11:29:09','@Rx-Ende And now I know. I guess that means I wont have to say here for the next three years just to figure out how the calendar works for the first day of school!!',0,'1','','',2261,0),(2263,3347,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.188.89','2010-09-16 14:44:50','2010-09-16 13:44:50','Hmm, some don\'t, but many teachers do work in the summer.  I watch my spouse do hours and hours of class prep and other school-related work week after week in the summer.  He doesn\'t stay up til 1 a.m. doing it in the summer as he does in the school year, usually just 12.  Carolyn\'s situation is a little unusual.  She also probably super crams in prep during the school year to get free time at other times.  And at this point, she doesn\'t have family members yet to look out for.  As a teacher yourself, I\'m surprised that the issue of just this misunderstanding about teaching isn\'t one that constantly comes up. I\'ll admit,  I tend to be protective about this because I see how little people outside of academia realize what kind of intense pressure there can be on teachers year round.',0,'1','','',2260,0),(2264,3347,'sophiak','sophillarosa@gmail.com','','212.233.191.115','2010-09-19 22:07:57','2010-09-19 21:07:57','I enjoy reading your blog so much, thank you for sharing your experiences here. I\'m a current Fulbright ETA in Bulgaria and just started classes as well. Wondering if you have any tips/suggestions on teaching?\n\nLooking forward to hearing your thoughts and wishing you a successful (third!) school year.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2265,3347,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-20 04:53:08','2010-09-20 03:53:08','@sophiak! Welcome to Bulgaria. Hope that your first few days are going well. As for advice, I\'ve got plenty of it. I\'ve just got to distill it down to something useful. Here\'s the biggest thing: get your students into the habit of turning their homework in sooner than later.',0,'1','','',2264,0),(2266,3351,'sts','staas11@hotmail.com','','96.51.95.200','2010-09-17 11:28:11','2010-09-17 10:28:11','if you have a hard time remembering the music,maybe it would help if your instructor could make you a copy of the music used during the class',0,'1','','',0,0),(2267,3351,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','78.142.58.87','2010-09-17 11:53:15','2010-09-17 10:53:15','Well, kudos for not giving up and having fun. I\'m a bulgarian and ever since I was a small kid my family, especially my sister, have tried to teach me all kinds of horo. And failed. Miserably. I even took classes at some point in my childhood to prepare for the wedding of my uncle. I tried and tried, but just couldn\'t coordinate my feet, nor did I really feel the beats. A few years later my ex-girlfriend, which was pretty amazing at bulgiaran dances gave me lessons for a few hours. And although being a very patient person, she just couldn\'t stand my \"dancing\". As she put it it was like trying to talk to a brick wall. -_-\nTake my responce as encourgement, since there are a lot of bulgarian people like me, that could not perform even close to how well you are doing (based on the videos in the other blog posts).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2268,3351,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-10-20 22:52:07','2010-10-20 21:52:07','Check out YouTube, they have lots of Bulgarian dance videos you can learn from.\n\nYou may enjoy this excerpt from my blog as well:\n\nhttp://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/2010/07/flavors-of-bulgarian-rachenitsa.html\n\nincluded in here is one of the teaching videos I found on YouTube.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2269,3356,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.62','2010-09-20 01:00:32','2010-09-20 00:00:32','You made me buy Under the Yoke and I read a lot of it.  Do I get to be part of the discussion of that one?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2270,3356,'bendyourcircuit','glutathione@gmail.com','http://bendyourcircuit.wordpress.com/','87.126.39.236','2010-09-20 10:49:12','2010-09-20 09:49:12','Life in Bulgaria is not as hard as it used to be some 10-12 years ago, but I think most Bulgarians are still quite pessimistic and tend to complain very often. So, imagine what it\'s like to live a life that\'s much like the one described in Hamilton\'s book: depressing, sad, overwhelming.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2271,3356,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','77.78.10.75','2010-09-20 13:32:11','2010-09-20 12:32:11','I don\'t know much about this particular book but I have to tell you that life in Bulgaria (Sofia) the way you see it today is very, very different from the life we used to have until let\'s say 2002.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2272,3356,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.169.106','2010-09-20 16:14:44','2010-09-20 15:14:44','Depressing about the past is silly :)\nYou should be getting depressed about the future!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2273,3356,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-20 19:28:54','2010-09-20 18:28:54','@andreytcho Ha, ha but I think it\'s easier to be depressed about the past. There\'s more to focus on and brood about--the future is fluid. How\'s a girl supposed to be depressed about that?!',0,'1','','',2272,0),(2274,3356,'mthomp28','mthomp28@gmail.com','','134.114.26.122','2010-09-20 19:29:48','2010-09-20 18:29:48','Carolyn,\n\nI ordered this book last week through Amazon.com.uk. I got an email that the author would be shipping me the book on Sept. 22.\nI\'m surprised the book was such a downer since the title suggests that Bulgaria might be different (in a positive way) than the rest of the Balkans (ie Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo) since this region usually gets a bad rap as being a crazy, primeval place.\nThat being said, I think I can identify with Helen\'s (above poster) comment as Bulgaria (especially Sofia) has changed a lot in the past few years. But a lot hasn\'t changed in the countryside. Although I loved my town (Zavet) and the people, it\'s not a happy place at all. Pessimism permeated everything there. That\'s why even though Bulgaria is in the EU, aid organizations such as Peace Corps are still very busy throughout the country.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2275,3356,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','87.118.150.53','2010-09-21 06:25:31','2010-09-21 05:25:31','I don\'t get it. What are the Peace Corps doing here?',0,'1','','',2274,0),(2276,3356,'mthomp28','mthomp28@gmail.com','','134.114.26.122','2010-09-21 17:28:57','2010-09-21 16:28:57','Peace Corps is still doing grassroots economic development, health education, and ESL education in Romania and Bulgaria. As you well know, both of these countries were in shambles (economically) after 1989. The situation worsened in 1997 in Bulgaria when high inflation hit and there was near economic collapse. These difficult conditions have made it difficult on ordinary citizens. Although they have freedoms they never had under the communist party, their quality of life was worse. Aid organizations like Peace Corps are trying to help at the local level to improve English literacy, assist small businesses, write grants, provide health education, promote tourism, help minority groups (Roma), and support groups that help protect the environment. All of these missions are designed to strengthen communities, which in turn hopefully decreases pessimism in the economy, the government, and life in general.\n\nI don\'t subscribe to the myth that Bulgarians are pessimistic by nature. I just think that they have been through many difficult situations. There is hope that life for all Bulgarians will improve (that each person can pursue his or her happiness and live without fear) in the near future.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2277,3361,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-09-20 19:20:01','2010-09-20 18:20:01','At 9 I\'m not even back home from work :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2278,3361,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-20 19:27:23','2010-09-20 18:27:23','@Hristo Velev--I know, I know. I shouldn\'t be complaining. But this said, I was at work by 7:30am today and I didn\'t leave until nearly 6pm.  That\'s a lot of hours. Thankfully, I am not still at work!!',0,'1','','',2277,0),(2279,3361,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-09-21 09:25:34','2010-09-21 08:25:34','Oh, Carolyne, I really envy you about your job. It\'s hard as every work is, but I\'m sure (and I\'m seeing it in the blog)that you enjoy it so much, so this is sweet tiredness, I\'m sure. And about the work hours... mine are 12 hours four days a week, so it\'s not easy, but the hardest part is that I don\'t enjoy my job so much.\nPlease complain, this is the most human thing on earth I think. Everyone have to complain sometimes, just for the sport :D',0,'1','','',0,0),(2767,3778,'RaLLy','rally__@abv.bg','','83.222.164.114','2010-11-13 13:03:50','2010-11-13 11:03:50','Hi, Karolinka !!!\r\n\r\nHere is my recipe...\r\nYou can cut a piece of the pumpkin and bake it, then smash it and mix it with some sugar and milk. It is so simple and delicious, but I don\'t even know what the name of the recipe is. Maybe a \"pumpkin cream\" is good :) Enjoy :))',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(3392,4055,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.195.185.83','2010-12-23 17:41:35','2010-12-23 15:41:35','It always sucks when your plans are messed up.\r\nI am not a big fan of the Xmas frenzy, but afterall the most important thing is to be with your family, laugh eat drink laugh share experiences. It is not the end of the world as you parents are practical people and would love to see you any day, regardless of what date it is. Also keeping practicality in mind - you were home a few months ago :)\r\n\r\nWhile i was flying back from my vacation on the Canary islands where now it is 27C via London, having a layover of more than 20hours strangely enough I thought of you. I went out shopping, drinking in the city and time flew by fast, but I thought - What about Karolinka\'s trip to the US? I hope she doesn\'t fly via Germany or London.\r\n\r\nI guess the holiday spirit is not lost on me, I hope next booking turns out OK and you get to see your family. You can even hug them for me.\r\n\r\nLovingly,\r\nEvil Grinch - Andrey',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3822,4205,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.239.103','2011-01-14 08:29:13','2011-01-14 06:29:13','If you like beans then my vote is for bob chorba (bean soup). I had it when I visited BG and thought it was delicious. My future mother-in-law even sent me home with a bag of Smilyanski beans because I raved about her bob chorba, but I haven\'t gotten around to using them yet. \r\n\r\nI found a couple recipes for it, but this one seemed straightforward:\r\nhttp://www.findbgfood.com/bgmeals-favorites-soups.htm#Bob_chorba\r\n\r\nThe monastery style version looks great too!\r\n\r\nGood luck with your project!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3234,4015,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','209.252.34.204','2010-12-13 16:55:48','2010-12-13 14:55:48','And from halfway across the states Jill, and back.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3235,4015,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-12-13 19:43:18','2010-12-13 17:43:18','About the picture quality...   \r\nI didn\'t have any control over the quality of the screen snap.  I used a web based program called Jing to save a portion of what I was seeing while we talked to you. I do like to show off a little when I learn something new.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(2281,3363,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-09-21 09:19:40','2010-09-21 08:19:40','About the British part - this is the original thing, not the American way. It\'s funny and sounds a little bit of ridiculous, but then just imagine to speak with someone from Australia... :D.\nOh, and thank YOU teachers :). It\'s very funny and heartwarming to remember you.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2282,3363,'sophiak','sophillarosa@gmail.com','','212.233.191.115','2010-09-21 11:11:01','2010-09-21 10:11:01','Thanks, Carolyn! I will take that advice to heart- especially the head nodding! Nobody in the states believes me when I tell them about this. I think that when I go back I will be doing it the Bulgarian way, confusing everyone. Best wishes for the school year and thank you, again, for the thoughtful reply. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2283,3363,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-09-21 12:14:08','2010-09-21 11:14:08','lol @ chalkboard :)\nFor being the oldest American school outside of the U.S and probably the most expensive private school in Bulgaria, you would think dry erase board would have been no problem to purchase....\n\nOther than that, don\'t think of your students as normal Bulgarian teenagers, they are the privileged ones.\nTheir parents make money exploiting the shitty mess that is Bulgaria, and those parents tell them how they don\'t want them to be here, hence the \"them wanting to be anywhere but here\" attitude.\n\nLast night I was showing some high school photos and I saw the photo of my history teacher in the US.\n\nHe was cool !!! John DeBryun - Rawlins, WY\n\nHe would always jump up scared when i pronounced FACT which to him always sounded like FUCKED.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2284,3363,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','130.115.91.192','2010-09-21 12:43:32','2010-09-21 11:43:32','My favourite: \"Then one day you’ll hear Bulgarian-ized English pass through you’re lips. Your heart will stop. You’d never have thought that was possible.\" :D\nI perfectly understand you. Don\'t you develop some sort of terminology that only you and your fellow expats can understand? Something like calling all coins \"stinky\" (from stotinki) or something like that?\nBecause we \"fail-vame\" and \"pass-vame\" exams, we \"retake-vame\" courses and the train has Verspaetung (delay in German). Furthermore, today I have to do two \"reading-a\". Empty bottles are called Pfand (deposit in German - the money you get back after returning the bottle). Isn\'t mixing languages your favourite hobby now that you\'ve been for quite some time in BG? :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2285,3363,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-22 15:49:13','2010-09-22 14:49:13','As a matter of fact the way the English language sounds in the US now is much closer to what it was when the country formed. It is the British English that mutated in to this funny-sounding mess.  Now writing and vocabulary are a whole different story. On this I am terribly biased, since I speak and write  American English, regardless of the fact that of started studying it in Bulgaria...',0,'1','','',2281,0),(2286,3363,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-22 15:58:02','2010-09-22 14:58:02','Mixing languages is insane, isn\'t it? At some point of time I started adding the hyphen when I write plain old Bulgarian words. For example I often have done \"report-ta\", but recently I\'ve been answering \"telefon-a\" and things like that... besides I can barely say three full sentences without adding a word or a phrase in English...',0,'1','','',2284,0),(2287,3363,'Deia','deia@mail.bg','','75.150.72.237','2010-09-25 07:27:30','2010-09-25 06:27:30','You have no right to say that all of the American College of Sofia students are privileged! In fact, some (and there are quite a few of them) struggle to pay for the school because it is by far the BEST school in Bulgaria. The state exams have shown this clearly!\n\nBesides, who in their right mind would want to live in a country full of people like you: always complaining about things they can\'t change and/or can\'t have...It takes guts to actually stand up and change things...but it takes more than one person or the government to make things better. However, apparently Bulgarians have grown to be really lazy, always expecting somebody to come and fix their own problems.\n\nAnyway, I\'m sorry for spamming your post with stupid comments, but I felt personally offended by andreytcho\'s statement. period.',0,'1','','',2283,0),(2288,3363,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-28 18:44:56','2010-09-28 17:44:56','Don\'t kid yourself - it\'s not only Bulgarians that are lazy and waiting for someone to fix it all. You can come to the US and see the same freakin\' think... besides people do not have as much power to change lives and countries as we would like to believe.',0,'1','','',2287,0),(2289,3363,'Zoe Kalamaki','zoe.kalamaki@abv.bg','','88.80.140.70','2010-10-02 18:46:23','2010-10-02 17:46:23','Had the Founding Fathers adopted Greek as the official language of the newly independent America, you would have written condescendingly \"Oh those Greeks\". British English may well be silly enough as long as you do not compare it to American English. Then the fun starts.\nNext time I read Shakespeare, I will know that his language is not only poetic, metaphorical, subtle, rich in meaning and exquisite in structure, but silly as well.\n\nThank you!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2290,3368,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.169.105','2010-09-23 11:52:49','2010-09-23 10:52:49','Каролинке ще се караме !!!\n\nThis is not any fucking holiday, it\'s independence day.\n\nIf 4th of July is on a Wednesday no one is taking the day off?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2291,3368,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-09-28 11:31:02','2010-09-28 10:31:02','andreytcho, if you are in the US on 4th of July you\'ll just have free day and will not work, right :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2293,3376,'rado','spacest@gmail.com','http://spaze.info','217.18.249.148','2010-10-20 15:23:45','2010-10-20 14:23:45','hello,\n\ni just found out about this surprising reference. thanks for the kind words, enjoy and take care!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2294,3376,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-20 15:32:32','2010-10-20 14:32:32','@rado Of course! I really dig your blog and the photos that you\'ve been taking.',0,'1','','',2293,0),(2295,3383,'MadWizard','dobriman@gmail.com','http://dobriman.blogspot.com/','84.40.94.105','2010-09-26 12:25:55','2010-09-26 11:25:55','Poor girl...\nDon\'t you really know what to eat and how to get fun?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2296,3383,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-26 15:46:42','2010-09-26 14:46:42','@ MadWizard apparently I don\'t know. But I do like pizza.',0,'1','','',2295,0),(2596,3678,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-11-03 22:50:18','2010-11-03 22:50:18','The stairs in Devil\'s Throat are scary, aren\'t they? I made my bf carry my purse as we went up, I needed both hands to hold onto the rails!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6.6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(2866,3830,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-11-21 05:48:55','2010-11-21 03:48:55','When I lived in Germany I hosted Thanksgiving for a German friends across the street.  They loved it.  It was a taste of American culture for them. And I enjoyed doing it.\r\nAs for stuffing, it\'s too much work to make from scratch.  I buy a couple of boxes of pre-made stuffing (Stove Top for Turkey is good), and add mushrooms, onions, dried cranberries and white wine.  To me it\'s the best part of Thanksgiving :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(2599,3691,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-11-04 09:00:12','2010-11-04 09:00:12','But you should be able to find it in Sofia too. Yes, it\'s an old-style candy.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(2600,3691,'Andrey','nero2@abv.bg','http://wahregedanken.blogspot.com','77.70.61.85','2010-11-04 09:55:16','2010-11-04 09:55:16','To me it looks like the candy \"Чайка\" (\"Seagull\")',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2299,3395,'hahohihi','be.me@mail.bg','','85.187.99.14','2010-09-27 16:55:06','2010-09-27 15:55:06','Well, Im pretty sure that if I went to an exhibition in the USA they wouldnt have typed the names of the items in all languages...I mean I can say the same thing and it will sound just as ridicolous \"why didnt they put the names in Bulgarian..\"(and I have been, and they didnt put them in French either)\n\nI get this very negative attitude towards BG in general. Or maybe Im wrong...',0,'1','','',0,0),(2300,3395,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-27 17:30:54','2010-09-27 16:30:54','@hahohihi Well you make an interesting point. In America, you\'re right we\'d have names only in English. But across Europe most major museums have their pieces labeled in the language of the country and in English. I\'m I down on Bulgaria because the exhibit was labeled in Bulgarian and French? Gosh no. The problem seems to be one of consistency.  Some of the gallery is in both Bulgarian and English some just in Bulgarian. Fine. This said, for better or worse English is a global language--a language of tourists whether they are German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish or American. So while I loved the exhibit my comment about the language of the exhibit is a warning. If you don\'t know much about Degas\' sculpture (like me) and you don\'t speak Bulgarian or French (like me) then you\'ll have to to read up on Degas and his sculptures before you go if you\'re the kind of person who wants some history/background to better enjoy and makes sense of an exhibit. Hope this makes sense.',0,'1','','',2299,0),(2301,3395,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','87.126.172.101','2010-09-27 18:08:50','2010-09-27 17:08:50','Carolyn, the answer is simple: \"Degas\", hence the French. And as for Bulgarian, I don\'t have to explain, do I?\n\nAs for Bulgaria being inaccessable... Boy, everybody here speaks English, much of the information is written in English... Life is pretty easy for a foreigner speaking English in Bulgaria and when I say this I have in mind other European countries - Greece, Spain, Italy and ... France.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2302,3395,'hahohihi','be.me@mail.bg','','85.187.99.14','2010-09-27 18:16:55','2010-09-27 17:16:55','Well even in Versailles and La Louvre the labels are only in English and you cannot really understand what you are looking at if you dont buy a catalog in English... So comparing BG National Gallery, where you have Bg and French, and the most famous gallery in the world - La Louvre, where you have evrything just in French, I can say that you are pretty welcomed here.',0,'1','','',2300,0),(2304,3400,'lilia','ivaivanova0@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-09-28 06:57:24','2010-09-28 05:57:24','Веднага!  Само да те зърна и вече съм плам.\nКогато се обърнах от теб следа -бе ням\nВъпроси в мен нахлуха-какво, къде, защо и как?\nОбърнах се с уплаха- а ти ме чакаш  сам...\nКак да те оставя-  сърце в две шепи свян.\nОбичам ,луда бягам към теб-  в небе огрян.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2305,3400,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-09-28 11:28:07','2010-09-28 10:28:07','I\'m pretty shure this is some kind of new place, cuz I used to pass by this part of Sofia and I\'ve never seen it :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2306,3400,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-28 12:14:48','2010-09-28 11:14:48','Phew! That makes me feel better--maybe it is new (or new-er)!',0,'1','','',2305,0),(2307,3400,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-28 12:18:38','2010-09-28 11:18:38','@lilia--humm, I\'m not sure that I understand much more than the какво, къде, защо и как?--the what, where, why and how.',0,'1','','',2304,0),(2308,3400,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-28 13:37:42','2010-09-28 12:37:42','That company is famous for their sweets :) We have one small shop here near the Business Park in Mladost 4.\n\nThe place that you describe is a new one. We found it by chance a couple of weeks ago. I liked the china too. And the whole atmosphere inside the cafe.\n\nYou don\'t know it but I also love coffee and sweets. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2309,3400,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-09-28 13:40:49','2010-09-28 12:40:49','@helen? I don\'t even have to leavel the Mladosts to enjoy 100 Grams?! Holy-smokes.',0,'1','','',2308,0),(2310,3400,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-09-28 14:03:14','2010-09-28 13:03:14','Yeah. It\'s a little bit tricky to find but not impossible.\n\n\nI don\'t know how good you know this area - it\'s on Atanas Moskov blvd - Business park on the right; block of appartments on the left and the small sweet shop.\n\nBut check out the site:\n\nhttp://www.100gr-sladki.com/en/',0,'1','','',2309,0),(2311,3415,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-09-28 16:21:13','2010-09-28 15:21:13','Oh... this is Ace of Base cover...\nI\'ll (try to) translate the lyrics for you later, but... um. The song is called Oh, how simple (stupid) you are. And the verse is like\nOh, how simple are you\nis there any meaning\nin speaking with you\n\nOh, how simple are you\nis there any meaning\nOh, no.\n\nSo, I\'m sure is not exactly the Ace of Base thing you will expect.\n\nAnd which Ace Base song is?\n\nAnd last. My phone rings with this :D',0,'1','','',0,0),(2312,3415,'Димитър','dimiter.dimitrov@gmail.com','http://dimiterd.blogspot.com','77.70.63.13','2010-09-28 16:31:10','2010-09-28 15:31:10','\"All that she wants\" - it really requires outsider\'s ear that does not listen to the lyrics but to the music to recognize it.\nBTW this particular Ace Of Base song was (and still is) very popular in Bulgaria.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2313,3415,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-28 16:57:06','2010-09-28 15:57:06','@soregashi I figured that the lyrics were inane. It was pretty clear that the Bulgarian wasn\'t too concerned with the original lyrics.  And, I did listen to the refrain half a dozen times and I watched video twice. It\'s is pretty ridiculous which is apparently fitting.',0,'1','','',2311,0),(2314,3415,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-28 16:59:45','2010-09-28 15:59:45','@Димитър Right?! I think that a piece of me loves Bulgaria all the more because of the sheer number of times I\'ve heard this song in bars in Bulgaria. Why more than I\'d have ever heard them if I were in the States right now.',0,'1','','',2312,0),(2315,3415,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-28 17:15:20','2010-09-28 16:15:20','Oh man this is the most horrible thing I\'ve heard.\n\nAnyway, I wanted to mention 2 things - I had the same feeling about Lady Gaga which btw made me totally dislike her. The feeling you get around the US is that she is super original which for me she\'s not ...\n\nSecond, I am surprised that you have not heard more Ace of Base in Bulgaria - they were quite popular some times ago. I guess the pop folk has overtaken the entire country. But \"All that she wants\" was one of my favorite songs as a kid.\n\nP.S. : I am glad that you had fun with this cover, but in reality it just sickens me that this kind of things come out in Bulgaria - it makes my country look vulgar, undereducated and plain stupid :(',0,'1','','',0,0),(2316,3415,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-09-28 17:29:40','2010-09-28 16:29:40','It\'s interesting to hear someone your age saying that\'s getting pumped up by this song. :) It\'s also incredible that the Ace of Bace\'s original is still popular - for this kind of music it must be the ultimate survivor.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2317,3415,'i','ivanmanolov@yahoo.com','','90.154.172.161','2010-09-29 15:46:50','2010-09-29 14:46:50','i consider you lucky for not understanding the lyrics of the bulgarian version. it\'s one of those WTF songs.\n\ni pictured your trip from tirana to ohrid in my head for a second and wow, it must\'ve been quite the experience for someone who\'s not from around here. exploring different cultures is fun, isnt it :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2318,3415,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-09-29 17:30:15','2010-09-29 16:30:15','@i yeah it was a pretty serious ride. I am not really sure that it\'s something I want to ever repeat again but it was totally worth it. The drive between the two countries is devastatingly beautiful (oh and you get to cross the board by foot).',0,'1','','',2317,0),(2319,3415,'Claes Cornelius','claes@laidback.dk','','94.144.63.13','2010-09-30 09:35:26','2010-09-30 08:35:26','This reminds of a Danish band called Shu-Bi-Dua, always taking well-known songs and, they said in interviews, destroy them turning them into fun, satire, etc.\n\nNice guitar solo! But I can\'t of course understand much of the lyrics even though Romanian is based on Latin.',0,'1','','',2311,0),(2537,3648,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.50','2010-10-30 10:20:24','2010-10-30 10:20:24','Coldest winter in 1000 years? No, he relayed it to you correctly, there was such a thing somewhere in the news. But there are similar \"news\" every year. When some new guy in the news agency finds something oh-so-cool on the web and thinks relaying it would be so awesome. Like when they said NASA had found life on Titan. The publication on NASA\'s site was something completely different, but wouldn\'t be a good headline. Before I digress on pseudo-journalism, back to the 1000 years thing. I call utter bollocks. These 1000 years would include The Little Ice Age (somewhere about 1600-1700) Also the sun is near a solar maximum now. While it\'s true that we\'re heavily influencing the climate and I think we\'ll be seeing more and more erratic weather in the future, it\' can\'t be true this will be the coldest winter in such a long time period. Like this thing about this October being the only one with five Fridays in several centuries. Heh, some people will believe anything. \r\nAnd about the forecast, I don\'t rely on it. I think their Extended Forecast isn\'t as accurate as my Wild Guess Forecast. But it would be a good place to hear some OK Bulgarian. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2321,3418,'lilia','ivaivanova0@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-09-29 07:02:18','2010-09-29 06:02:18','След минути излиза.Само мъничко търпение.Днес е без шеф (ония е на панаира) и се тутка...',0,'1','','',0,0),(2322,3418,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-09-29 17:44:57','2010-09-29 16:44:57','I love the pictures.  Keep looking for good photos, maybe you won\'t notice the longer walk.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2323,3431,'expat world','oaskuuw@epa.com','http://www.expatworldonline.com','121.6.240.41','2010-09-30 15:10:52','2010-09-30 14:10:52','Maybe though it wont be brands but it will be flavors, textures and combinations that I crave.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2324,3431,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.18.67.122','2010-09-30 15:28:14','2010-09-30 14:28:14','Yes, that will happen.  The sad thing is that it is almost impossible to replicate the local foods, breads, fruit and vegetable varieties you have learned to love. Some are imported, but they still are not ever recently produced and often have sat on the shelf forever.  It is good to see that you focus on local offerings.  It\'s one of the things you can return with only in your recollections.  But recollections can be sweet, especially if you have a lot of them.  :-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2325,3431,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-09-30 15:58:53','2010-09-30 14:58:53','\"Sure, many of the objects I came back to Bulgaria with could be found at a store like Hit but I still made room for these American favorites in my suitcase\"\n\nCan you give some examples? There are things in the US that I would miss tremendously if I came back to Bulgaria, Mexican food being only one of them. So I was curious to now if more and more american products (or substitutes) appear in Bulgaria.\n\nP.S. As a Marketer I find your article fascinating - it sort of justifies what I do for living:)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2326,3431,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-10-03 14:49:51','2010-10-03 13:49:51','When I lived in Germany peanut butter could only be found at the military bases, in the commissary. Since the base was a distance from where I lived,  I substituted Nutella for peanut butter.   It was especially good on dark German bread.  I did a lot of my shopping in German supermarkets, especially for cold cuts and bread, they were so much tastier than what I could find on the base.\n\nMy German friends liked American food, especially peanut butter (Skippy) and American potato chips.  They were crunchier and tastier than the German ones.\n\nI had a hell of a time finding Nutella in the States, except in specialty stores (this was 30 years ago).  Now I see it in supermarkets, it\'s become quite commonplace.\n\nI can identify with you missing certain foods.  When I lived in Europe I missed New York City pizza the most.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2328,3434,'Gal','gal@gal.com','','78.40.137.26','2010-10-01 06:36:38','2010-10-01 05:36:38','You can buy a piece of pumpkin, they sell cuts at some stores (I\'m sure they do but can\'t name the supermarket). Ask some Bulgarian friends :).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2329,3434,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-10-01 09:00:45','2010-10-01 08:00:45','There is a reason this only gets traditionally made on Christmas eve. The damn stuff is addictive :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2330,3434,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-01 09:36:24','2010-10-01 08:36:24','Somebody should really teach you how to make banitsa and tikvenik and the other varieties at home. It\'s really not rocket science and usually  it\'s better than the ones sold outside.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2331,3434,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.5','2010-10-01 10:01:31','2010-10-01 09:01:31','You can cut the pumpkin piece by piece and place each piece in the microwave oven. It\'s a kind of solution.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2332,3434,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.178','2010-10-01 13:02:09','2010-10-01 12:02:09','You can buy delicious roasted pieces of тиква from the fruit/vegetable market on Graf Ignatiev. There are some  little shops which sell nuts, fruits or bakeries where you can also find roasted pumpkin.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2333,3434,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlsmeetsbulgraia.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-01 18:00:11','2010-10-01 17:00:11','Sounds delicious! It\'s pumpkin pie season here in the States but I am not a huge fan. This sounds much better!\n\nIt doesn\'t have sirene or some other cheese in it, right? I love the thought of banitsa and the like, but I don\'t like cheese.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2334,3434,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.2','2010-10-02 00:01:02','2010-10-01 23:01:02','Glad you like it. :)\nMe - I can\'t stand the stuff (and pumpkin as a whole). And I\'m probably one of the few who feel that way.\nBut indeed the Graf Ignatiev corner is a great place to get a slice of pumpkin. You won\'t believe the lines that form sometimes. Well, unless you\'ve already seen them...',0,'1','','',0,0),(2335,3434,'Toto','antoaneta.stefanova@hotmail.com','','85.11.176.28','2010-10-06 19:53:37','2010-10-06 18:53:37','mmm, Тиквеник for the win! I might make some next week and actually bring it to school.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2338,3434,'Pumpkin Jam and Pancakes &laquo; Karolinka In &amp; Around Bulgaria','','http://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/pumpkin-jam-and-pancakes/','74.200.243.198','2010-10-21 04:35:20','2010-10-21 03:35:20','[...] so I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect or if I&#8217;d like it. But I do like pumpkin pie and pumpkin banitsa which lead me to believe that pumpkin jam was right up my [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(2339,3439,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.2','2010-10-02 22:34:20','2010-10-02 21:34:20','I remember I used to watch monster trucks about 10 years ago. I liked Bigfoot and Grave Digger. :)\nI wonder how come no one has snipped the Scorpions sign yet to bring home and put it on their wall or something. It would be quite valuable to a fan.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2340,3439,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-04 20:47:41','2010-10-04 19:47:41','Wow, Bigfoot in Bulgaria?!\n\nI saw that truck when I was little at a show here in Utah.\n\nCool!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2342,3444,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-10-03 15:32:55','2010-10-03 14:32:55','The lady I was going to was nice, but it\'s a very small place in kind of a basement. Still, she\'s good and not expensive. It\'s at Musagenica, block 88A (look it up on bgmaps.com, real close to Mladost). It\'s a basement open to the street, on the side of the block that looks to the back of the supermarket.\n\nStill, I\'m just a guy - with long hair, but a guy :) so I\'m not the end-all authority on the matter :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2343,3444,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-10-03 20:58:52','2010-10-03 19:58:52','Well,I am with long hair,and cutting it with 10 cm is not a big deal,but cutting short hair is much more difficult.I\'ve been living in Studentski grad for almost 8 years and still when comes to hair cut,it\'s like a nightmare to me.A lot of salons over here,all of them very modern with youg stylists working in it ,but to be honest- too much ado about nothing.I don\'t have a favourite one and I can hardly recomмend anybody,but I am no expert when taking in mind that I cut my hire 3 times a year:).Sorry for not being able to help.Something will come up,don\'t worry!Hey,when are we going to reunite if I can call it that way,I mean when there\'s going to be second meeting with you and US(your loyal readres).',0,'1','','',0,0),(2344,3444,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.2','2010-10-03 23:04:48','2010-10-03 22:04:48','I can tell you where I go to get my hair cut. Or rather trimmed, because I hate losing length, so only split ends get the scissors. And that\'s why I like going there - the lady never takes more than needed. And I think she knows what she\'s doing. But beyond that I can\'t testify to her skills, so I can\' exactly recommend anyone. But if that\'s what you looking for - it\'s on the corner of Gurko and Karavelov. Going down Gurko it\'s about halfway between the Starbucks and the National Stadium. The lady is called Kikky, but I don\'t know her full name. Also, I think it\'s a bit on the expensive side. That\'s why I go rather rarely. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2345,3444,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2010-10-06 09:41:33','2010-10-06 08:41:33','Hello,\nI also live in Sofia and for 2 years I had problems to get good haircuts. I got plenty of disasters I had to live with for months. And finally I decided to do it myself, and I am absolutely satisfied. I found  website where the explanations are given in very clear videos in which the girl combs or cuts her own hair. In this video:\n\nhttp://contolstyle.com/style/videos/025_corte_cabello.html\n\nyou can learn very easily how to cut your own hair (both long and short). Although it is in Spanish, language is no really needed to understand it. This girl is a professional stylist and her website is entirely dedicated to show, in short videos, how to do your own hair/make up.\n\nIn the main site: http://contolstyle.com/style/videos/indice/videos_peinados.html\nyou can see many hairstyles that one can do to herself rather easily.\n\nMy hair was a mess when I went to bulgarian hairdressers, and now it\'s much better. Last week I cut my own hair following that website\'s instructions and in 5 minutes I got something wonderful. You can try it because there\'s nothing to lose.\n\nBest regards,\n\nMarta',0,'1','','',0,0),(2346,3444,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-06 09:57:30','2010-10-06 08:57:30','@marta--I don\'t know. You must have a steadier hand than I do and much more confidence in your abilities than me!!',0,'1','','',2345,0),(2347,3444,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2010-10-06 10:08:27','2010-10-06 09:08:27','In fact I am really clumsy when it comes to hand work... :) but my self-made haircut was wonderful with very few effort and it was for free. I forgot to add that the author of the video has added subtitles in English.\n\nLet me add, I really like your blog, because most of the foreigners I find here in Sofia don\'t want to adapt to Bulgaria at all and just want to leave, but you have a very positive view which is quite refreshing, thank you!\n\nDovijdane!\nMarta',0,'1','','',0,0),(2348,3446,'Hristo Velev','hristo.velev@gmail.com','http://velevfx.com','141.16.131.3','2010-10-04 09:19:45','2010-10-04 08:19:45','Not bad :) You can definitely go round town with that much Bulgarian, but to really polish it is freakin hard :D You want a correction?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2349,3446,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-04 10:24:05','2010-10-04 09:24:05','@Hristo Velev--go for it! how else am I going to get any better?',0,'1','','',2348,0),(2350,3446,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.2','2010-10-04 11:34:22','2010-10-04 10:34:22','Indeed, it\'s completely understandable. I see no problems with the basic structures, though you could lose a few elements when moving to larger sentences and texts (like the \"аз\" and \"ние\" - none of them are needed here). When used properly, Bulgarian can be quite economical, considering the amount of information being conveyed.\nGrammatically I see only one persisting error - in Bulgarian months and seasons aren\'t capitalized. So besides these things and some typos you are quite ready to move to larger sentence structures and soon tackle stylistics, which may prove to be a pain in the neck for you.\nI can also give you a corrected version and a thorough review if you want one. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2351,3446,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.18.67.122','2010-10-04 14:44:05','2010-10-04 13:44:05','Great picture.  So if you are on your way to a wedding, what are you doing at Shady Lawn?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2352,3446,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.113.7.175','2010-10-05 00:56:14','2010-10-04 23:56:14','To get our picture taken by the family photographer, of course!',0,'1','','',2351,0),(2353,3446,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.178','2010-10-05 16:01:55','2010-10-05 15:01:55','Off topic: Carolyn, on the right side of your blog there is a short summary of Year Two, you have to change it :) I will also love to read a post about the things you want to do in your third year in Bulgaria (something like the list you do last year: http://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/back-in-bulgaria/#comments )',0,'1','','',0,0),(2354,3446,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.18.67.122','2010-10-06 03:31:24','2010-10-06 02:31:24','Duh, what was I thinking.',0,'1','','',2352,0),(2355,3446,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-06 05:15:51','2010-10-06 04:15:51','@Ivet you\'re exactly right. I need to do both of these things!!',0,'1','','',2353,0),(2356,3446,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.52','2010-10-06 13:30:19','2010-10-06 12:30:19','I promised you correction and review, so here you go. It\'s big, but keep in mind none of these are grammatical errors. Everything is about style and the meaning you wish to convey. This is the fine-tooth comb. The finest. I mean if you had written it like that, you would be in the 95-th percentile (at least) if there was a nation-wide test. And I would have been in awe. As it stands now, you\'re not _that_ good, but for a foreigner who\'s studied the language for a rather short time, you are doing extremely well.\n\nПрез лятото ходих в Синиморец. Там беше хубаво. След морето ходих в Будапеща. Приятелката ми Р. също беше там. През юли ходихме в Сърбия, Черна Гора, Албания, Македония, Косово и България. През август си бях вкъщи с майка ми, баща ми, сестра ми, брат ми и приятелката му. Ядох много. Майка ми и баща ми са най-добрите готвачи. В къщата ни е много топло през лятото, но имаме басейн. Плувах всеки ден. След седмица отидох във Вашингтон. Видях много свои приятели!! Останах там за седмица и се прибрах вкъщи. Моя приятелка се омъжваше. След това бях в Уола Уола още 10 дни и в края на август се върнах в София.\n\nSo. I removed all the \"аз\"s and \"ние\"s and decapitalized the months and season. Here are the other corrections and the reasons behind them:\n* Моята преятелка Р. -&gt; приятелката ми Р. - this is shorter and more common. Typo - it\'s прИятелка. This time there\'s no confusion between friend/girlfriend, since you\'ve given the initial. Well done :)\n* \"там\" instead of the second \"Будапеща\" - It\'s best to keep repetition to a minimum.\n* Typos - it\'s МакЕдония and КосоВо (I know where the ж came from :))\n* През август аз бях вкъщи -&gt; През август си бях вкъщи - \"Аз\" isn\'t needed. I added the \"си\" which is not necessary but common, as it conveys that you like your home and you like eing there. Without the \"си\" it would be more formal.\n* Typos - баща ме, брат ме -&gt; баща ми, брат ми.\n* в моята къща -&gt; в къщата ми -&gt; в къщата ни - The first change is for shortness, the second is because \"къщата ми\" implies you are the actual owner while \"къщата ни\" means your it\'s your family\'s (including yours).\n* След една седмица -&gt; След седмица - you don\'t need \"една\". The noun being in the singular is enough.\n* ходих -&gt; отидох - the first means you visited and came back, but since later on you say how long your stay was and part of what you did there (met friends), it is better to use \"отидох\" which means you went, but carries no indication of when or whether you came back.\n* Видях много приятели -&gt; Видях много свои приятели - this is to clarify that these are your friends and not just friends with each other.\n* След още една седмица -&gt; Останах там за седмица - Here \"една\" would be OK, because \"още една\" is a common phrase. However, this expression would be more apropriate in a case where you visited two cities, both trips originating from Walla Walla: След седмица ходих до Вашингтон, върнах се и след още една седмица отидох в Чикаго. So it\'s better to say \"Останах там за седмица и...\" - I stayed there for a week and...\n* Моята приятелка -&gt; Моя приятелка - It\'s \"the friend\" vs \"a friend\". \"Моята\" is too specific and means you are refering either to R. whom you mentioned before, or a girlfriend. If it\'s R, you should just say \"R.\" and if it\'s another friend, it should be \"моя\" - \"a friend\".\n* женеше -&gt; омъжваше - in Bulgarian there are two words for \"marry\". If you are marrying a woman, it\'s \"женя се\". If you are marrying a man, it\'s \"омъжвам се\". I\'m assuming that\'s the case with your friend.\n* Уола Уола - I think that\'s the proper way to spell it in Bulgarian. Wal -&gt; Уол. Like in Walter - Уолтър or Cornwall - Корнуол. Though most Bulgarians don\'t know there are rules about that.\n* още 10 - it\'s better with \"още\" because you were there before, for a week (before Wahsington)\n* дойдох в София -&gt; се върнах в София - since you\'ve been here before and you are spending most of your time here, it\'s better to say \"се върнах\". Or you could say \"си дойдох\", if you feel like home here. (that informal \"си\" I mentioned above)\n\n\n\nI would also like to point out some of the things you got very right. Unlike a lot of Bulgarians.\n+ You used \"ходих в\" and not \"ходих до\". The secound would mean you went there, bought a pound of tomatoes and came back.\n+ Placing \"през лятото\" where you did. If it was in the beginning of the sentence, there would be ambiguity whether it\'s hot during the summer, or you only have a pool in the summer.\n+ You know how to move the \"се\" in \"женя се\" vs \"тя се жени\"\n+ Although \"след една седмица\" wasn\'t very right here, it\'s a good example of how you are making an excellent transition from English to Bulgarian. You know it\'s \"eднa\", not \"един\" седмица, so you\'ve gotten the hang of that. And more importantly, while you still use English structures sometimes, you are able to express ideas in Bulgarian in a correct and understandable way.\nSo frankly, I think you\'re doing a helluva good job learning Bulgarian.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2357,3446,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-07 10:12:55','2010-10-07 09:12:55','@Bobby! Thanks so much. It\'s funny how so much of what we write boils down to a question of style, taste and fluency--no matter what language.',0,'1','','',2356,0),(2358,3451,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-10-05 20:34:41','2010-10-05 19:34:41','It\'s officially still Metrostation 14. http://www.metropolitan.bg/en/map/\nMy very limited experience in Sofia shows that usually the name of the metro station refers to what is to be found if you get off at the next one. :D I don\'t know why, maybe I am wrong, this is my internal feeling.\nSince Mladost 3 is already taken by a future stop (that should not be on your way to the centre so I assumed it was not the one you are writing about) the name of your station should be something like Alexander Malinov? Is this the name of the boulevard where it is situated?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2359,3451,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-06 05:03:39','2010-10-06 04:03:39','@TAfricanski well Metrostation 14 it is!! For now-- good thing because it doesn\'t exactly roll of the tongue either.',0,'1','','',2358,0),(2360,3451,'v','vassil100@gmail.com','','94.26.22.142','2010-10-06 10:38:55','2010-10-06 09:38:55','In fact the station\'s name is known and it will be Mladost 3, since it is between Mladost 1a and 3.\n\nThe other branch, the one TAfrikanski is talking about is neither going to pass near Mladost 3, nor would be in construction until the 2013-2019 EU financing period, and hence its names are not known yet indeed.\n\nAlso, that thing he claimed about the stations-naming is completely unfounded and maybe caused by a combination poor ability to read signs (functional illiteracy?) and bad luck, causing him to take the wrong exit every time and think he mistaking the other one for the next station.\n\nBut he is well-known (and frequently mocked) around the bulgarian web-space for talking illiterate, unfounded and annoying crap about this particular city, so I guess it doesn\'t come as a surprise after all.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2361,3451,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-06 10:43:33','2010-10-06 09:43:33','@v Really?! The stop that\'s currently going in (in Mladost 1A) beside the Billa and right next to Alexander Malinov is going to go by the name Mladost 3? That seems confusing. Incredibly confusing actually. Isn\'t Mladost 3--Business Park?',0,'1','','',2360,0),(2362,3451,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-06 11:21:43','2010-10-06 10:21:43','No - you live at the border of Mladost 1A and Mladost 3. Business Park is in Mladost 4 - near to your school.',0,'1','','',2361,0),(2363,3451,'v','vassil100@gmail.com','','94.26.22.142','2010-10-06 11:42:19','2010-10-06 10:42:19','Btw this is pretty normal - I have been living in this city for the pas 23 years and still can\'t remember the numbers.\nIn some cities in other more progressive post-communist countries they dropped them for much easier too remember and less depersonifying scheme using the directions of the world (imagine Mladost-North, Mladost-West, etc. - it sounds almost natural) :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2364,3451,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-10-06 12:24:14','2010-10-06 11:24:14','Yes, the name is Mladost 3. And \"14\" is the first station of the future branch in Business Park direction.\n\nYou can see a more readable plan here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sofia_Metro-Map.png',0,'1','','',2361,0),(2365,3451,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-06 12:39:15','2010-10-06 11:39:15','@Спас Колев Ah well, the Mladosts are a mystery to me.',0,'1','','',2364,0),(2366,3451,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.52','2010-10-06 13:55:29','2010-10-06 12:55:29','I think v is right. Judging from thе picture here - http://www.metropolitan.bg/bg/trans/ the station that is between Младост 1A and Младост 3 is called Младост 3. 14 is on the branch veering to the south.\nI think they chose 3 instead of 1A to avoid potential confusion in the future between 1 and 1A.\n\nAbout the naming - stations are named after three things - a nearby landmark (like the National Stadium, the University, etc.), the district they lead to or in which they are (Mladost, Lyulin, etc.) or when under or above a major intersecton -  after the street that is perpendicular to the metro\'s route (G.M. Dimitrov, Joliot Curie, the future Tsarigradsko Shose, etc.). Or, in the case of two future stations - after a square. But not after \"what\'s on the next stop\".',0,'1','','',0,0),(2367,3451,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-10-06 17:10:31','2010-10-06 16:10:31','I didn\'t know I was \"well-known\" in the Bulgarian web-space. Makes me proud.\nThis time I was not \"hating\" this particular city so I don\'t understand your attack.\nInterestingly enough, my poor ability to read signs and bad luck are usually not a problem in other cities.',0,'1','','',2360,0),(2368,3459,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.80','2010-10-07 12:16:17','2010-10-07 11:16:17','One more reason not to breed like monkeys, results sometimes are not what you want.\nBut throwing away your kid like trash is always an option, that\'s what democracy brings.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2369,3459,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.115.173.210','2010-10-07 13:48:22','2010-10-07 12:48:22','This is a bit blunt – and probably pointless – but your attitude toward the good things in life is appalling. Why should I care?  Because I hate to see anyone, even someone I only know on a blog, headed toward such self-destructive thinking.',0,'1','','',2368,0),(2370,3459,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.169.106','2010-10-07 16:51:49','2010-10-07 15:51:49','I think that you may have missed the point.\n\nWouldn\'t it be better to have more abortions than facilities full of kids nobody wants or cares about?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2371,3459,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-08 00:34:32','2010-10-07 23:34:32','Wow. Just wow. I don\'t really care to reply directly to @andreytcho\'s statements. From reading (suffering through) his many comments on this blog it is clear that he thrives on being cynical and belittling. I fear responding would only serve to fuel his ego. But I do have to say that I think he is the one \"missing the point.\" PLENTY of people, myself included, want and care about those children.\n\nAnyway. Thank you for the post, Karolinka. After seeing the BBC documentary \"Bulgaria\'s Abandoned Children\" I have long wondered why more Bulgarians aren\'t outraged by this issue. It is beyond disturbing. I am glad to hear that people with some real power are fighting to end the abuse of Bulgaria\'s most helpless citizens.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2372,3459,'Anonimka','anonimka@mailinator.com','','207.38.218.2','2010-10-09 02:15:04','2010-10-09 01:15:04','It is interesting to see how Americans get outraged when confronted with the brutal reality of the outside world. I think andreytcho\'s point is more about personal responsibility for your offspring and your parents. Americans do rely heavily on the government to care of their sick children(Group homes) and parents(Nursing homes), way more than other nations. They care about sick and disabled in theory, but not when it comes to their own families. I see it every day on my job.',0,'1','','',2371,0),(2373,3459,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','77.85.7.192','2010-10-09 12:10:18','2010-10-09 11:10:18','My personal take on this is that it is not only the American newspapers that hunt for bad news. It\'s typical for all mass media. But then again it\'s only pragmatism on their side because history has proved that people are attracted by the sight of pain and suffering from Ancient Roman gladiator fights to nowadays \"reality\" programmes.\nYeah, people obviously want to read that kind of news.\n\nWhy do I care to write this long commment? Because I want to post this awesome little guy here\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPubhxZXC9g\n\nIt just made my day.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2374,3459,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.113.7.175','2010-10-10 17:36:07','2010-10-10 16:36:07','Thanks!  I loved it.  Some folks truly love children, it is clear.',0,'1','','',2373,0),(2375,3459,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com/','174.23.225.193','2010-10-10 19:31:11','2010-10-10 18:31:11','This is a reply, but I felt compelled to leave it.\n\nJust because I am an American does not mean that I am naive. It does not mean that I am \"outraged\" by the brutal realities of the world while I sit around and take no action. And it certainly doesn\'t mean that I rely on my government to bear my responsibilities.\n\nI am engaged to a Bulgarian whose parents are much older than my own. It has always been an unspoken truth between us that he will be their caretaker and I have no problems with being right there beside him. Is it true that Americans have a much different view of elderly care, absolutely. I think it is engrained in us as young children to aim for independence from our parents. Our parents don\'t want, nor do they ask, to be taken care of by their children. They don\'t want to be a burden. We do not live in large extended-family homes such as Bulgarians. We aren’t raised with the expectation of caretaking. We are culturally, historically, economically, and religiously different from Bulgaria, that’s just the way it is. I do, however, believe that we could stand to take a page from Bulgaria\'s book and play a larger role in the care of our parents.\n\nHowever, when it comes to children\'s \"group homes\" I have to say that I have never heard of any institution in America taking an essentially murdered child, burying them out back (like an animal), not performing an autopsy, and not alerting the authorities. Just boiling it down to the \"brutal reality\" of the world is a cop out. Was the Holocaust just a \"brutal reality?\" What about the genocide in Darfur? Sitting around and just accepting bad things as an inherent part of human nature perpetuates evil. Maybe in the case of these children in Bulgaria, it comes down to a lack of resources or the fact that they are just one of many of Bulgaria’s social woes. No matter the reason, they deserve better and Bulgarians should demand it.  I have been to Bulgaria. I have driven past the countless orphanages dotting the countryside (mainly full of castaway disabled or Romani children). I have spoken with my fiancé about adoption. I, as an individual human being, am trying to make a difference. Thankfully, I haven\'t had to care for any members of my own family, yet. But I have no problems doing so when the time comes. I have been \"confronted\" by the outside world firsthand. I have handfed severely disabled children in the slums of India. I have scrubbed the floors and cleaned the toilets of these \"group homes\" you mentioned. For you to generalize Americans as only caring \"in theory\" is unfounded and unfair. No matter what work you may happen to do.\n\nLastly, I want to say that my comment about Andreytcho has little to do with this actual post. He is the same for every comment he leaves. I believe that he aims for shock value. He is an instigator. I do not think that he is trying to participate in any constructive dialogue. It has nothing to do with me being an American confronted by the wisdom of the realist that is Andreytcho. Don\'t give him that much credit.',0,'1','','',2372,0),(2376,3459,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com/','174.23.225.193','2010-10-10 19:32:02','2010-10-10 18:32:02','I meant \"long\" reply. Sorry!',0,'1','','',2372,0),(2377,3459,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.18.66.177','2010-10-12 00:18:28','2010-10-11 23:18:28','It’s been fascinating to watch this thread and see what folks have to say. What Whitney writes about the cultural reasons for how and why we in the U.S. care for disabled children and aging folks seems accurate. I’d like to add that part of the reason for caring for family members outside of the home may be economic.  We in the U.S. can often afford to when others may not be able to.  Caring for seriously disabled children and fragile adults can be enormously difficult and not all people are able to do it.  Sometimes, sadly, the best available care isn’t at home.  It’s a very difficult problem to solve and maybe shouldn’t be thought of as a Bulgarian or American difference, but a difference in resources of many kinds. And Andreytcho, Whitney is probably also right about your attitudes.  We’ve all know that it is fashionable for tech-savvy young guys to be remarkably cynical, but whether you are aware of it or not, those attitudes rarely improve life.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2378,3459,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.178','2010-10-12 09:52:58','2010-10-12 08:52:58','Bulgarian state homes for abandoned children are one of the bad things that we inherited from the communism. During all those 50 years parents of mentally and physically disabled children were encouraged to leave them on the day they’re born. Doctors, relatives, friends, the whole society would tell them “Leave your disabled child and forget about him/her. The state will take care of him. You’ll not be able to raise him, your life will become a living nightmare. There are no special schools to satisfy the needs of these children in Bulgaria, no buses, no suitable sidewalks, ramps, the whole environment is hostile towards them.” So this is what these parents did and still do. The communists taught us that we are one healthy, hard-working society whose only aim is the prosperity of our communist country. They also taught us that we are all the same and equal and should not defer from each other. That’s why they have built those state homes outside the big cities, somewhere far away, in the mountains where there is no population, on places where they could stay hidden from the outside world, because they are different, “ugly”, sick, they are not able to work and we don’t need them. In fact it’s so much easier if we pretend that they don’ even exist.\nNow some things begin to change. There are many parents who raise their disabled children at home. But they are forced to become slaves and servants to their children. Because they don’t receive any help from the government, from the society, from the doctors. In the western world these parents receive special help from the very beginning. There are psychologists who help them cope with the initial shock that their kid is disabled. There are medical specialists and institutions to help them educate and raise their children properly depending on their disability. There are employers who are ready to secure jobs to these people (and of course they receive money from the government for this). In Bulgaria there are not such things – no help, no specialists, no suitable environment, no benefits, no understanding.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2379,3459,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2010-10-12 21:34:40','2010-10-12 20:34:40','Great points.\n\nEven as little as 5o years ago, things were somewhat similar here in the U.S. Parents did not have anything near the support and encouragement they have today when it comes to caring for their special needs children.\n\nI think I sometimes forget that Bulgaria is still struggling with the demons of it\'s not-so-distant Communist past.  With time and understanding I do believe that the care and acceptance of Bulgaria\'s disabled children will greatly improve.',0,'1','','',2378,0),(2380,3459,'andreytcho','andreytcho@yahoo.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.80','2010-10-14 16:53:21','2010-10-14 15:53:21','Whitney\n\nI still think that less kids, normal or with super powers is better for the world!\nThe less you have the better you manage it, don\'t you think?\n\nAbout the old people I will say one thing - when you are born you don\'t clean up your shit, your parents do.\nReturning the favor is the least you should do.\nAny other way of looking at family relationships is bullshit and you know it.\n\nOh and to tie this in a nice pink bow - Who made the choice to have you ? What if you were with super powers and were never able to reach the goal of independence from your parents?\n\nCynically yours,\n\nAndrey',0,'1','','',0,0),(2381,3468,'Doriana','doriana@gbg.bg','','95.43.129.234','2010-10-08 11:27:42','2010-10-08 10:27:42','If you find the time - Boyana Church. Its frescoes from 1259 can be considered early examples of Renaissance painting yet before Giotto in Italy!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2382,3468,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-08 11:31:35','2010-10-08 10:31:35','@Doriana Yes, yes!! This church is beautiful.  I just forgot it. I guess the other place to add is the <strong>National History Museum</strong>--the building used to be the house (well, residence) of former Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov.',0,'1','','',2381,0),(2383,3468,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','77.70.16.236','2010-10-08 13:57:47','2010-10-08 12:57:47','Boyana church and the National History Museum are the two things that should be added, they are relatively close to each other. You can have a dinner at the \"Manastirska Magernica\" restaurant, it is a nice place to visit if you are foreigner.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2384,3468,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-08 15:09:14','2010-10-08 14:09:14','Awesome list, thanks! I have explored Southern BG, but wasn\'t able to see anything but the airport in Sofia. I\'m definitely going to check out the sites on your list.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2385,3468,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.148','2010-10-08 19:05:40','2010-10-08 18:05:40','Oh, yes, we do love our gold treasures. We have some of the oldest gold in the world - from the fifth millenium BC. It\'s in the National History Museum, I believe. And there\'s another one in Varna.\nAbout what to add to the list: The National museum of military history - It has large exhibits covering the entire history of the Bulgarian army. They usually have special exhibits on May 6th. http://www.militarymuseum.bg/\nThere are some ruins near the mosque and the baths, right next to the mineral water springs. There are some at the lower level of the Halli, directly across from  the mosque. And hile you are there, you can sneak a peek through the fence to see some more roman ruins where the road used to be.\nThere\'s also the Roman Wall (at Roman Wall market, across the street from the Architecture University) whichi is actually Turkish.\nAlso near the Ivan Vazov theater and the City Park is Ivan Vazov\'s home. It\'s small but nice to see on the inside. That building - http://www.slovo.bg/vazovmuseum/P4020923.jpg\nOh, the St George church behind Sheraton Hotel - it\'s the oldest building in Sofia. Followed by St. Sofia church near the Alexander Nevski Cathedral.\nAnd finally, if you are showing them NDK, be sure to show them the inside, because that\'s where the brilliance of the architect (whom my father knew:P) shines.\n\nPS: Funny typo - \"the crypt with ions\". I imagined how we were building ion thrusters in the crypt of the Cathedral. That would\'ve been awesome on so many levels. Thank you for the lovely image. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2386,3468,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-08 20:50:24','2010-10-08 19:50:24','@Bobby What a great list. I\'ve actually never been to the military museum. I should check it out. Oh and if and when I ever finish the Vasov book maybe I\'ll visit his house...',0,'1','','',2385,0),(2387,3468,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.148','2010-10-08 22:54:24','2010-10-08 21:54:24','You should, but keep in mind that it\'s big and it\'ll take more than a couple of hours.\nI remembered another museum you could visit sometime - The National Polytechinc Museum. It\'s on Opalchenska str. 66, near the Opalchenska metro station. It\'s rather small, but the exhibits are still fun and quite interesting - a lot of old clocks, some computers, food for astronauts... all Bulgarian, of course.\nAnd I just have to correct myself - in the previous post I meant that we have THE oldest gold jewelry that\'s ever been dug up. :)',0,'1','','',2386,0),(2388,3468,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','85.130.77.216','2010-10-09 12:38:42','2010-10-09 11:38:42','There is an exposition of Joseph Oberbauer in Sofia City Art Gallery right now. He\'s an Austrian who made a lot of drawings of Sofia in 1870-1880s, just before it started to become a real city.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2390,3475,'lilia','ivaivanova0@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-10-09 08:15:59','2010-10-09 07:15:59','Иииииииииддддддддддааааааааааа!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2391,3475,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-10-09 14:46:31','2010-10-09 13:46:31','You are not a travel writer by any definition.Sure you write about traveling around, but it\'s not in the way written by a professional (someone who would make you want to visit the place) - no offense.\n\nOne of the way to entice readers is to share embarrassing, scary, miserable or crazy happy things that have happened, you don\'t share all that much.\nI think that you are afraid of sharing too much personal information, and not just about your travels.\n\nI have written about my personal life in very revealing details, not many people are that brave to share.\nYou shouldn\'t strive to do it proper just because that will put you in the \"travel writer\" check box.\n\nDo what you are doing, there always is audience with time to read about other people\'s lives, while they dream of a better life for themselves.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2392,3479,'lilia','ivaivanova0@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-10-11 17:17:49','2010-10-11 16:17:49','Благодаря, малко трудно се появяват цветове ,когато светлото изчезва.Обикновено всичко   става  в един .Надявам се да си оправя очите.',0,'trash','','',0,0),(2393,3479,'alfredpacino','alfredpacino@abv.bg','http://alfredpacino.wordpress.com','212.233.246.143','2010-10-12 14:56:42','2010-10-12 13:56:42','Добри попадения .\nОсобено ГАЗ - 52.',0,'trash','','',0,0),(2511,3648,'Deb','dlsolum@aol.com','','216.186.60.201','2010-10-28 23:19:10','2010-10-28 23:19:10','Life is too short to read books that put you to sleep! Unless you have insomnia and are using it to catch some zzzzz\'s. Find some Bulgarian literature that stimulates your thinking and keeps you awake wondering!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.3)','',0,0),(2395,3491,'soregashi','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','194.145.163.137','2010-10-13 13:48:07','2010-10-13 12:48:07','Хубав списък. Наистина те подкрепям по шестата точка от него. Започвам да пиша коментарите си и на двата езика, за да можеш да ги четеш и на български. Мисля че това ще ти помогне по някакъв начин за 2-ра и 3-та точка.\n\nNice list. I really support you on the sixth point of it.\nI\'ll start to write my comments in both languages, so you can try to read them in Bulgarian. I think this will help you in some way with point 2 and 3.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2396,3491,'Deia','deia@mail.bg','','64.30.2.130','2010-10-13 16:50:53','2010-10-13 15:50:53','Somehow I find it hilarious when I try to imagine you making rakiya :D good luck with the list!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2397,3491,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2010-10-13 16:51:44','2010-10-13 15:51:44','I can share my baba with you if you want! I am pretty sure she knows how to make rakiya as well. It\'s a win-win!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2398,3491,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-14 11:16:00','2010-10-14 10:16:00','@Whitney Sounds great!! :)',0,'1','','',2397,0),(2399,3491,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-14 11:16:50','2010-10-14 10:16:50','@soregashi Thanks so much!',0,'1','','',2395,0),(2400,3496,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-10-13 18:54:15','2010-10-13 17:54:15','Giggling girls early in the morning on my way to work are my personal nightmare :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2401,3496,'lilia','ivaivanova0@abv.bg','','84.21.221.222','2010-10-13 19:16:14','2010-10-13 18:16:14','will try to vladeya.Strahuvam for nas.Mnogo love .... And I can laugh carelessly, but it is where my love lightly dushata.Ot disham.Umiram only by love for you ... I could make you understand and believe',0,'trash','','',0,0),(2402,3496,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-14 09:57:35','2010-10-14 08:57:35','You were lucky :)\n\nLast evening on the metro there were three ...hmmm ... mature ... people singing. They were one man and two women and they talked a lot and loudly and at one moment the man took out some kind of a paper from his bag and they all sang a couple of lines while at the same time passionately discussing how it is supposed to be ... hmmm... performed.\n\nReally I am kind of used to loud teenagers screaming and ocasionally giggling on the metro, but that was too much for me.\n\nbtw, \"lilia\" seems to be spam',0,'1','','',0,0),(2403,3496,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-14 11:15:15','2010-10-14 10:15:15','@Helen It sounds like you had a memorable ride last night. Giggling girls seem pretty great in comparison. Thanks re “lilia” one early comment seemed legit but they\'ve become nonsensical (or less and less sensical--only sensical doesn\'t seem to be a word) .',0,'1','','',2402,0),(2405,3498,'Павел','klinkov.pavel@gmail.com','','134.109.104.32','2010-10-14 09:46:01','2010-10-14 08:46:01','Haha creds :-) I used to squish the cup to keep me from spilling. That works only when I already drunk the half of it :-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2406,3498,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.148','2010-10-14 10:28:11','2010-10-14 09:28:11','I don\'t drink coffee, but I\'ve drank a lot of tee from such cups. Cold drinks too. But with hot tea I\'ve found it\'s easiest to hold them between your thumb and index or middle finger opposite one another right under the much harder rim. Not squeezing, but letting the rim rest on your fingers, bearing the weight of the cup. When you drink, don\'t do it with your thumb toward your mouth. Rather use the middle of the free side of the rim. When the rim is in your mouth, raise your hand a little, effectively tipping the cup.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2407,3498,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-10-14 10:48:46','2010-10-14 09:48:46','Hm, how about - do NOT drink hot drinks from this type of plastic cups? There is a reason why they deform - the type of plastic used. They are not designed for hot drinks. They deform and release chemicals into your coffee. If it\'s only sometimes, ok. You will not live long enough in order to be harmed. But it\'s not a good idea to have this coffee every day.\nThere are plastic cups for hot drinks and they are harder and whiter. At least they are designed with the idea that the contents will be hot so you can hope that the type of plastic used was ok.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2408,3498,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-14 11:09:17','2010-10-14 10:09:17','@TAfricanski this is certainly true but I like living dangerously. Or I am too addicted to coffee to care.',0,'1','','',2407,0),(2409,3498,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-14 11:10:06','2010-10-14 10:10:06','@Bobby I think that what you\'ve described is exactly right. Maybe I\'ll have to go buy a coffee to test it!!',0,'1','','',2406,0),(2410,3498,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.178','2010-10-14 11:50:00','2010-10-14 10:50:00','If you can choose you better buy coffee in a cardboard cups. These are more easy to carry, don\'t get too hot and are nature friendly :) If you buy your coffee from your school cafeteria you can aslo bring your own china cup from home and use it for your everyday coffee.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2411,3498,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.45','2010-10-14 13:09:37','2010-10-14 12:09:37','I hate these cups, but they are kind of \"traditional\" for Bulgaria. They are not very good for soft drinks, too,',0,'1','','',0,0),(2412,3498,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-10-14 17:08:42','2010-10-14 16:08:42','I wonder do Americans really love/want/need \"extra hot no foam grande sugar free vanilla latte\'\'. Doesn\'t it somehow spoil the idea behind the good old coffee drinking.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2413,3498,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-10-14 17:38:27','2010-10-14 16:38:27','I\'m a little to late to be the first to tell you that these cups are a BAD idea. Plastics are made from a variety of volatile (will evaporate fast when heated) compounds that can end up dissolved in your coffee.\n\nI suggest taking a hot drink cup with you and pouring IMMEDIATELY into a cup that will not contribute to your risk of cancer development.  (I am already to old to end up taking care of whatever children you might leave behind as orphans!)',0,'1','','',2407,0),(2414,3498,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','66.151.13.188','2010-10-14 18:07:28','2010-10-14 17:07:28','My thought exactly ;) I\'ve always hated when somebody says \"I need my coffee\" and actually means  \"I need my  extra hot no foam grande sugar free vanilla latte”... but that is the case with most Americans.\n\nIt is far to rare to see a person drinking black coffee unless it is some kind of a free deal (like free coffee provided at my work)... even then I see people pouring tons of liquid or powdered cream into their cup (usually 50:50 ratio:) )\n\nOn another note - here espresso (or expresso as I\'ve seen it written way too many) is a really bad idea. First time I went to Starbucks I decided to stick to my Bulgarian ideas about coffee and ordered double espresso... I received, no joke, 20 ml of liquid packed with 2 scoops of coffee ...  then it kind of makes sense to try and \"water\" it down with lots of milk sugar syrup or whatever you can find:)',0,'1','','',2412,0),(2415,3498,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-14 18:27:25','2010-10-14 17:27:25','@Den and @ilian I think Americans on a whole like these \"Starbucks\" drinks because they are sweet and they don\'t want to actually taste the coffee. I however love the taste of coffee. Maybe I\'ll add a little milk or a little sugar but mostly I like it black.',0,'1','','',2414,0),(2416,3498,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-10-20 21:12:33','2010-10-20 20:12:33','I like a plain, honest cup of coffee.  I avoid Starbucks like the plague, and make my own. It tastes better.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2417,3512,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-10-15 08:31:56','2010-10-15 07:31:56','It didn\'t fall for sure - I saw the crane next to it one of the last mornings.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2418,3512,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-15 08:38:36','2010-10-15 07:38:36','@Спас Колев Good to know. I didn\'t really like imagining that it might have fallen down. Maybe something bigger and better is going up in its place?!',0,'1','','',2417,0),(2419,3512,'Lindsay','lindsay.bouton@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-10-15 10:02:37','2010-10-15 09:02:37','We saw them taking it down a couple nights ago! It was totally weird to see the giant Billa bag hanging from a crane.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2420,3512,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.178','2010-10-15 15:19:20','2010-10-15 14:19:20','As far as I know the Municipality of Sofia forced Billa to take off the big signs/bags from all their stores and replaced them with smaller ones.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2548,3642,'Zikata','militza_nic_zic@yahoo.com','http://www.zikata.wordpress.com','168.122.189.67','2010-10-31 00:38:33','2010-10-31 00:38:33','This movie is AWESOME!! Thank you! I\'m definitely uploading it to my blog and showing it to friends!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(2423,3517,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-15 13:25:36','2010-10-15 12:25:36','\"pray it won\'t rain\"\n\nat least it is a lot warmer than it was last week',0,'1','','',0,0),(2424,3517,'ikel','ikelarion@gmail.com','','85.130.7.144','2010-10-15 16:10:33','2010-10-15 15:10:33','Aaah, them good old \"плоква\" tiles.\nWell it\'s not an official name, but it makes sence, since плочка(/плоча) is a tile and локва is a puddle. Beware their treachery, for when their powers combine, noone is safe.\n\n\nIt\'s not so much \"pray it won\'t rain\" as \"Man, I really hope it won\'t rain\". The inevitability of the incoming rain is subtly implied  in the phrase, yet stoically accepted as a part of life. For such is the bulgarian way of dealing with nature\'s unwanted gifts. And плокваs.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2425,3517,'NinjaDude','ninjadude@gmail.com','http://six.fiftagon.com','77.70.118.62','2010-10-16 03:12:14','2010-10-16 02:12:14','It rained a lot the other night, and it turned out my car was letting in water from some place. I set a trap where I suspect the water is coming in from, and since then I\'ve been hoping for a substantial downpour, so that I could have a chance to confirm or disprove my hypothesis. Alas, it only sprinkles, ever so slightly.\nДано да вали :P',0,'1','','',0,0),(2426,3517,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-16 07:30:09','2010-10-16 06:30:09','@NinjaDude: What?! \"Дано да вали\"?! I hope not!',0,'1','','',2425,0),(2427,3517,'dawsr','cimbrio@hotmail.com','','87.222.146.254','2010-10-16 12:41:36','2010-10-16 11:41:36','Erm, is a first period class (see point number 9) what I think it is?\n\nSo glad you\'re coming over to Madrid!!!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2431,3524,'soregashi Ilia Temelkov','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2010-10-16 21:47:16','2010-10-16 20:47:16','Браво. Нямам търпение да го видя :).\nGood. I\'m eager to see it. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2432,3524,'whitneybg','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.170.109','2010-10-18 06:36:52','2010-10-18 05:36:52','Good luck with the new site! I am excited to see the changes.\n\nWeird question... How many followers/subscribers do you have (if you don\'t mind my asking)? Just wondering at what point it becomes beneficial/worth it to self-host.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2433,3524,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-18 07:18:57','2010-10-18 06:18:57','@Witneybg--Hey, thanks! There aren\'t huge changes coming to the blog, I am just making it look a little nicer and I am going to add a few things. As for followers, I\'ve been averaging between 350 and 550 hits a day for the last few months. What prompted the change was not the number of followers as much as the fact that I really wanted to be able to run google analytics on my blog which wordpress.com wont currently let me do. So what started as wanting more information about my readers became a <em>project</em>.  But I think it will ultimately be worth it.',0,'1','','',2432,0),(2909,3833,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-22 18:17:23','2010-11-22 16:17:23','@ГЙ Oh Saturday Night Live! Leave it to them to think this up.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2903,1),(2435,3528,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.148','2010-10-17 09:48:33','2010-10-17 08:48:33','Toast or yogurt? Isn\'t it kind of obvious? Both, of course. Especially since this is a kind of a study of wether you like it or not. Also, what\'s stopping you from putting yogurt on the toast and then some jam? If it\'s not too thick you can dip a cracker in it. Ideally you would make some pancakes and put it on them. Or dip a rolled-up pancake in it.\nI don\'t like pumpkin, but I\'m curious what the walnut is doing for it. Do share your findings afterwards :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2436,3528,'jimmy oxford','jimmyoxford@hotmail.co.uk','','62.69.36.127','2010-10-18 16:36:03','2010-10-18 15:36:03','Hi how much does a jar of Koprivshtitsa jam cost?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2437,3528,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-18 16:59:00','2010-10-18 15:59:00','@jimmy oxford: um, about 5 leva or 2.50 Euro.',0,'1','','',2436,0),(2438,3528,'Preslava','preslava.laskova@gmail.com','','95.87.197.184','2010-10-19 22:31:06','2010-10-19 21:31:06','Did you like it?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2439,3528,'Pumpkin Jam and Pancakes &laquo; Karolinka In &amp; Around Bulgaria','','http://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/pumpkin-jam-and-pancakes/','74.200.243.198','2010-10-21 04:35:15','2010-10-21 03:35:15','[...] this week, I posted about buying pumpkin jam in Koprivshtitsa. I&#8217;d never seen or heard of such a thing. The jar is a beautiful orange [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(2440,3533,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-18 08:51:37','2010-10-18 07:51:37','All of them are very depressing. What\'s it with you?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2441,3533,'hahohihi','be.me@mail.bg','','85.187.99.14','2010-10-18 16:59:18','2010-10-18 15:59:18','Agree with @helen, and why do you always make photos of one of the ugliest suburban of Sofia? Havent you gone to the center, for instance?',0,'1','','',0,0),(2442,3533,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-18 17:04:25','2010-10-18 16:04:25','@hahohihi Well, first, I do live in Mladost. Second, I actually think that there\'s something lovely and very interesting about Mladost. Classically beautiful? Heck no. But worth taking pictures of? I think so.',0,'1','','',2441,0),(2443,3533,'Kate','k.radovanova@gmail.com','http://www.kick-ass-monster.blogspot.com/','93.218.146.11','2010-10-18 18:05:46','2010-10-18 17:05:46','Hi there :)\n\nI have been reading your blog for a while now, just anonymously, without leaving any comments.\n\nIt started with curiousity. I was thinking what can an American, who is living is Sofia, has to say about the city, the country, the people... And so I was very curious to see how you feel there and what your thoughts are and so on... Now i keep on reading it, because somehow I got used to it. I really like your way of writing and expressing your thoughts and overall your blog is quite interesting ^__^\n\nYeah...well that is all from me...I jsut wanted to share my thoughts :) Keep up the cool posts and have a nice time in Bulgaria.\n\noh btw. I used to live there (Mladost 1) from 2007-2009, interesting years ....not great, but not bad too...there is some sort of beauty I must admit :)  ...i feel a bit nostalgic seeing the photos, though I am happy I am out of there (just to make it clear - not \'cause of the neighbourhood, just bad appartment, creepy upstairs neighbours etc.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2444,3533,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-21 04:51:01','2010-10-21 03:51:01','@Kate Hey, thanks so much for your kind comment. I think that there are a lot of people in your boat. I mean it\'s not like I can really tell you something you don\'t already know it\'s just the perspective is different. Oh and I really love writing which helps get me get thinking and writing everyday!!',0,'1','','',2443,0),(2445,3549,'Den','sayaddina@gmail.com','','99.103.25.250','2010-10-21 04:59:26','2010-10-21 03:59:26','The Alton Brown reference cracked me up:) I love that guy! Cheers and good eats:)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2446,3549,'Doriana','doriana@gbg.bg','','95.43.129.234','2010-10-21 09:16:33','2010-10-21 08:16:33','In fact, there is a special word for pumpkin jam in Bulgarian - рачел - which probably suggests that even Bulgarians consider it as something quite different from all other jams.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2447,3549,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','213.130.70.154','2010-10-21 09:26:17','2010-10-21 08:26:17','@Doriana: ah, I had no idea there was a different name. It makes sense!!',0,'1','','',2446,0),(2448,3557,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-10-21 23:09:49','2010-10-21 22:09:49','“My mom’s tikvenik is dope.”  This worries me.  I hope you were not the one who said this.  (smiling!)',0,'1','','',0,0),(2449,3557,'bendyourcircuit','glutathione@gmail.com','http://bendyourcircuit.wordpress.com/','93.221.167.47','2010-10-22 03:43:36','2010-10-22 02:43:36','Ha. Same here, every time I come back home.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2450,3557,'karolinka27','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','http://','84.40.125.59','2010-10-22 04:34:02','2010-10-22 03:34:02','@MoM Nope. I wouldn\'t even attempt to say everyone would know right away that I was lying. I did respond with: well, my mom makes a kick-ass pumpkin pie. When bragging about moms, food and culture this is the only appropriate response.',0,'1','','',2448,0),(2451,3294,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-22 16:06:40','2010-10-22 15:06:40','I actually have this book on order right now from Amazon! Your review makes me even more excited to read it. I have only visited Bulgaria once--for the entire month of January in 2009. I was freezing cold the entire time! Southern BG is beyond beautiful in the winter, but it\'s also beyond cold!\n\nAs an American I am used to just being able to walk to the wall and turn a little dial/press a button to turn up the heat. In Bulgaria you actually have to work for the heat! I learned how to chop up the wood and put it into the fireplace which would then heat up the water in the radiator pipes. If nothing else, I was semi-warm and got some exercise out of it! It really makes one appreciate the often overlooked conveniences we have in America.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2452,3294,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','90.154.133.74','2010-10-22 18:12:48','2010-10-22 17:12:48','Oh, dear! There is central heating in the cities - ask Carolyn. And I am sure that even in the States there are places with actual fireplaces and chopped wood.\nIf you think that Southern Bulgaria is cold in the winter, you should not by any means visit Northern one - especially my hometown which is on the Danube river - Ruse. Actually, I would recommend for you not to go there in the summer either because then it is very, very hot.\n\nCarolyn, you must\'ve been very unlucky during your first winter in Bulgaria. I don\'t know how you managed to find a place without central heating in Sofia. This is really very rare. And the gas crisis - it was an exception, not a rule. At least it was not a rule until the winter of 2008.\n\nI\'m a little bit reserved about this book - it describes things as they were immediately after the changes and actually things have changed. Definitely.',0,'1','','',2451,0),(2453,3567,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-10-24 11:34:52','2010-10-24 10:34:52','Good job!!!\nIt\'s sad how people from Sofia look at Vitosha as \"the nature\", yet they being the ones hiking up there are polluting that nature without thinking about it.\n\nI live on the other side of the mountain and every time i see tourists i can\'t help it but hate them. I know not everybody is a miserable hiker, but most are and should keep to the other side where people like you would clean up a few times a year.',0,'1','','',0,0),(2454,3567,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-10-24 14:49:20','2010-10-24 13:49:20','I\'d recommend you more walks in Vitosha and less Law and Order watching. Anyway, good job indeed!',0,'1','','',0,0),(2730,3766,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-10 19:14:48','2010-11-10 17:14:48','@Ruth yes this is something I can do. Luckily I regularly go places with my colleagues who own cars.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2728,1),(3481,4068,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.255.140','2010-12-28 00:50:05','2010-12-27 22:50:05','Glad things worked out in the end. There is nothing worse then messed up travel plans. \r\n\r\nHope your holidays are everything you hoped for and more.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2728,3766,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.175.159','2010-11-10 16:28:12','2010-11-10 14:28:12','Can you rent a car for weekend trips in Bulgaria?  Beth could do that in Russia – actually someone other than Beth did it – but she went along.  She also still does not own a car and uses public transport, except that ever year or so she does rent a car.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(2459,3602,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-25 11:57:28','2010-10-25 11:57:28','I like it.\r\nWell done!  (if I may say so since you are the teacher)\r\n:)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(2460,3602,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.113.7.70','2010-10-25 14:28:25','2010-10-25 14:28:25','Well done!\r\nI like it (if I may say so since you are daughter!)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2461,3602,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','78.142.58.87','2010-10-25 15:52:25','2010-10-25 15:52:25','Well done!\r\nI like it (if I may say so since you are one of my fav bloggers!)\r\n\r\nGreat work on the Каролинка tab, your bulgarian is pretty good, thought it does have a few little typos here and there :P\r\n\r\nOne thing that\'s really getting in my eye is the reduced quality of the (stretched?) title photo.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.11 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(2720,3655,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-10 06:55:33','2010-11-10 04:55:33','@Petar I did visit Batak. You can check out my <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/page5/\" rel=\"nofollow\">photos on Flickr</a> (right now they start at page 5 or so--but all of the photos have titles which include Batak). Don\'t worry I am planning a post on Batak soon.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2719,1),(2722,3766,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','78.40.137.251','2010-11-10 08:44:06','2010-11-10 06:44:06','You shouldn\'t consider Lada even in your dreams :). If you try to spot Lada on the streets those days you will hardly notice any and if by some luck you do it will be an old and scary thing. Lada\'s time has gone for good.\r\nBut you should find the time to renew your driving skills. It will be much easier to make a short trips outside Sofia with a car and the traffic outside Sofia is lighter and you will be ok.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2724,3766,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-11-10 11:36:10','2010-11-10 09:36:10','It\'s impossible that your friends drive legally with an international driving license and are registered as residents of Bulgaria because this document is not valid in the country of residence. Do check your info, this could be tricky.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63','',0,0),(2725,3766,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-11-10 11:40:15','2010-11-10 09:40:15','And I never understood why the USA didn\'t join the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals but decided to stay with language-specific signs.\r\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Signs_and_Signals',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63','',2724,0),(2727,3766,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-11-10 15:43:49','2010-11-10 13:43:49','@TAfrianski Well, I don\'t know what the answer to this is. I can only assume there\'s some interesting loophole that allows them to. More than half of the teachers at school own cars with the blue license plates of foreigners and it\'s hard to imagine that they are all driving illegally. There are all sorts of great stories about being pulled over by the police and money that changes hands but no one to my knowledge has ever been fined for not having a valid license.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2724,1),(2463,3602,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-25 19:17:36','2010-10-25 19:17:36','I really like it! The soft yellow color is easy on the eyes. I am used to your Mistylook theme so I am a little sad to see it go! \r\n\r\nNow you have me wanting to self-host my blog! It would be nice to be able to branch out and not have to use one of Wordpress.com\'s themes. \r\n\r\nI am also interested to know what you find out using Google analytics. Might be really interesting!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101001 Firefox/3.5.14','',0,0),(2464,3294,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-10-25 19:24:54','2010-10-25 19:24:54','Oh, there are fireplaces and chopped wood and the whole bit here in America too. We have a word-burning fireplace in my house. It\'s just that we use it for ambiance and not for actual heating of the house. \r\n\r\nMy fiance\'s apartment building was built in the early 1980s, and he isn\'t there enough to warrant installing a heating system. But I think I will demand it when I move there! :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101001 Firefox/3.5.14','',2452,0),(2719,3655,'Petar','pmalenkin@abv.bg','','79.109.0.83','2010-11-10 00:09:53','2010-11-09 22:09:53','Did you visit Batak? What do you think if?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2466,3581,'Seascrambler','seascrambler@abv.bg','','93.155.206.152','2010-10-26 03:25:15','2010-10-26 03:25:15','Hi Karolinka,\r\n\r\n May I kindly suggest some minor improvements in your introduction in Bulgarian? If so, let\'s roll:\r\n\r\n1. \"Здрасти!\" - Sounds pretty informal, which is fine among friends, but for larger audience \"Здравейте\" seems more appropriate I believe.\r\n2. \"Хересвам тази страна и искам да жевея тук още енда година.\" - This hould be : \"ХAресвам тази страна и искам да жИвея тук още ЕДНА година.\"\r\n3. \"Преподавам Английска литература на дедети и единайсти клас.\" - Преподавам Английска литература на деСети и единадесети клас.\" . Shortened version of \"единадесети\" - \"единайсти\" is correct, but for a \"street\" use, not in a respectable blog :)\r\n4. \"Моята майка казва, че баща ме трябва да се разхожда вески ден, защото той е на 60 години.\" - \"Моята майка казва, че баща мИ трябва да се разхожда ВСЕКИ ден, защото Е на 60 години.\r\n\r\nThat\'s it. I home this will not offend you. Just tryi\' to help :)\r\n\r\nTake care...',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Avant Browser; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; AskTB5.5)','',0,0),(2467,3581,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-26 03:43:08','2010-10-26 03:43:08','@Seascrambler Thanks for your comments and close reading!! I need all of the help I can get.  This said, I think you might be trying to give me more credit than I deserve when you write “единайсти” is correct, but for a “street” use, not in a respectable blog.  I am not sure that this really is a respectable blog.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2466,1),(2733,3771,'Deia','deia@mail.bg','','64.30.2.130','2010-11-11 06:33:15','2010-11-11 04:33:15','Life is sooo unfair! I am coming home on the 11th, so I get to miss the concert by 4 days ;(\r\n\r\nAnd yes, Vasko Vassilev is freakin\' amazing! I\'m so jealous :P Have fun!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(2732,3766,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-11-11 02:28:53','2010-11-11 00:28:53','PLS share with us when/if you find out how it works. I am curious.\r\nActually, what sounds viable is that they get a Bulgarian license issued on the basis of their American one. Or the Bulgarian police just don\'t know that the international driving license is not valid in the country of residence. Or they just don\'t enforce the rule because it is stupid. Or our law does not say that after having resided in Bulgaria for more than six months your American driver\'s license is not valid (and you don\'t need the international one anyways).\r\nHaving been a foreigner in two countries already, I\'d be amazed to see Bulgaria as a foreigner...\r\nMaybe you could write a post about when you made your address registration? That must have been very interesting and shocking.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63','',2727,0),(2471,3608,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.113.7.70','2010-10-26 14:02:51','2010-10-26 14:02:51','Did you buy them? Are they more like Vienna Sausages (that come in a can) or like hot dogs (that I have never seen canned)? Why just end with a pretty picture when there is so much more to discover?\r\nLove,\r\nMoM',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2472,3602,'Nick (Macheesmo)','nick@macheesmo.com','http://www.macheesmo.com','208.73.109.10','2010-10-26 15:08:24','2010-10-26 15:08:24','Hey Whitney!\r\n\r\nIt\'s actually still the Misty Look theme... just a few CSS changes to adjust for new colors.\r\n\r\nLookin\' good C!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.0 Firefox/3.6.11','',2463,0),(2473,3602,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-26 15:11:41','2010-10-26 15:11:41','@Nick Thanks so much! But the truth is that I couldn\'t have done this without you. Well maybe I could have but I\'d still be working on it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2472,1),(2474,3608,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.210.173.25','2010-10-26 17:21:22','2010-10-26 17:21:22','Yes, where is the end of this story?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(2475,3608,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-26 17:54:50','2010-10-26 17:54:50','Oh you think that I should go for the hot dogs?! You\'re probably right. I am just not sure I can bring myself to buying hot dogs in a jar.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,1),(2476,3620,'foobar','foobar@disposeamail.com','','134.134.137.73','2010-10-26 21:58:00','2010-10-26 21:58:00','I think you mean \"moot\" point, not mute point :-)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11','',0,0),(2477,3608,'sts','ap.stamov@hotmail.com','','96.51.95.200','2010-10-26 23:11:09','2010-10-26 23:11:09','i like hit, they have a rather large beer selection that includes lots of fancy stuff you wouldn\'t normally find in sofia',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9','',0,0),(2478,3620,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-27 03:41:53','2010-10-27 03:41:53','@foobar Yep!! Good eye. I too make mistakes in English.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2476,1),(2749,3779,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.216','2010-11-12 12:26:08','2010-11-12 10:26:08','Cool. I can\'t promise, but I will try to get there. Maybe you\'ll feel more better knowing that no matter how bad you think you are at this, there\'s someone in the same room who is way worse. Also, a little horo and music never hurt anybody. And I did promise you a jar of ягодово сладко that I have yet to give you :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2480,171,'James','jamesharrell3@gmail.com','http://jamesharrell3.blogspot.com','94.44.31.92','2010-10-27 07:03:24','2010-10-27 07:03:24','I just linked this article to my blog.  Not only is it well-written, but it\'s super true.  Thanks for writing this!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101001 Firefox/3.5.14 GTB6','',0,0),(2748,3778,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','77.70.16.150','2010-11-12 12:26:07','2010-11-12 10:26:07','You should make Pumpkin banitsa or \"Тиквеник\". Very traditional, very tasty.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(2483,3642,'bendyourcircuit','glutathione@gmail.com','http://bendyourcircuit.wordpress.com/','93.221.183.158','2010-10-27 13:19:44','2010-10-27 13:19:44','Lol, Misho Shamara\'s in it!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11','',0,0),(2485,3642,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-27 15:23:52','2010-10-27 15:23:52','Who I just had to google to figure out who he is. Apparently, he\'s a Bulgarian rapper.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,1),(2487,3642,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-10-27 18:11:08','2010-10-27 18:11:08','That was the most randomest... thing I had ever seen. :D And it was hilarious.\r\nI got a bit annoyed that the guy got a Bulgarian girl during his first night in BG. I really wonder whether this stereotype is true and whether it really is a stereotype about Bulgaria in Western Europe or that\'s just how we think they should perceive us. Anyways, if there\'s really such a stereotype apparently it\'s the Bulgarian girls who created it and it\'s noone\'s fault.\r\nAgain the stereotype about the mafia... This time I\'d blame the media in Western Europe.\r\nKarolinke, have you yourself observed/experienced/heard of the Bulgarian mafia?\r\nOf course I liked the happy end and that \"our guy\" was a cop. ;)\r\nAnd I loved the British older sister. Does anyone have her phone number? :)',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63','',0,0),(2488,3608,'Brenda','wallawallabrenda@yahoo.com','','74.85.68.216','2010-10-27 19:47:05','2010-10-27 19:47:05','Hot dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3004,3877,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','84.238.226.41','2010-11-28 22:56:53','2010-11-28 20:56:53','Welcome back!\r\n\r\nWhen you travel,I travel too,so can\'t wait for more pictures and stories about your Madrid\'s weekend:)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3005,3877,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','87.222.147.194','2010-11-28 23:38:42','2010-11-28 21:38:42','Oh Ferdinand, you\'re hilarious! I\'m so glad to read about how much you liked Madrid. Can\'t wait for your next posts. Happy landing in Sofia, I\'ll let you know when the banitsa has disappeared ;)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010031422 Firefox/3.0.19','',0,0),(3264,3581,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-15 06:51:50','2010-12-15 04:51:50','@John Martin Taylor Wow!! An early welcome to Bulgaria to you and your husband. Some of my closest friends in Sofia are former PC volunteers who stayed on in the country. I look forward to meeting you both.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3260,1),(3260,3581,'John Martin Taylor','stonegroundgrits@yahoo.com','http://www.hoppinjohns.net','108.28.86.149','2010-12-15 03:21:18','2010-12-15 01:21:18','Hi,\r\nI stumbled on your site today because I was doing a little research on Bulgarian food and came across your blog post about polenta. I\'m an American food writer and purveyor of stone-ground, whole-grain, heirloom corn products (grits and cornmeal mush are nothing but polenta). I have both a commercial website www.hoppinjohns.com and a blog at www.hoppinjohns.net... But that\'s not why I\'m writing. My husband (yes, I\'m married to another man. My partner of 17+ years and I were legally married here in Washington DC in April) has been named as the incoming Peace Corps Country Director in Bulgaria and we\'ll be moving to Sofia in March. \r\nI thought I would reach out and introduce myself.\r\nThere\'s a disgusting amount of stuff about me and my life on my websites. And lots of recipes. I\'ll dig into your site -- while I try to adjust to the shock and get our house and car sold -- and we\'ll see where this goes from here. My husband is not yet 50; I\'m your mother\'s age (though many of my friends are closer to yours).\r\nTake care and I hope to see you in Sofia!\r\nJohn Martin Taylor',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(3259,4028,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-12-15 01:21:57','2010-12-14 23:21:57','AHH! That purse is adorable! Must visit that store first chance I get. I love \"upcycled\" accessories.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',0,0),(3020,3877,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-11-29 18:50:57','2010-11-29 16:50:57','You take great photos! Looks like you had a great time, now I really want to visit Madrid!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.5.15','',0,0),(3022,3877,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-29 21:30:05','2010-11-29 19:30:05','@Whitney if and when you have the chance you totally should go to Madrid. There are plenty of low cost flights from Sofia to Madrid and Barcelona.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3020,1),(3023,3899,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-11-29 22:23:27','2010-11-29 20:23:27','I grew up with Spanish and took it in school, but I never went to Spain, although I did visit Puerto Rico when I was a teen.  There are different dialects of Spanish all over Latin America, and many of them incorporate words that Castilian Spanish speakers will not recognize.  Some of them are native American words.\r\n\r\n My family who came from Puerto Rico (via Spain) speaks this weird Americanized form of Spanish  that we call Spanglish.  In our dialect, a \"bodega\" is a small grocery store, something like a convenience store with ethnic food.  In Spain it means something else.\r\n\r\nMy friend, who is a Spanish teacher in a nearby school, is not familiar with our dialect.  When I spoke to her about Puerto Rican Christmas food, I mentioned something called \"pasteles\", which are a dumpling made with plantain dough filled with meat.  She thought I was talking about cake, which in the Puerto Rican dialect is called \"bizcocho.\"  \r\n\r\nThanks for sharing your experiences in Spain.  I should have visited the place where my ancestors came from.  Maybe I will, in another lifetime :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2835,3828,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-11-19 09:16:38','2010-11-19 07:16:38','@Stan Ah, I am so jealous. But do you think that the cranberries are grown in Bulgaria? Where are the cranberry bogs?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2834,1),(2515,171,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-29 03:32:59','2010-10-29 03:32:59','@James Hey thanks! Also it looks like you have my friend Robyn\'s old position in Budapest this year. Hope that you\'re enjoying yourself.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2480,1),(2516,3648,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-10-29 03:34:40','2010-10-29 03:34:40','@Deb well the truth is that all books put me right to sleep these days. I need a couple of extra hours in a day.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2511,1),(2834,3828,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','78.142.58.87','2010-11-19 09:03:11','2010-11-19 07:03:11','Great about the mini-Thanksgiving you had!\r\n\r\nOn the cranberries part you should really have a walk in Vitosha. Around two months ago on a walk to Cherni Vrah I picked enough blueberries and cranberries for _two_ jars of jam, which we ended up eating on the same day they were made with pancakes. Gooood times... : )',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.576.0 Safari/534.12','',0,0),(3091,3933,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2010-12-03 01:25:18','2010-12-02 23:25:18','The taco shop was great. I don\'t have much, or any, experience with mexican food but it was delicious. And the staff there was super friendly if a bit... well... bulgarian :D I was with a friend and we were talking about Taco Bell and a woman of the staff said \"Yes, we have that too!!!\"... :D Maybe they are trying a bit too much, but it\'s an interesting place. \r\nI went there two times in one day and they remembered me and gave me a complimentary little dessert. :) I\'ll be sure to go there again.\r\n\r\nTalking about Shishman str. have you tried Supa Star?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(3393,4055,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2010-12-23 17:44:10','2010-12-23 15:44:10','Carolyn, since we have a married child we often have another \"Christmas\" a few days late with gifts and food and Christmas carols, what ever feels good and right.  We enjoy it in a way much more than the \"real\" Christmas because the tension from Christmas is gone. I think you will find you like it.  And your blog friends are so right, experience a Sophia Christmas – this may be your only chance to do that.  It would be a shame to move back to the US without ever having a Sophia Christmas. Make this a happy holiday there and here, you get two after all, a double blessing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(2520,3648,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-10-29 08:10:50','2010-10-29 08:10:50','Well, there is a chance that there was this kind of news in the press so the student transferred it correctly to you. But it doesn\'t necessarily mean that it is \"true news\" - I believe that both you and the student should remain sceptic.\r\nAlso, may I suggest that you watch the weather forecast in Bulgarian? They predict the cold and the snow for some days now. And they turned out right this time. It doesn\'t happen always but still quite often for a girl to trust them.\r\nVitosha looks exceptionally beautiful now, doesn\'t it?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(2522,3648,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-10-29 09:36:50','2010-10-29 09:36:50','@helen Yes! The mountain is very beautiful today covered in snow.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2520,1),(2805,3788,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-11-16 10:50:10','2010-11-16 08:50:10','typical anxiety dream :) you are worried about something in your walking life',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(2804,3818,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-11-16 10:46:08','2010-11-16 08:46:08','I know about these books. My mom\'s a teacher. And my aunt.\r\nActually I know about the profession pretty much :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(2786,3788,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-11-14 23:00:19','2010-11-14 21:00:19','The first experience I had with the Cyrillic alphabet was when my daughters took Russian in elementary school.  One of them, especially found it a struggle, the other found it rather easy.  The one who found it difficult called it the \"acrylic\" alphabet, we found that so funny! I learned a little of it, it was helpful when trying to decipher Bulgarian websites before Google Translate!\r\nI haven\'t dreamt about the \"acrylic\" alphabet...yet, although I\'m thinking of posting something on my blog about it sometime in the future.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2529,3651,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2010-10-29 16:28:59','2010-10-29 16:28:59','Aw, the wonderful Rhodopes. I LOVE it there (good thing as that is where I will be living). Enjoy it. We\'ll miss you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3','',0,0),(2783,3788,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2010-11-14 11:39:08','2010-11-14 09:39:08','Such a mess...yet so logical.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3620,4093,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','128.193.8.92','2011-01-04 22:52:05','2011-01-04 20:52:05','I was not excited about this dish, but it turned out GREAT. Really tasty. Good job!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3300,4040,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','71.94.187.231','2010-12-17 22:05:03','2010-12-17 20:05:03','Try doing a little proof reading.  I really think you meant \"Aw, shucks..\" not \"Aw, sucks.\"  (smiling)\r\nLove,\r\nMoM',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2792,3788,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-11-15 11:43:48','2010-11-15 09:43:48','That\'s not our fault. :)\r\n\r\nSomewhere between the invention of Latin and Cyrillic the Greeks started to pronounce β as /v/ so when adapting the Greek alphabet for use in Bulgarian they just had to add one extra letter.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3060,3913,'eva','evapopov@hotmail.com','','24.248.97.150','2010-12-01 19:31:01','2010-12-01 17:31:01','I love, love, love tapas. I love having small portions of a lot of different things. \r\nSounds like you had a wonderful time in Madrid!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(3064,3929,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-12-01 21:29:16','2010-12-01 19:29:16','Not sure what\'s the point of the posting, but 100 euro is the difference in price Wizz air vs Bulgaria air to Madrid.\r\nBuying the most expensive sandwich and coffee, checking in 20kg luggage is still 80 euro less than Bulgaria Air and lowcost personnel is just as friendly if not friendlier. The security in BG airports is same as always, adequate. \r\n\r\nBulgaria Air is miserable only when you have flown KLM/lufthansa or AirFrance for 10+ hours, then you sit down on the plane of Bulgaria Air, and you hear Bulgarian being spoken and people taking themselves too seriously, making themselves seem too important, making fuss about shit with the personnel. So i am not sure why you would expect BG AIR to be miserable, unless a Bulgarian friend has told you what i just typed. Bulgarians don\'t want to see other Bulgarians on planes. ENVY and shit.\r\n\r\nP.S I hate babies on planes!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3070,3929,'Ventsi','morfeimail@yahoo.com','','169.145.89.204','2010-12-02 03:57:37','2010-12-02 01:57:37','I hate the security in the US airports - X-Ray scanning, extensive patting down (between people legs, butt cheeks and boobs), no shoes, no liquids...\r\nIt is getting ridicules and the worst part is that all of the security measures are re-active to something that already happened.\r\nIf a terrorist finds a way to soak his cloths in something and then burns his cloths in an airplane I think will have to fly in robes provided by the airline. (that actually might be funny, no?)\r\nThe worst part is that making the life of Americans harder is one of the goals of terrorists:\r\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/world/middleeast/21parcel.html?_r=1',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2801,3818,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2010-11-16 08:58:15','2010-11-16 06:58:15','They look like printed in the 1950s. The procedure is probably the same since then. :D',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',2800,0),(2798,3818,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2010-11-16 01:44:36','2010-11-15 23:44:36','So you know a month in advance that you will be checked. :D:D:D\r\nI think that\'s extremely Bulgarian?',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63','',0,0),(2800,3818,'Anonimko','Anonimko@negodavam.com','','207.38.229.232','2010-11-16 03:33:53','2010-11-16 01:33:53','Another Bulgarian thing would be the minister\'s brother having the supply contract for these books that all schools are required to buy. Would not surprise me one bit.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2555,3651,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','90.154.133.74','2010-11-01 06:22:09','2010-11-01 06:22:09','Pity they didn\'t explain the meaning of the holiday to you in school. It has a lot to do with Ivan Vazov that you\'re currently reading. \r\nIt\'s not so much of \"enlightenment\" but of people who enlighten others - bring light; wake up them. Bulgarians have managed to keep national identity, culture and religion under five hundred years of Turkish dominance. And it was not a civil dominance. \r\nYou have a vocational holiday today because you are a teacher, you open the eyes of kids - show them new things, bring many and different possibilities for development or at least that should be the higher meaning of any teaching.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(2557,3651,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2010-11-01 10:20:59','2010-11-01 10:20:59','Here is some more information: November, 1st is the day of the leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival. The day is devoted to the bookmen, the enlighteners, the fighters for national liberation who have preserved through the centuries the spiritual values of the nation and its moral. The National Revival is a period when Bulgarians gathered spiritual and intellectual strength to establish their right of independent political and social existence, and their own culture and education. Outstanding figures of the Bulgarian National Revival, most of them educated abroad, gradually arrived at the idea of opening a school of higher education, which would make Bulgarians equal with other politically independent, socially organised and culturally emancipated nations. \r\nThe day is marked for the first time in Plovdiv in 1909 but in 1945 the celebration is banned. The marking of the day of Bulgaria’s enlighteners is restored in 1992. Some of the most popular Revival Leaders are Paisii Hilendarski, Ivan Vazov, Lyuben Karavelov, Georgi Rakovski, Vasil Levski, Hristo Botev, Dobri Chintulov.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 GTB7.1','',0,0),(2812,1844,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-17 06:35:08','2010-11-17 04:35:08','@Patty--Of course will send your greetings on to those three!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2811,1),(3093,3933,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-12-03 08:24:23','2010-12-03 06:24:23','@Apcho Okay, it\'s official. Your comment has me dreaming about tacos. I have to make time to go before Christmas. Maybe even this weekend.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3091,1),(3341,4048,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-12-19 15:29:19','2010-12-19 13:29:19','I find that odd.  If folk music is an indicator of a country\'s happiness, Bulgaria sounds like a really happy place.\r\n\r\nPeople in Latin America have higher happiness scores than the United States.  It has to do with taking time out to enjoy life and be with family and friends.  And their music shows it.  And most of them live in poverty.  Go figure?\r\n\r\nIn the States, on the other hand, listening to country music will make you so depressed you\'ll want to jump off the nearest bridge.  The main themes of country music are love gone wrong, drinking because of love gone wrong, homesickness and loneliness.  People here are not happy because they work too much and take too little time out for fun.  The state of the economy here doesn\'t help.\r\n\r\nWhat do you think?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(2811,1844,'Patty','panderson@k12albemarle.org','','24.125.163.7','2010-11-17 05:20:48','2010-11-17 03:20:48','So judging by the picture, it looks like Stoyan still organizes the folk dances for the Christmas concert.  Tell Stoyan, Vlado &amp; Dessi Y. that Patty says hi &amp; sends her love.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2561,3651,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-01 19:40:51','2010-11-01 19:40:51','@Whitney Don\'t worry I am back!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2529,1),(2562,3648,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-01 19:42:49','2010-11-01 19:42:49','@Bobby Hum, maybe I should brush up on my Bulgarian and watch the news/weather. If nothing else, I\'ll at least know what the weather <em>might</em> be.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2537,1),(2563,3642,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-01 19:43:26','2010-11-01 19:43:26','@Zikata--Sounds great. Glad you liked it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2548,1),(2564,3651,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-01 19:44:49','2010-11-01 19:44:49','@helen You\'re right. I should probably ask more questions about holidays like this one. Anyhow, here\'s to opening eyes!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2555,1),(2565,3651,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-01 19:46:47','2010-11-01 19:46:47','@Ivet So, any thoughts as to why the holiday was banned during the communist years in Bulgaria?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2557,1),(2828,3790,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-18 21:21:07','2010-11-18 19:21:07','@katley Good point!! And great inspiration!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2823,1),(3105,3937,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2010-12-04 00:24:50','2010-12-03 22:24:50','That hot chocolate looks downright sinful! And while I am not picky about my churros (I will eat them from carts at questionable events), those ones looks great.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2568,3655,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-11-01 23:20:34','2010-11-01 23:20:34','Ah! I am so jealous! Did you visit Yagodina Cave? I thought it had some pretty amazing formations. And from what I remember there was an alter inside where people get married. The tour guide told us that out of the 100 something marriages performed there; there hasn\'t been a single divorce. Must be a magic cave! \r\n\r\nLooks like you had lots of fun in Southern BG. It definitely holds a special place in my heart.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.5.15','',0,0),(2569,3655,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','90.154.133.74','2010-11-01 23:39:04','2010-11-01 23:39:04','Great pictures! You must\'ve had a really great long weekend. Good for you!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(2572,3655,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-02 04:31:40','2010-11-02 04:31:40','@Whitney I did visit the Yagodina cave. It\'s a really great cave and I\'m not really a cave person. We were told by our guide that over 220 people have been married there and then she added that all of the divorces happen at the cave the Devil\'s Throat... ha, ha.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2568,1),(3625,4132,'Robyn','robyndyanrusso@gmail.com','http://misplacedyinzer.wordpress.com/','98.233.48.146','2011-01-05 05:45:08','2011-01-05 03:45:08','Ahhh, the travels and fun we had, indeed! Was just reminiscing about our trip the other day -- it takes a special person to hop off a bus in the middle of nowhere Croatia and to hop into a UN van in Kosova. As the school year starts up...and I already find myself saying \"just remember the sun in Kotor, the emerald-colored water...and the beer nearby\" to get through the stress. I wish I could bottle up the feeling of backpacking with you through the Balkans (well, save the last few days when neither of us were feeling, errr, up to snuff :-) ) \r\n\r\nSo, where to next? And, when will you want to grab our packs and hit the road again?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2823,3790,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-11-18 15:20:43','2010-11-18 13:20:43','\"Dancers are the athletes of God.\" Albert Einstein.\r\nThanks for sharing this.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',2778,0),(2578,3651,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2010-11-02 12:34:02','2010-11-02 12:34:02','I don\'t know. Maybe its noble pathos was incompatible with the ideas of the former regime.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 GTB7.1','',2565,0),(2579,3620,'Matt T.','mthomp28@gmail.com','','134.114.26.122','2010-11-02 15:09:13','2010-11-02 15:09:13','Carolyn,\r\n\r\nReally nice photos. I used to walk along that fence each Saturday for a few months. It was so pretty and quiet out there. If you see Tanya, give her mnogo pozdravi ot men! Wish you all the best! Vsichko hubavo! :)\r\n\r\nMatt',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3351,4048,'Марин','mguergov@yahoo.com','','94.26.19.109','2010-12-20 14:14:41','2010-12-20 12:14:41','I think that the low figures are due to the post-socialist \"democratic\" development of Bulgaria, there is no direct connection with the socialist era. During the last 20 years the active people lost their optimism, witnessing (and no participating in) relatively slow changes.\r\nI would try to show my personal scale during the last years:\r\n1990 rate 2 (empty shops)\r\n1992 rate 8 (SDS governmet)\r\n1994 rate 5\r\n1996 rate 2 (bankrups)\r\n1997 rate 5 (start SDS goverment)\r\n1999 rate 7 \r\n2001 rate 5 (end of SDS government, start of NDSV)\r\n2005 rate 6\r\n2008 rate 8 (before the start of the crisis)\r\n2010 rate 6',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61','',0,0),(3114,3937,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.172','2010-12-04 19:46:20','2010-12-04 17:46:20','I loved making myself some hot chocolate like that when I was a kid. Though it never looked this good. And I\'m not sure, but these churros sound and look a lot like elongated мекици or бухти. I\'m pretty sure you can make yourself a similar breakfast here. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3626,4132,'Robyn','robyndyanrusso@gmail.com','http://misplacedyinzer.wordpress.com/','98.233.48.146','2011-01-05 05:46:27','2011-01-05 03:46:27','PS: The long border crossing wasn\'t that bad ...  in retrospect, we probably both needed to burn a few meat-topia calories ;-)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3627,4132,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.129','2011-01-05 09:37:48','2011-01-05 07:37:48','This is a great round up! And Im so jealous you got to see all these places in just one year! Wow. I plan to travel a lot in the area this year and I just added Montenegro to my list! :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(3089,3874,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','128.193.8.92','2010-12-02 23:12:04','2010-12-02 21:12:04','I think this is a lovely list. I want you to know that we missed you on Thanksgiving (and could have used your sense of humor and extra set of hands in the kitchen) but we knew you were having a wonderful adventure. Can\'t wait to see you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2586,3655,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-11-02 19:29:57','2010-11-02 19:29:57','We went to Devil\'s Throat too. It did seem like a more divorcey sort o\' place! ;)\r\n\r\nSounds like they have some competition with each other. What a good pitch for a TV show... \"Cave Wars.\" LOL\r\n\r\nAs always, great post!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.5.15','',2572,0),(3628,3276,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.130','2011-01-05 11:03:50','2011-01-05 09:03:50','I come from Lithuania and in mid 90s we had an English teacher from US, Ann-Marie, at our school. We totally loved her! I remember once she brought American toilet paper to the classroom and we all took a piece of it as a souvenir, lol! It was soft and white and multi-layered and had a pattern, whereas ours was brown and rough and looked like a tree bark.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(2592,3678,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.175.159','2010-11-03 13:27:16','2010-11-03 13:27:16','Eee, I don\'t like heights and it makes my stomach queasy to see someone even near the edge of a high space.  Those mountains behind you in that picture could easily be in Washington state somewhere!  Nice.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(2593,3678,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.153','2010-11-03 14:27:56','2010-11-03 14:27:56','Thing is,  you only get to see a small part of the Devil\'s Throat. Still, the remarkable part is that according to legend, this is where Orpheus went down into Hades\'s domain for Eurydice. And the Yagodina cave is where some skilled potters lived 6000 years ago, but I have yet to go there. \r\nAnyway, I\'m glad you had a good time on your trip. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2603,3678,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','83.228.3.176','2010-11-04 11:07:25','2010-11-04 11:07:25','If you didn\'t buy tea or/and honey from the old folks outside of Devil\'s Throat you made a big mistake. : )',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(2605,3691,'Ira','ira.ruseva@gmail.com','','164.143.240.34','2010-11-04 12:12:39','2010-11-04 12:12:39','That was the delicacy of my childhood! And as everything from childhood it did taste much better back than then it tastes now :). You can find it in almost any corner shop in a box next to the tills.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(2606,3691,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-11-04 12:40:46','2010-11-04 12:40:46','@Ira now that I know it exists I am going to have to keep an eye out for it!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2605,1),(2607,3691,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-11-04 12:41:13','2010-11-04 12:41:13','@Andrey Oh, I don\'t know. What do you think the difference is?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2600,1),(2608,3678,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-11-04 12:42:22','2010-11-04 12:42:22','@Stan Don\'t worry! I bought both. I\'ve never just boiled herbs to make tea before but I\'m going to give it a shot. How hard can it be?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2603,1),(2609,3678,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','78.142.58.87','2010-11-04 13:48:53','2010-11-04 13:48:53','Oh no worries, the bag should have instructions ...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n.. in bulgarian :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.570.0 Safari/534.11','',2608,0),(2611,3672,'Slaveja','s.milanova@acs.bg','','78.90.91.200','2010-11-04 18:13:28','2010-11-04 18:13:28','I was so shocked and excited to see you in Velingrad too. And like you said, in an almost empty restaurant!!!! Yes, it is a small world! This was so cool. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6.6; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)','',0,0),(2845,3833,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','78.40.137.227','2010-11-20 14:18:05','2010-11-20 12:18:05','I think you might like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_%28Cory_Doctorow_novel%29 if you haven\'t read it yet.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2844,3828,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-20 10:10:03','2010-11-20 08:10:03','@Whitney I can\'t agree more--everything is better in miniature!! As for the cocktails at the Ambassador\'s house that was pretty fun too. The residence is beautiful and decorated with the art of some really outstanding Bulgarian artists.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2843,1),(2615,3672,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-04 22:13:04','2010-11-04 20:13:04','@Slaveja right!? It was a wonderful surprise to see you in Velingrad but completely unexpected!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2611,1),(2843,3828,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2010-11-20 00:57:04','2010-11-19 22:57:04','A cocktail party at the Ambassador\'s house? How exciting! Plus, the food sounds great, everything is better in miniature!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2620,824,'Zikata','militza_nic_zic@yahoo.com','http://www.zikata.wordpress.com','168.122.189.67','2010-11-05 06:44:59','2010-11-05 04:44:59','You should go back to Kazanlak next June and see the rose-picking and the Festival of the Rose! \r\n I just wrote about it in connection with Kary Perry\'s new perfume Purr with essential oils from Bulgarian rose: \r\n  <a href=\"http://zikata.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/bulgarian-rose-oil-in-katy-perry%E2%80%99s-purr-and-chanel-no-5/\" rel=\"nofollow\">What do Katy Perry\'s Purr and Chanel No.5 Have in Common: Bulgarian Rose Oil!</a>\r\n\r\nCheers!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7','',0,0),(2622,3691,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','84.238.226.41','2010-11-05 08:47:02','2010-11-05 06:47:02','oh,one of my favorite sweets which reminds me of my childhood .',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2626,3722,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','83.228.3.176','2010-11-05 10:38:44','2010-11-05 08:38:44','http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=bg&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D0%259F%25D0%25B8%25D1%2580%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BD%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B8_%25D1%2587%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B9\r\n\r\nYour unknown herb is no longer unknown :Р',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.28 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(2627,3722,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','195.24.39.173','2010-11-05 11:08:46','2010-11-05 09:08:46','This is a great tea. So great that police guards the meadows when it\'s ready to be picked',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.6; en-us; Dell Streak Build/Donut) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1','',0,0),(2628,3722,'bendyourcircuit','glutathione@gmail.com','http://bendyourcircuit.wordpress.com/','93.221.191.204','2010-11-05 11:15:47','2010-11-05 09:15:47','The police guards he meadows? Why? o_O',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',2627,0),(2631,3722,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','71.94.190.249','2010-11-05 16:25:24','2010-11-05 14:25:24','Thanks for the link to the translation about Pirin tea.  I like to know what my girl is drinking.  \r\nI did get a kick out of one sentence: \"1 Drink a glass of wine before meals 3 times a day instead of water.\"  I am hoping it is referring to the tea (maybe in a wine glass?) rather than advocating wine before 3 meals.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2626,0),(2632,3722,'anonimko','anonimko@mailinator.com','','70.52.42.157','2010-11-05 16:28:14','2010-11-05 14:28:14','My grandmother is from the Pirin region, and she calls it Pirinski Chay (tea). We always had it at home as a kid, and usually blended it with 2-3-4 other plants (i.e. \"mashterka\" \"shipka\" \"rigan\" \"kantarion\" etc.)-- the babi should have these available.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2908,3833,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-22 18:14:42','2010-11-22 16:14:42','@Milen very cool. Thanks for sending me this information. I guess I know what I am reading for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2907,1),(2907,3833,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','87.118.153.147','2010-11-22 17:51:51','2010-11-22 15:51:51','@karolinka\r\nCory Doctorow typically releases his books under a Creative Commons license, so you can download a free electronic copy of the book, including in Kindle format from http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466/little-brother or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30142. When you read it, if you like it you can buy a copy :). Cory Doctorow is also a great proponent of the Creative Commons licenses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses) and has published a number of essays on the subject.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53','',2892,0),(2903,3833,'ГЙ','gjordanoff@gmail.com','','90.154.195.251','2010-11-22 10:17:41','2010-11-22 08:17:41','Here\'s another video about TSA and their... gentle touch.\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joIxWcFO3bY',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2904,3847,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','83.228.3.176','2010-11-22 10:57:15','2010-11-22 08:57:15','I absolutely love oats! My quick breakfast recipe is 50gr oats, 150ml milk, 15gr rasins, 1/2 minced apple, and some cinnamon. 2 minutes in the microwave =&gt; nom nom nom.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.200 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3173,3971,'Katja','Samizdat.katja@gmail.com','','97.90.64.91','2010-12-08 08:45:07','2010-12-08 06:45:07','This is cool! I used to go to Hacienda in Sarajevo. I found it with my nose. The owner did a good job. I lived in Mexico as a kid, so I do know from Mexican food. Nice to see it available in Sofia! ت',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; ar) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16','',0,0),(2900,3578,'Heather','heather@matadornetwork.com','http://matadornetwork.com/abroad','76.24.113.47','2010-11-22 05:55:08','2010-11-22 03:55:08','Just wanted to let you know your blog has been featured in a post on \"20 Awesome Expat Blogs\" on Matador Abroad!\r\n\r\nhttp://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesome-expat-blogs/',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.1 Safari/533.17.8','',0,0),(2897,3655,'20 Awesome Expat Blogs','','http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesome-expat-blogs/','174.129.68.81','2010-11-22 05:44:13','2010-11-22 03:44:13','[...] and small towns with all the zeal of a backpacking undergrad. The enthusiasm and pretty photos from Rhodopes in Autumn can be triggers of [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.0.1','pingback',0,0),(2936,3828,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-23 18:36:31','2010-11-23 16:36:31','@Culturegrrrl Well, thank-you!! You certainly have good taste and way to really ramp the event with turkey and cranberries!! I\'ll be heading home for Christmas on the 23rd year so I\'ve got my MoM\'s food to look forward too.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2916,1),(2934,3859,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2010-11-23 17:19:38','2010-11-23 15:19:38','Ditto!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',2931,0),(2656,3722,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','24.20.160.40','2010-11-07 07:43:27','2010-11-07 05:43:27','I\'m glad to know what this herb is. The idea of you drinking unknown herb tea made me nervous!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2658,3722,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-07 08:18:46','2010-11-07 06:18:46','@Charlotte and MoM I had no idea that everyone would be <em>so</em> concerned about me drinking tea.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2656,1),(2931,3859,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.195','2010-11-23 13:35:50','2010-11-23 11:35:50','Congratulations! It is a good blog and you keep it interesting for both Bulgarians and foreigners. Thumbs up for you. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3421,4060,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.215','2010-12-24 23:54:41','2010-12-24 21:54:41','I\'m glad you\'re having a good time despite the flight troubles.\r\nAnd don\'t worry about Santa. Apart from the warp drive in the sleigh and the metamaterial suit of invisibility, he can open small controlled wormholes through spacetime. At least that\'s what I heard. So unless his satellite tracking network breaks down, your gifts should find you here just fine. \r\n\r\nThere are very few books I have re-read. A couple by Mayne Reid and Emilio Salgari (when I was but a wee lad), some by Terry Pratchett and one called Han Solo\'s Revenge :P. So unless I\'ve had a really good time with a certain story (and have forgotten at least half of it), I don\'t think it\'s worth the time reading it again, when I can read something new. \r\nI\'ve always wondered what books you discuss with your students (besides 1984), because in university it seemed to be \"only teach them about books they won\'t go and read on their own\"...\r\n\r\nBah, I digress, happy holidays to you! And loads of Christmas cheer!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3269,4028,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-12-15 16:41:06','2010-12-15 14:41:06','@MadWizard What?! Are you saying that it gets even better than Zona Urbana?! I can\'t wait to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion. I guess it begs the question: where have I been living--under a rock!?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3268,1),(2663,3758,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.42.28.93','2010-11-07 12:15:01','2010-11-07 10:15:01','Poor lady!\r\nDon\'t you need to see a doctor?\r\nYour mom would go crazy reading all that.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(2925,3859,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-23 06:48:24','2010-11-23 04:48:24','@dAd Thanks!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2922,1),(2926,3859,'Sarah','sarah.f.howell@gmail.com','','24.255.121.178','2010-11-23 06:51:31','2010-11-23 04:51:31','Congrats Karolinka!! :) I do enjoy my blog perusing when it takes me to your posts :) \r\nKeep on writing! \r\n-Sarah',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5','',0,0),(3271,4004,'anonymous','anonymous@abv.bg','','87.120.219.101','2010-12-15 23:09:39','2010-12-15 21:09:39','Speaking of bulgarian rock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1oKgvOyjcw - here\'s something newer that gathered a few \'legends\' together for a project.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.495.0 Safari/534.6','',0,0),(2924,3837,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-23 06:46:59','2010-11-23 04:46:59','@Robyn!! Good eye. Yes, it is in fact 11 huge trays of Mr. Marquis Marvelous Stuffing. <em>But,</em> meat free.  I don\'t want to give 125 teachers, staff, family and friends food poisoning for Thanksgiving. <em>Thankfully</em>, I did not.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2918,1),(2922,3859,'dAd','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.142.202','2010-11-23 05:29:40','2010-11-23 03:29:40','Andreytcho,\r\nAn expat is someone who is no longer living in their own country.  How many expats (from any country) are living in Bulgaria and are writing in Bulgarian?  Not many - it would seem that there would actually be less competition among expats writing in Bulgarian.\r\nIt seems like Karolinka is doing just fine... after all you have become a loyal reader and very often her writing even inspires you to comment.\r\n\r\nCongratulations Karolinka!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2915,0),(2918,3837,'Robyn','Robyndyanrusso@gmail.com','','164.106.228.54','2010-11-23 00:23:55','2010-11-22 22:23:55','Dudette! Does this happen to be the famous Marquis stuffing, which made its way to Budapest as well?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2671,3758,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-07 21:08:23','2010-11-07 19:08:23','@helen I haven\'t seen a doctor. I am not sure that a doctor could tell me much more than confirm that it was broken. As for my MoM she handled things pretty well when I told her tonight on skype.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2663,1),(2685,3760,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-11-08 15:19:09','2010-11-08 13:19:09','I lived in Germany and the term they used was \"Altweiber Sommer\" (old wive\'s summer).  As for the political correctness of that, I\'m not sure, though if you think about it, older people are in the autumn of their life.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(2687,3760,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.77','2010-11-08 17:21:40','2010-11-08 15:21:40','\"I urge kids to be as politically correct as possible in class.\"\r\nI remember the good old times when censorship wasn\'t thought at schools.\r\n\r\nKatley - that german expression is about the \"heat waves\" women over 50 get a.k.a menopause :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2689,3760,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-08 18:58:17','2010-11-08 16:58:17','@Andreytcho Yep. That\'s me. Big Brother in the classroom!! It\'s funny, I knew that if anyone would jump on this idea, it would be you. This said, I think it\'s important for students to know the power of language as well as what language is offensive and reinforces stereotypes of the other.  So in my mind it\'s not about censorship and much, much more about making sure that students know both the vocabulary, the usage and the power of these words both positive and negative.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2687,1),(2691,3758,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-11-08 20:19:03','2010-11-08 18:19:03','Anyway,a X-ray picture is not that bad idea!Hope that your toe will get better quickly,but seriously,is ibuprofen going to be enough...?\r\n\r\nTake care!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8','',0,0),(2695,3760,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.42.28.93','2010-11-08 22:15:30','2010-11-08 20:15:30','I agree that it is important to know the power of language and how it reinforces stereotypes but I am afraid that it all boils down to \"what to say in class so as to please the teacher and get sixes at the end\". Which is exactly the kind of behaviour I would rather not encourage. You are not really sure what they actually think and how they speak and behave when not in class.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',2689,0),(3780,4198,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','95.18.228.87','2011-01-12 19:51:53','2011-01-12 17:51:53','You haven\'t gone to Iraqi Kurdistan yet? They take us Spaniards there on field trips...\r\n\r\nI\'ve been to London; Thessalonika; I\'ve seen the Danube several times and from several places (Beuron, in Germany, where it actually flows from; Vienna; Belgrade...) and I passed by Guimaraes in Portugal once. I guess I\'d like to visit Estonia and Washington, but hey, give me a good pair of shoes and I\'m outta here visitin\'! \r\n\r\nStrange that Gabrovo wasn\'t on the list...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010031422 Firefox/3.0.19','',0,0),(2699,3760,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-11-09 04:38:15','2010-11-09 02:38:15','@Andreytcho, I remember those days myself, when censorship wasn\'t taught in schools.  It is so different now, and you have to be so careful with what you say.\r\nLOL about the menopause, those hot flashes are no joke!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',2687,0),(3790,4198,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-01-13 11:35:17','2011-01-13 09:35:17','I have been to 4/41, and that is because I have been to 18 other countries and 90+ cities not on there. As usual such lists are lame.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3209,4004,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-12-11 10:55:53','2010-12-11 08:55:53','Just call it \"Sheraton\" we will get it. One of my friends had her wedding there - it was the best wedding I\'ve ever attended in my life. \r\nBTR is a nice group - melody hard rock and metal - the frontman has a very nice voice. \r\nGlad you enjoyed the party. Lucky teachers. For the rest of us it is a working day today (to compensate in advance for Dec 31st that would be a non-working day)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(2711,3760,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.32','2010-11-09 18:46:06','2010-11-09 16:46:06','Meh, watching out not to insult anyone when it\'s not needed, is all good and well, but sometimes the whole PC idea is a bit silly. I mean, really - someone in your class called it a Roma Summer? Yeah, some time ago they decided \"roma\" is more offical than \"gypsy\", but since then \"roma\" has been used in so much negative stories and context, that it\'s hardly less offensive. And I think it\'s a bit ridiculous to rename such an expression as \"Gypsy Summer\". Or when whatever group insists that being referred to in a certain way is offensive, while referring to themselves in the same way is ok. But what do I know :P\r\nAnyway, I guess you aren\'t hearting the windy weather of the last couple of days. Stuff falling off roofs and whatnot.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2712,3758,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.32','2010-11-09 18:57:05','2010-11-09 16:57:05','One more vote to go see a doctor. Black, blue, broken - I don\'t think an ibuprofen or two can fix that. When I break something, healing involves x-rays, bandages and cold packs. A splint may be needed, so it heals properly. Certainly a doctor would do more than say \"yep, it\'s broken\" and send you on your merry way.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3776,4182,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-12 17:14:05','2011-01-12 15:14:05','Nobody wants to go to the bank?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3734,0),(3778,4193,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2011-01-12 18:29:53','2011-01-12 16:29:53','Surprisingly I agree with Andreytcho.  My German didn\'t solidify until I lived with a family. The kids had a big impact because they didn\'t speak English.  My language skills improved dramatically when the highly articulate grandmother would speak nothing else with me because she felt my German was not developing quickly enough.  Andrew\'s Russian didn\'t solidify even after three years in Moscow because he wasn\'t really using it enough.  And yes,  jet-lag can effect language.  I remember returning directly to school from Germany in a jet-lag haze and reading The Last of the Mohicans for American Lit.  I kept substituting German words for those coming out of the mouth of native-American Chingachgook.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(2715,3766,'Vall','vall@yahoo.com','','82.132.210.95','2010-11-09 21:03:08','2010-11-09 19:03:08','Your US driver license is not valid in Bulgaria since you have lived there more than a year.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7','',0,0),(2717,3766,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-09 21:49:30','2010-11-09 19:49:30','@Vall Interesting point. I actually don\'t think that\'s true. I know plenty of Americans who drive legally registered cars as foreigners. My understanding is that they drive with their state driver\'s license and an addendum of sorts--the International Driver\'s License.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2715,1),(2731,3766,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.175.159','2010-11-10 23:43:25','2010-11-10 21:43:25','Hey, thanks, I wondered.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',2730,0),(3516,4048,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.129','2010-12-30 14:11:51','2010-12-30 12:11:51','Ha, I spent 4 years in Finland and I was more or less miserable living there. It\'s my third month in Bulgaria and I don\'t remember when I was happier. Go figure. \r\nCame accross your blog today (bored at work :p), looking forward to reading more!\r\nHappy New Year to you and your loved ones!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(2735,3766,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.178','2010-11-11 12:05:41','2010-11-11 10:05:41','Recently I read an anecdote about Lada: \"A man walks in a shop and asks the seller: Do you have spare parts for Lada? - What do you need? - Two 10 cm nails and 1 m of wire. \" :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 GTB7.1','',0,0),(2736,3766,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2010-11-11 12:08:42','2010-11-11 10:08:42','@Ivet Ha, ha. That\'s perfect. And probably a good reason I shouldn\'t buy a Lada.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2735,1),(2737,3655,'Petar','pmalenkin@abv.bg','','79.109.0.83','2010-11-11 15:56:03','2010-11-11 13:56:03','Thank you!\r\nI\'m from Batak and I\'m very surprised of the way of your life in Bulgaria, you always post about all the faces of Bulgaria and you seem very interested in learning new and new things, culture, nature, people...\r\nAs I said, I\'m from Batak but I live in Spain and here I usually do the same things as you, and I\'m very interested in what an American thinks about my country. \r\nGood luck with your Bulgarian life! :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',2720,0),(3525,4086,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2010-12-30 21:33:21','2010-12-30 19:33:21','Finally! I was really wondering whether evrything\'s fine with you:)!Happy New 2011!\r\n\r\nBest wishesh to your family,your dAd\'s blog rocks!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2752,3778,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','83.228.3.176','2010-11-12 14:48:35','2010-11-12 12:48:35','This is almost the exact recipe my grandma useses for tikvenik and its aweeesome!\r\n\r\nhttp://translate.google.bg/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=bg&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://forum.bg-mamma.com/index.php%3Ftopic%3D352202.0\r\n\r\n(I didn\'t check the translation, but I suppose it\'s understandable-ish)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.200 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(2753,3549,'Tsveti','tsvete_trichkova@abv.bg','','77.70.100.62','2010-11-12 19:47:56','2010-11-12 17:47:56','Hi, Karolinka,\r\nI stumbled upon your blog while searching for a pumpkin jam recipe - I never thought I would come across a Bulgarian jam. Yes, it\'s called рач\'ел (the stress falls on the e), and it\'s made with slacked lime which was used a lot by our grandmothers in making preserves from mushy fruit - pumpkin, figs (green), even strawberries. You might also have noticed that we have quite a few words for jam (depending on the sugar content), which are difficult to translate into English - at least for me... Best wishes,\r\nTsveti',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3523,4086,'Melly','melissa@melissaroberts.org','','209.220.223.66','2010-12-30 20:33:47','2010-12-30 18:33:47','Best. Picture. Ever. :) Glad you made it safely home to Walla Walla... missing you! :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2756,3778,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','84.238.226.41','2010-11-12 21:39:42','2010-11-12 19:39:42','Vote for Stan\'s recipe with both my hands,you will not regret!:)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2757,3778,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-11-12 21:58:34','2010-11-12 19:58:34','Well, I did get a kick out the way to measure the baking soda.  \"baking soda on top if the sword\"\r\nSmiling!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',2752,0),(2758,3778,'Tsveti','tsvete_trichkova@abv.bg','','77.70.100.62','2010-11-12 22:16:42','2010-11-12 20:16:42','Hi, Karolinka,\r\nTikvenik sounds great, or pumpkin soup. Until recently I didn\'t know you could make spicy or savoury dishes with pumpkin, traditionally at home it\'s been used for sweet things, like tikvenik or  pumpkin rice pudding, or just baked and sprinkled with some walnuts and honey :)\r\nTsveti',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3519,4086,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2010-12-30 16:35:52','2010-12-30 14:35:52','You may not like the picture, but I sure love the earrings.  Where did you get them?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3853,4205,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-15 03:19:36','2011-01-15 01:19:36','God forbid any Danish cheese!',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',3836,0),(3268,4028,'MadWizard','dobriman@gmail.com','http://dobriman.blogspot.com','95.87.244.223','2010-12-15 16:18:20','2010-12-15 14:18:20','And this is not all!\r\n\r\nIf you need something special, you can visit directly \"the workshop\".\r\nYou can find it on Rakovski str. #145  right next to \"Happy\" in front of National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFIZ in bulgarian).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(2775,3779,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-13 17:34:07','2010-11-13 15:34:07','@Bobby, thanks for coming it was great to see you but I owe you an even bigger thank-you for the jam!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,1),(2778,3790,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.56','2010-11-13 22:21:12','2010-11-13 20:21:12','I\'m glad I made it. Like I said, if you hadn\'t blogged about it, I would have missed it. These events get no publicity, and they should. Just as with things like the Vitosha cleaning initiative - the best they can hope for is a short mention on the evening news. After the event. So thanks for the information. :)\r\nI was expecting more traditional garments, though. Still, matching shirts are OK for such an event and there was that group were they looked like they just stepped out of work for a few dances. It was good and funny. The only costumes I didn\'t like were the all black ones with a rug tucked in the belt. They looked like waiters in a seaside restaurant. The rest was pretty good, though. These things should be done more often.\r\nAnd hey, you weren\'t the worst dancer there. You put more effort in it than a lot of people and you were better than them. \r\nBtw, Hristo Botev hall is well-known place for concerts despite its notoriously poor acoustics. It\'s a sports hall and it\'s not exactly new, as you may have guessed by the giant Todor Zhivkov portrait at the back entrance :P\r\n\r\nAbout the jam - my favourite way of eating it is with cheese inside a pancake (without the strawberries). Though some people don\'t like the cheese combination, and I remember my pancake idea didn\'t quit work with the pumpkin jam. So you just eat it however you feel like :) I hope you like it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3006,3578,'Andrew Dunkle','andrew@gooverseas.com','http://www.gooverseas.com','24.7.84.162','2010-11-29 01:40:23','2010-11-28 23:40:23','Hi Carolyn,\r\n\r\nI couldn\'t find any contact information, so I decided to leave a comment here.\r\n\r\nI\'m Andrew Dunkle and I currently serve as the senior editor of GoOverseas.com. We are contacting you with regard to your blog, which the editorial staff at GO! Overseas has selected as one of the top travel related blogs in Bulgaria. As recognition of your outstanding writing skills we are delighted to include your blog in a select list of websites representing Bulgaria. We select only the most exceptional blogs that meet our exacting standards and we hope you feel a sense of pride that you have been recognized for your efforts. You may view this list on our website here:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.gooverseas.com/bulgaria-blogs\r\n\r\nYou are welcome to display one of the image badges we have created specifically for blogs we feature in Bulgaria. This is an easy way to let your readers know that you have been recognized as an outstanding blogger. Please contact us to receive a badge via email.\r\n\r\nThank you for all the high quality content you have contributed to the global online community. We look forward to continuing to follow your experiences abroad in Bulgaria. If you have questions about GO! Overseas please don\'t hesitate to contact us.\r\n\r\nWarm regards,\r\nAndrew Dunkle\r\n--\r\nandrew@gooverseas.com',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2889,3828,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','78.142.58.87','2010-11-21 17:19:58','2010-11-21 15:19:58','Ah I did some reasearch and it turned out that I was talking about this kind of \"cherveni borovinki\": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_vitis-idaea : ) Sorry about missleading you.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.587.0 Safari/534.12','',2835,0),(2891,3828,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-21 21:11:34','2010-11-21 19:11:34','Yum, yum. I like the lingonberry too!! But you\'re right it\'s not the cranberry that I know.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2889,1),(2892,3833,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-21 21:15:25','2010-11-21 19:15:25','@Galarad sounds like a great book. I\'ll have to see if I can get my hands on a copy at Christmas time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2845,1),(3172,749,'Katja','Samizdat.katja@gmail.com','','97.90.64.91','2010-12-08 08:30:53','2010-12-08 06:30:53','I had boza in a kafana in Sarajevo, ot was light. It tasted a bit like lemonade. I thought it was good. I sometimes make kvas. Not bad if you van get REAL black Russian rye bread. My mother used to make kvas. She is who taught me how it is done. I got hold of a recipe for Albanian style boza, which is made from of all things corn-meal. It is damn near the same as Cherokee corn beer! I have some in the fridge right now. I ended up being given a lot of corn-meal and already knew boza could be made from corn meal and about   Cherokee corn beer. It is not at all hard to make at home and if you add some REAL vanilla, a few stopa on top and a little sprinkle of cinnamon, it is not at all bad. People who put aspartame in boza are defeating the whole purpose of the drink. The stuff will keep good more than three days in a cold enough fridge, and Real boza is very nourishing.\r\n\r\nThe real thing has lactic acid, it has B vitamins and it is far better than that awful bottled swill. I woulnt feed a pig that stuff, probably the pig would not eat it! ت',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; ar) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16','',0,0),(3170,3971,'dAd','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.142.202','2010-12-08 06:02:51','2010-12-08 04:02:51','I think that I need to take all of you girls to my favorite taco wagon (portable Mexican food restaurant on wheels) when you are home.  Then you can have some authentic Mexican food for comparison.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3171,3971,'Patrick','patrickerdley@gmail.com','','95.111.32.185','2010-12-08 07:13:57','2010-12-08 05:13:57','Mexico has 31 states and the city. Cuisine differs from the north, which is desert like and good for ranching, to the south where the food is more \"Central American.\" My experience has been that most Mexican families prefer corn over flour tortillas, and taco meat is often composed of the insides, like tongue. In that respect, it\'s probably closer to Bulgarian food than we think. \r\n\r\nStill, I don\'t think anyone is importing corn tortillas.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 AskTbBT5/3.9.1.14019 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2913,3859,'Stefan','stivan81@gmail.com','','212.117.62.54','2010-11-22 21:32:27','2010-11-22 19:32:27','Congratulations! Not that I have read too many other expat blogs to be able to compare, but having followed yours for some time now it is beyond any doubt to me that this is a honour well deserved. Keep it up! :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2915,3859,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-11-22 21:49:07','2010-11-22 19:49:07','Don\'t get rankings get to you. They make lists for all kinds of things. It feels good to be mentioned I am sure.\r\nIf you write in Bulgarian there will be a lot more competition :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(2916,3828,'Culturegrrrl','pubdip@yahoo.com','','95.42.15.67','2010-11-22 22:18:07','2010-11-22 20:18:07','Carolinka- glad you had a good time. The Thanksgiving Food was my idea (as was the turkey- I had to donate mine as he didn\'t have one and they had not arrived yet).  Glad you enjoyed it.  Let me know if you are around for Christmas and I can make sure you get cranberry sauce and all the fixings.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(3448,4068,'Aunt Jane','jlaaker@centurytel.net','','207.118.126.9','2010-12-26 00:09:52','2010-12-25 22:09:52','Merry Christmas \r\n\r\nWe love you-see you soon',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; FunWebProducts; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; im_en_0002)','',0,0),(2951,3862,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','212.49.164.20','2010-11-24 13:37:48','2010-11-24 11:37:48','Been thinking of places I\'d take you to if I didn\'t have to work. I think the weather\'s going to be nice (sunny &amp; cloudy, and temperatures from 1 to 13º C which ain\'t bad; bring a whoolly jumper!). \r\nHere are some places you might be interested in, in order of Must\'s and Could\'s:\r\n1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buen_Retiro_Park\r\n2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Debod\r\n3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Via [the Main Street with all the shops I told you about]\r\n4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chueca [Madrid\'s Gay village, very lively and a stone\'s throw away from Gran Vía]\r\n5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerta_del_Sol\r\n6. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_de_Cibeles\r\n\r\nI\'ll be the one who organises the trip to Salamanca :) By the way, American meal for tomorrow evening!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(2952,3862,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','212.49.164.20','2010-11-24 13:47:29','2010-11-24 11:47:29','Oh, and if you want 2nd-hand books check out http://www.bookstoreguide.org/2008/02/petras-international-bookshop.html which isn\'t far from where you\'ll be staying. Forgot to mention, the cathedral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almudena_Cathedral), which is located right next to the Royal Palace, is well worth visiting, and also the crypt right below (going round the corner, you access it via the Cuesta de la Vega, on the corner). The Cathedral I think is free, and the Crypt is about one Euro; most of Madrid\'s 19th century nobility is buried there, as are a couple of princes. Sadly, most royals are buried outside the city in the Monastery of El Escorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Escorial) and we won\'t be able to visit it.\r\nOn a sadder note, if you want to see the Monument to the victims of the Al-Qaeda attacks of 2004 it\'s at Atocha Railway Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estaci%C3%B3n_de_Atocha); there is a plaque in their memory on the main façade of the main building in Puerta del Sol (see previous comment).\r\n\r\nLove.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(2953,3862,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','212.49.164.20','2010-11-24 13:53:07','2010-11-24 11:53:07','A great place to eat for a daily menu for less than 10 euros is http://www.gurumadrid.es/\r\n\r\nIf you want something more typically Spanish, try Spanish omelette with Brava Sauce (slightly spicy) http://www.lasbravas.com/donde_en.html and any of the Museo del Jamón for typical Spanish ham (http://www.museodeljamon.es/). All are cheap and yummy!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(3197,4001,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-12-10 18:36:55','2010-12-10 16:36:55','I can\'t help you with the Rakiya or the string of Christmas lights but I can make a music suggestion. Ask you dAd for a link to the Boomer Radio Christmas music he listens to.  \"Easy peasy\" (as someone close to me says.)\r\nLove,\r\nMoM',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(2959,3862,'Amanda','amandasteinhauer@gmail.com','','74.128.37.8','2010-11-24 22:36:43','2010-11-24 20:36:43','Lavapies is a great neighborhood to visit. There are great Indian restaurants all over the place there.\r\nI really like the bars Museo de la Radio and La Cabra en el Tejado on C/ Santa Ana. La Cabra\'s nice for a coffee during the day as well.  \r\nThe restaurant La Glorieta de Montera also has excellent food for good prices.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2961,3862,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-11-24 22:53:45','2010-11-24 20:53:45','@Amanda sounds great! Thanks for the suggestions.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2959,1),(3237,4015,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.126','2010-12-13 19:57:02','2010-12-13 17:57:02','It would\'ve been interesting to know what you were explaining at thet given moment. Now it\'s like you saw something weird in the cup and decided to drink straight from the pot while still wondering what the thing is and wether it will move on it\'s own :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2987,3864,'Vergil','vergilg@hotmail.com','','99.241.2.231','2010-11-27 13:30:04','2010-11-27 11:30:04','What - no picture of the boots?  Can\'t just hype them up like that and not post a pic!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(3236,4004,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.126','2010-12-13 19:51:24','2010-12-13 17:51:24','I\'m glad you had a nice time and enjoyed the band :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3819,4198,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-14 08:26:04','2011-01-14 06:26:04','@Katley I think that the list is far from comprehensive and a little bit pretentious but still interesting. It seems to reflect what interests there are in travel, who\'s going where and the kinds of dreams/fantasies people have currently about travel.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3817,1),(3820,4201,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-14 08:27:16','2011-01-14 06:27:16','@Whitney I think it would be great fun to have the support of another blogger on this project/adventure!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3812,1),(3821,4201,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-14 08:28:59','2011-01-14 06:28:59','@Apcho Great! I am going to need some reader support especially when it comes to recipes. Of course I\'ll document the whole thing--the good the bad and the ugly. And I think you\'re right, I really need to consider how many dishes I can reasonably make (and eat) in a month!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3804,1),(3295,4040,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-12-17 17:52:27','2010-12-17 15:52:27','Your dAd is a persuasive writer. I noticed this even the first time that you linked to his blog. \r\nHm, maybe I sould leave this comment on his own blog. But it feels awkward somehow.\r\nStrangely enough he rarely comments here.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(3296,4040,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2010-12-17 19:32:29','2010-12-17 17:32:29','Linked to your dAd\'s blog. Your birdhouses are great! I love the spoon and fork elements.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',0,0),(3282,4028,'Deia','deia@mail.bg','','85.130.35.96','2010-12-16 22:25:07','2010-12-16 20:25:07','Aww, you found my favorite place in Sofia :)\r\nCongratulations, and enjoy :P',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10','',0,0),(3280,3937,'simon','simonlitton@rocketmail.com','http://simonlitton.wordpress.com','94.109.11.96','2010-12-16 18:09:42','2010-12-16 16:09:42','I think that breakfast would cheer me up no matter what else was going on in my life at the time.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3038,3899,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2010-11-30 14:01:01','2010-11-30 12:01:01','Sounds really great! I wish you many adventurous trips next year. As to Spain next time you can hit Barcelona, Bilbao or the Spanish coast.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 GTB7.1','',0,0),(3554,1978,'Kenny','kenny2115@ymail.com','','94.3.89.206','2011-01-01 01:16:53','2010-12-31 23:16:53','I really like that magazine.\r\nI am in London at the moment. Do you know where i can get the magazine from by any chance? like online or any magazine stores in london?\r\n\r\nthank you and love your posts :P x',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; zh-TW; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3555,1978,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-01 03:18:43','2011-01-01 01:18:43','@Kenny Ach. I don\'t know. Sorry!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3554,1),(3279,3929,'simon','simonlitton@rocketmail.com','http://simonlitton.wordpress.com','94.109.11.96','2010-12-16 18:07:25','2010-12-16 16:07:25','\"when did we become so nuts about travel and security in the States?\"\r\nI\'d guess around September 12th, 2001.\r\nAnd yay for hidden cucumber!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3044,3913,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2010-11-30 16:43:44','2010-11-30 14:43:44','Did you know that Boise is the Basque capital of the West?  The people who owned our home on Washington St. before us employed Basque shepherds who used our address for Basque language publications sent from northern Spain. There is still a very large Basque presence in Boise, Basque community organizations and restaurants as well.  The Basque gave Boise one of its most pleasing aspects.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3065,3929,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-01 21:37:28','2010-12-01 19:37:28','@Andrey you make a good point but I ended up finding a flight that was less expensive than Wizz Air on Bulgaria Air.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3064,1),(3066,3929,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2010-12-01 22:35:55','2010-12-01 20:35:55','This is the best part of living in Europe. You don\'t have to spend a fortune to go to Italy, France, Greece or other exotic to Americans places :) \r\nI am going to the canary islands in 2 weeks, and only a few years ago I thought only rich people could afford that shit. It costs only 90 euro :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3590,4113,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2011-01-03 08:43:27','2011-01-03 06:43:27','Happy New 2011 Year!\r\n\r\nSorry to hear about the pneumonia,but...you will fight it quickly,I am pretty sure about that.\r\n\r\nWish you and your family all the best!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3593,3533,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.130','2011-01-03 12:07:48','2011-01-03 10:07:48','These are very good! I like the garbage shot and the ladies selling veggies. I never seem to be able to catch these kind of tale-telling shots. The last one looked so foreign to me and I caught myself thinking \'do I really live here?\'. Yes, I do. It just looks somehow different through the lense.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(3594,3517,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.130','2011-01-03 12:18:51','2011-01-03 10:18:51','LOL and ditto @ no.2, my worst enemy!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(3077,3929,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-12-02 12:32:03','2010-12-02 10:32:03','И аз обичам да летя с Bulgaria Air. И на мен ми харесват униформите им.\r\nСто пъти са за предпочитане в сравнение, например,  с Olympic, които освен че редовно правят закъснения от по 2 часа спрямо разписанието си, ами ти и предлагат в последния момент за по-удобно да летиш от Атина за София през Букурещ :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(3080,3929,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','212.49.164.20','2010-12-02 13:38:47','2010-12-02 11:38:47','Don\'t you just love how Bulgarians clap when the plane lands? Is it that they expect it NOT to land?\r\n\r\nGlad to be readin\' about Madrid, you know it snowed the day after your left. Now temperatures have become normal again, but still it looks pretty gloomy.\r\n\r\nTseluvki',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(3081,3833,'Jarrett Volper','Hintergardt99@hotmail.co.uk','http://daleschultz.info','95.143.192.39','2010-12-02 14:13:20','2010-12-02 12:13:20','Thank you so much, this was very interesting. I was actually born in Spain ( not telling you what year though!) but was moved around various parts of europe and lastly settled in Britain when I was 7. I dont remember much of the few years I was in spain, but the delicious smell of spanish food always seems to get me going or something. It\'s weird how I dont remember anything except the smells,isn\'t it! I actually found a whole website dedicated to <a href=\"http://www.spanishrecipe.net/food/beef/\" rel=\"nofollow\">spanish recipes</A>, which gave me great delight and thought I really should to share with your readers. Anyway, thank you again. I\'ll get my son to add your cast to my rss thing...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3082,3933,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2010-12-02 16:56:20','2010-12-02 14:56:20','When Thanksgiving comes late, December comes too soon.  By the time it happens again, several years have gone by.  After this has happened to you twice, you try to remember it, but still often forget.  The joys of a literal movable feast.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3083,3933,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.220','2010-12-02 17:56:17','2010-12-02 15:56:17','I\'m a bit late, but welcome back! I\'m glad you enjoyed your trip.\r\nDecember took me by surprise too. There were so many things I wanted to do in November and suddenly Christmas is three weeks away. It\'s like some spacetime anomaly ate half a month. Now there\'s so much to do and so little time to do it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(3097,3937,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','87.118.153.147','2010-12-03 12:37:10','2010-12-03 10:37:10','What\'s a churro? You might want to give a brief explanation or a Wikipedia link at least :). Although on the pictures it looks deep fried and I have not eaten any deep fried stuff for years. The hot chocolate looks delicious, though.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53','',0,0),(3611,4113,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-01-04 11:22:20','2011-01-04 09:22:20','Best wishes for the New Year from me too! Get well soon! What a relief to have your own mum around to look after you when you\'re sick.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(3334,4040,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','77.85.17.206','2010-12-19 02:52:25','2010-12-19 00:52:25','Btw, those birdhouses look great, especially the one that uses a bent California license plate for a roof. :-)',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',0,0),(3331,4040,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','77.85.17.206','2010-12-19 00:01:03','2010-12-18 22:01:03','I have more books than dishes and I don\'t have a liberal arts degree. Does this mean than I am totally wrong? :-)\r\n\r\nBtw, did you manage to read Cory Doctorow\'s Little Brother already? Please, share what you think about the book, if you read it.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63','',0,0),(3683,4132,'Sarah','sarah.f.howell@gmail.com','','24.255.121.178','2011-01-08 18:05:00','2011-01-08 16:05:00','What a great photo trip through your travels, Karolinka! :) Miss you! Have a safe trip back home to Sofia! Happy New Year and many new adventures to you, my love!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5','',0,0),(3145,3929,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-12-06 19:55:00','2010-12-06 17:55:00','I think the clapping when the plane lands is a European thing.  The Germans do it too.  I think it\'s a way of saying thank you to the pilot and the crew for a safe landing :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(3147,3971,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','128.193.8.92','2010-12-06 21:43:50','2010-12-06 19:43:50','What do you think made you classify this burrito as Bulgarian-style Mexican food? It sounds pretty close to the kind of burrito you would get at a chain place like Chipotle or Quedoba here in the states. What do you think the difference was?\r\nAlso, this makes me super happy for you. I know you love and miss Mexican food. In fact its the only kind of food I really hear you talking about missing!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3692,4174,'Jenny','Jnikol11@yahoo.com','','166.205.8.52','2011-01-08 22:53:36','2011-01-08 20:53:36','Beautiful pictures! If you don\'t mind sharing, what kind of camera do you use? The quality is amazing!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7','',0,0),(3150,3929,'eva','evapopov@hotmail.com','http://epowen.blogspot.com','24.248.97.150','2010-12-06 22:55:42','2010-12-06 20:55:42','I love the clapping at the end of a flight, I actually think it\'s a really cool thing to do!\r\n@Andreytcho...you can\'t hate all babies on planes, right?! Because I know I\'ve been seated next to/near many more unpleasant adults than I have babies, but I don\'t hate adults on planes ;)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(3156,3971,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2010-12-07 01:11:02','2010-12-06 23:11:02','I love the colors on the wall in that store.  The food just has to be good.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; Offi','',0,0),(3387,4055,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-23 12:40:53','2010-12-23 10:40:53','@Helen &amp; @Milen It\'s not the worst thing that could have happened to me. I\'m more or less happy and healthy and I\'ll be in the States in a few days. Now I have some unexpected time for myself and I am going to try to take advantage of it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3386,1),(3386,4055,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','87.118.153.147','2010-12-23 12:02:23','2010-12-23 10:02:23','Cheer up, Christmas in Sofia is not such a bad thing! Don\'t pay heed to the terrible rumors that Bulgarians are the gloomiest nation in the world, as these rumors are wrong! I understand how you feel, as Christmas is a family holiday and people are supposed to be with their family on this holiday.\r\n\r\nBTW, you\'ve got lucky with Skype. I have not been able to log into my Skype account since yesterday evening due to some major glitch with global Skype connectivity and Skype still appears to be having some major issues with user connectivity today worldwide.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53','',0,0),(3385,4055,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2010-12-23 11:29:42','2010-12-23 09:29:42','Аaa. Celebrate Christmas with Bulgarian friends! Enjoy tradional Bulgarian Christmas Eve dishes (with no meat)! Баница с късмети :)\r\nSure it won\'t compensate the fact that you want be with your family on Christmas but at least you would enjoy something different.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(3384,4055,'Lady','marian.of.amber@gmail.com','','78.142.42.106','2010-12-23 10:25:39','2010-12-23 08:25:39','I\'m sorry about your problems, but I thing you\'re kind of lucky anyway... You\'re at a place you can live normally, while waiting for your flight... All around Europe there are people waiting for days at the airports and sleeping there... :-(',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; bg; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3163,3929,'v','vassil100@gmail.com','','94.26.22.142','2010-12-07 15:19:29','2010-12-07 13:19:29','I have never seen germans clap on successful landing. It is more of a southern European thing - in Italy for example the people are clapping and cheering like crazy. In northern Europe you can see that very rarely and it is mostly southern Europeans who do that :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12','',3145,0),(3399,4055,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.215','2010-12-24 02:06:49','2010-12-24 00:06:49','Poor you. That sucks a great deal indeed. But your MoM is right, Christmas can be moved. Food, family, gifts... flip the calendar and you won\'t be able to tell the difference. So you will have a Christmas :) Cheers to your MoM and enjoy a couple of extra days of holiday here :)\r\nThese computer phone assistant (or whatever) are awful. Whoever thought such a thing would improve and speed up services must have been high.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3320,4048,'bendyourcircuit','glutathione@gmail.com','http://bendyourcircuit.wordpress.com','93.221.170.81','2010-12-18 18:08:59','2010-12-18 16:08:59','Mhm. <a href=\"http://windowtobulgaria.blogspot.com/2010/12/and-saddest-place-in-world-relative-to.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian asked the same question yesterday</a>. Measly paid jobs and chronic pessimism are just one part of the explanation. I think this may have something to do with how one excelled in life during Socialism. I\'m too young to know it first hand, but basically it all came down to having the right kind of background and the necessary connections. It was the kind of mentality that one excelled not because one was smart or capable, but because one was a party member and had friends or relatives in high places. This bred pessimism and lack of motivation, since one knew that whatever one did or wished for came only second to some other peoples\' wishes, who were obviously more equal than others. I have no idea how the statistical data was gathered and what people participated in the survey. Maybe the sample wasn\'t representative for Bulgaria\'s population and say only people between 30 and 50 had been questioned, so the answers turned out extremely negative. Who knows?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3321,3971,'Sofia\'s Taqueria','gorro_p@hotmail.com','','95.111.18.197','2010-12-18 19:14:38','2010-12-18 17:14:38','Hi Karolinka,\r\nWe are glad to hear that you guys like our shop. We spent some time in the United states and we fell in love with the Tex-mex food. After some years of considering the idea to make the Taqueria in Sofia, and preparation of making it, it\'s finally a fact. We are very happy that you (sofia\'s americans :)))) like what we\'ve done. This asures us that we do it right. But it\'s very difficult for us to convince the bulgarians that this food is every day food. They look at it as something strange and exotic, and prefer to go to traditional BG restaurants or duner shops to have their everyday\'s lunch. Anyway we will keep to do our best for you, our customers. We have Facebook profile (it is in bulgarian for now but we will fix this very soon):  \r\n\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Taqueria/161181247236583\r\n\r\nWe\'ll be glad to see you and your friends there :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; GTB6.6)','',0,0),(3323,3971,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-18 20:06:51','2010-12-18 18:06:51','@Sofia’s Taqueria your love of tex-mex really shows! And I for one am very happy to have the shop in Sofia. If I worked downtown, I\'d regularly have a burrito for lunch. Now I guess I\'ve got to make sure to try the tacos!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3321,1),(3328,3971,'Sofia\'s Taqueria','gorro_p@hotmail.com','','95.111.18.197','2010-12-18 21:32:19','2010-12-18 19:32:19',':)\r\nWe always prefer personal contact with the customer, but you can  use BG Menu to order your favorit food\r\n \r\nhttp://www.bgmenu.com/MenuByRestaurant.aspx?siteContractorID=679&amp;contractorID=199&amp;categoryName=Sandwiches',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; GTB6.6)','',3323,0),(3622,4132,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2011-01-05 02:50:03','2011-01-05 00:50:03','Love that picture of the Eiffel Tower. taking it diagonally emphasizes the height. Clever.  I would never have thought to do that.  And really, there must be some place you haven\'t gone yet!  :-)  Switzerland, maybe.  It reminds me a lot of the Sawtooths in Idaho but with quainter homes and a lot more high pasture cows. And no salmon. It really is a lovely place, very different from Germany and most other European countries.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3673,4132,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2011-01-08 05:58:59','2011-01-08 03:58:59','Ruth, when I went to Paris many years I took a diagonal picture of the Eiffel Tower.   The reason for that was my camera took those small square size prints and it was the only way I could fit it into the picture!  \r\n\r\nThat is why I love digital cameras!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',3622,0),(3395,3578,'Isabella','isabelitah@me.com','','174.48.158.110','2010-12-23 19:10:20','2010-12-23 17:10:20','Hello Carolyn,\r\nI came across your blog by accident and have really enjoyed reading about your expat life.  I was wondering if you could give me some advice as I am considering taking a job as an expat teacher in Sofia.  I have been an expat teacher working in South America for 6 years and thought it was time for a change.  I had never thought about living in Eastern Europe so the whole idea is rather interesting.  What\'s life for a single American woman like in Bulgaria?  What is the weather like- especially winter?  How are the living expenses like?  \r\nI appreciate any answers or extra information you can give me.\r\nHappy Holidays,\r\nIsabella',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3396,3578,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-23 21:04:25','2010-12-23 19:04:25','@Isabella Sure I\'d be happy to answer your questions. They are pretty go so I\'ll write a whole post for you tomorrow!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3395,1),(3695,4174,'Stan','st.ganin@gmail.com','','78.142.58.87','2011-01-09 00:01:53','2011-01-08 22:01:53','According to the metadata it\'s a Canon EOS 450D. Btw these pictures definitely put Walla Walla on my \"to ride my bicycle there someday\" places. It looks awesome.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.628.0 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(3419,4060,'Aunt Jane','jlaaker@centurytel.net','','207.118.126.9','2010-12-24 23:08:19','2010-12-24 21:08:19','We are looking forward to seeing you.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; FunWebProducts; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; im_en_0002)','',0,0),(3426,4060,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2010-12-25 07:50:16','2010-12-25 05:50:16','It is finally Christmas in the Eastern time zone, so we wish you a Merry Christmas!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3432,4060,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-25 10:52:46','2010-12-25 08:52:46','@Ruth Thanks so much. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3426,1),(3433,4060,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2010-12-25 10:54:17','2010-12-25 08:54:17','@Bobby Thanks so much. I was lucky. Santa did find me here in Sofia and now I am waiting for him to come and see me again on the 29th/30th of December in Walla Walla as well!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3421,1),(3439,4060,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2010-12-25 18:03:12','2010-12-25 16:03:12','I knew Santa could find you.  That\'s because I\'m reading a book titled - The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus by Tim Slover. It is a young readers book and cleverly explains how Santa came to be and how Santa does all those marvelous things on Christmas Eve.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3721,4174,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-10 04:59:01','2011-01-10 02:59:01','@Stan You\'re exactly right--it\'s a Canon EOS 450D. Pretty sneaky to check out the metadata! and @Jenny thanks for comment!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3695,1),(3443,4068,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2010-12-25 21:42:15','2010-12-25 19:42:15','Merry Christmas to you.  BTW love your Balkan dance costume.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(3944,4222,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-01-18 17:51:29','2011-01-18 15:51:29','I don\'t like these generalizations - \"men\" &amp; \"wemen\". It is so idividual and different depending on a lot of things such as family status, working time, home equipment. Different people, different habits. Both me and my boyfriend cook and its because we love cooking and eating, we love to eat fresh or home made food and the culinary as a whole. The difference in our case is that I\'m more likely to be the traditional one and he likes to experiment with exotic spices or recepies from around the world. We cook four or five times a week altogether and the rest of the days we eat outside. Even so if I\'m not in the mood or I\'m just tired or lazy I won\'t cook. Or if I was living by myself I would never cook so often because the most important thing is sharing what you cook with someone special and even try harder to make it more delicious and arrange it better. You should also feel the pleasure of preparing your own food and not find cooking boring or annoying.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(3788,4198,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com','71.192.135.187','2011-01-13 05:33:59','2011-01-13 03:33:59','There are some fascinating places on this list, unfortunately I haven\'t seen most of them.  I have been along the Danube from Regensburg to Vienna, the scenery is absolutely gorgeous!\r\nI would have liked to have visited Dresden, unfortunately during my stay in Germany it was in the DDR; my husband was in security in the Air Force, and it would have been difficult if not impossible to go there.  Same with Budapest, my best friend was there many years ago, from her pictures it looks fantastic, especially at night.\r\nOn the way to Antwerp, there was car trouble, so I never made it. Didn\'t get to Milan either.\r\nNow I have itchy feet :) Hopefully I\'ll get to travel some more in this lifetime.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(3942,4219,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-01-18 16:03:52','2011-01-18 14:03:52','This reminded me once again of a funny joke about Bulgarian and mice :) \r\nTwo Bulgarians went to England to work but they didn’t know much English. So they rented an apartment and the landlord told them if they have any worries to give him a call. One day they saw a mouse in their apartment. The one who knew 5 English words more than the other decided to call the landlord:\r\n- Hello. Me Georgi.\r\n- Hi, Georgi, how are you?\r\n- Me Georgi, you know?\r\n- Yeah yeah, I know.\r\n- And Tom &amp; Jerry, you know?\r\n- Mmm… Yes, I know.\r\n- Well, Jerry is here!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(5063,4317,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.56','2011-02-21 22:53:43','2011-02-21 20:53:43','Carolyn,\r\nI\'ve got not very pleasant experience travelling with the train to Bucharest. Yes, it was in December 2006, so many things must have changed in the meantine for the better.\r\n\r\nhttp://patepis.com/?p=192 - this is the story of my travel there. \r\n\r\nSome advice from me:\r\n- Try to use the Romanian train from/to Sofia, not the Bulgarian one\r\n- A better/cheaper option is the bus to Ruse and then the bus to Bucharest. When I travelled, the train spent totally 2 hours waiting at the border.\r\n\r\nPlease, check with someone that has travelled soon. My information is 4 years old.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(3817,4198,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com','71.192.135.187','2011-01-14 04:58:53','2011-01-14 02:58:53','I would have liked to see Trier, Germany on this list.  It\'s a beautiful old, Roman city.  When I was there it wasn\'t popular with Americans.  My favorite places in Europe were off the American tourist radar :), at least when I was living there.  \r\nIn the States, one of the most beautiful places to visit is the Provincetown Dunes at sunset, near the end of Cape Cod.  \r\nEl Yunque, a rain forest in Puerto Rico, should have also been on the list.\r\nThe New York Times list, in some ways, is quite biased.  They missed out on some good stuff.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',3790,0),(3939,4222,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-18 14:17:06','2011-01-18 12:17:06','As a friend of mine says: You need to really love eating in order to learn cooking. In her family it is her husband that usually cooks. Because he loves eating :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(3815,4201,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-14 03:15:13','2011-01-14 01:15:13','OK, I just watched an episode from the British show Come Dine With Me and I\'m wondering if that idea might be to your liking. The concept is that 4-5 strangers(or celebrities) gather each evening attending each others dinner party. The host prepares the dishes and entertain his/hers guests which then score the host in secret. By the end of the week the person with the most points wins a prise(in the celebrity edition the price is for the persons prefered charity). \r\nSo if you find 3 more people you can have a dinner party each, one party per week for the four weeks of February. This way you have four partys to look forward to, and a whole week to prepare for your bulgarian themed evening. :)\r\nCouse 28 dishes for one month sure sounds a lot.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3813,4201,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2011-01-14 02:25:06','2011-01-14 00:25:06','EDIT: On second thought, 28 dishes is A LOT. I may just try 5-6. If you can do 28 you are a rock star!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',0,0),(3812,4201,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2011-01-14 02:23:52','2011-01-14 00:23:52','Great idea! I have also been working on mastering some Bulgarian dishes. I am a pro at shopska salata, but would love to advance to mousakka, bob chorba,  patatnik, and monastery gyuvetch (among many more). I HATE feta, sirene, etc (most cheeses really), so many Bulgarian dishes are hard for me. \r\n\r\nMy fiance\'s mom is a fantastic cook, so I better get cracking learning some BG dishes so I can keep him fed - or better yet, he can learn and keep me fed!\r\n\r\nI may just have to steal this idea/challenge from you and work on mastering a few Bulgarian dishes this month as well. Hope you don\'t mind.\r\n\r\nAs always, fantastic post Miss K!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',0,0),(3936,4211,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-18 12:50:31','2011-01-18 10:50:31','I like this project better than the February 2010 project. I`m not a saver, I`m an eater :) I`d be glad to share some Bulgarian cooking blogs (in English), just give me your email so it wont look like an ad :)\r\nI bet you`ll be making lots of yogurt and sirene meals this month, i hear they are your favorite :) Have you tried sirene baked with honey and thymus? It`s not too traditional but in most places they serve it in clay plates so it counts :)\r\nBTW Apcho`s idea is good but if you are going to cook Bulgarian style, you need one soup/starter + 1 main dish + 1 desert for every lunch/dinner.\r\nWhatever you choose, I wish you lots of luck!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3937,4222,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-01-18 12:52:21','2011-01-18 10:52:21','The situation in my family is pretty much the same as yours. My mom cooked every day, my dad cooked on special occasions only. Now that they live alone, they share the duty :) almost equally (and they really don\'t cook so often - once or twice a week maybe).\r\n\r\nAs for me... I really wasn\'t interested :) There was always someone to cook for me and I (maybe subconsciously) wanted to postpone this drudgery as long as I can. Then, I moved out with my boyfriend. He\'s an ex-cook, and his current job gives him enough spare time to cook every other week. But then, there were the weeks when he couldn\'t cook and I still wanted a tasty, warm, cooked dinner. So, I started learning. And I got interested. And (according to my boyfriend) I\'m getting really good at it.\r\n\r\nWhen I think about it... I think all of my girl friends learned to cook after they moved out. And almost all the boys I know knew how to cook a meal or two even in their early teens.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3805,4201,'Deb','dlsolum@aol.com','','216.186.60.201','2011-01-14 00:12:21','2011-01-13 22:12:21','Maybe one dish for every two days and a 3 or 4 course dinner to celebrate at the end of the month. That way you would have time to plan, shop, learn, cook, perfect and present. You would also have to learn all parts of the meal from appetizer to dessert! You would be a very accomplished chef at the end of the month. Bon appetit!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.3)','',0,0),(3935,4219,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.68','2011-01-18 12:47:56','2011-01-18 10:47:56','This may be weird, but I would actually like to have a small rat for a pet. Like a hamster :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3933,4219,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2011-01-18 11:00:19','2011-01-18 09:00:19','The rats are quite tough. I had a similar problem once but with a cage trap. Finally I drowned the thing in a bucket but it wasn\'t easy at all.\r\n\r\nThat\'s why my grandmother always has reserves of potassium cyanide. I haven\'t asked where she gets it from, I suppose that it\'s illegal for retail sale...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3931,4219,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-18 10:15:26','2011-01-18 08:15:26','do not worry! \r\nI just read about it - it was not as if I was actually there.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',3924,0),(3546,4048,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2010-12-31 18:26:02','2010-12-31 16:26:02','@Inga Right?! Bulgaria is a strangely wonderful place. Thanks so much for your comment! Happy New Year to you too!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3516,1),(3547,4086,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2010-12-31 18:30:44','2010-12-31 16:30:44','@Ruth. Santa brought them to me in Sofia. I found them at a great little shop in downtown Sofia. Everything is \"green.\"',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3519,1),(3548,4086,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2010-12-31 18:31:14','2010-12-31 16:31:14','@Melly I am glad to have made it too. I *must* call you soon.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3523,1),(3549,4086,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2010-12-31 18:32:46','2010-12-31 16:32:46','@Elena don\'t worry I made it. I had a case of jet-lag and then the 24-hour or so flu.  Now I am feeling back to normal!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3525,1),(3926,4216,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-18 06:28:26','2011-01-18 04:28:26','@Apcho It\'s an interesting problem that you point out--it seems like to have a community really engaged in cooking you need the interest, passion, time, money and energy to do make a claim about food and share this point of view.  This said, you seem to know a lot about cooking. Who do you think are the best chefs in Sofia and where are they working?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3896,1),(3924,4219,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-18 06:19:36','2011-01-18 04:19:36','@helen sorry. Bad things do happen in my life. And once I started writing the whole story just sort of popped out!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3908,1),(3925,4219,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-18 06:20:37','2011-01-18 04:20:37','@Inga It\'s definitely my mantra. I was thinking recently if it would be any different if I was driving but I figured it would be exactly the same--if not worse.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3906,1),(3617,4113,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-04 20:58:40','2011-01-04 18:58:40','@Ivet Thanks so much. I\'m looking forward to getting better!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3611,1),(3618,4132,'Nick (Macheesmo)','nick@macheesmo.com','http://www.macheesmo.com','208.73.109.10','2011-01-04 22:03:35','2011-01-04 20:03:35','WOW!  Awesome photos.  Man you really get around!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.0 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3619,4132,'Jim','jfemigh@aol.com','','99.122.46.245','2011-01-04 22:17:03','2011-01-04 20:17:03','Great summary.  I am sure your MoM and dAd will be disappointed that your forgot your trip to the States this summer.  Uncle Hicks',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; NET_mmhpset)','',0,0),(4440,3937,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2011-02-03 10:18:17','2011-02-03 08:18:17','Hey, where did you find churros in Sofia???? Im Spanish living in BG and I would loooove to have churros with chocolate one day!! Is there any spanish cafe around? Please please, let me know!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3635,3276,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-05 19:16:32','2011-01-05 17:16:32','@Inga What a lovely sad story. If/when we have toilet paper at school, ours is still the brown kind so I know exactly what you\'re talking about.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3628,1),(3636,4132,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-05 19:19:17','2011-01-05 17:19:17','@Inga If you can, you definitely have to go to Montenegro.  It is beautiful, beautiful.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3627,1),(3637,4132,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-05 19:24:58','2011-01-05 17:24:58','@Robyn It was kind of hot though and we didn\'t exactly know where we were going. Good thing I was able to speak Bulgarian and make myself understood in Macedonia.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3626,1),(3657,3937,'Polley','ppantche@mail.usf.edu','http://thedaisyprince.tumblr.com/','131.247.50.42','2011-01-06 17:49:51','2011-01-06 15:49:51','Those Churros look amazing!\r\nI also really enjoy your blog! I am the opposite from you, Bulgarian living in the U.S. (although I am actually an American citizen because I\'ve been here since age 10). Really neat to see your take on the culture :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3658,3937,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-06 18:24:42','2011-01-06 16:24:42','@Polley Thanks so much! It\'s funny after living in Bulgaria for three years, American culture is looking stranger and stranger as well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3657,1),(4382,4265,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-02 00:34:46','2011-02-01 22:34:46','Well, you\'ve got mail :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4332,0),(4383,4265,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-02 00:38:40','2011-02-01 22:38:40','Hehe, I know it\'s spelled a bit differently, but I was trying to make it easier for Carolyn to get the right pronunciation :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4331,0),(3908,4219,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-01-17 22:16:07','2011-01-17 20:16:07','That\'s the most horrible story I\'ve read here.\r\nI\'ve only seen a rat once - it was in Borovo near the underground crossing for a big crossroad and luckily I saw it through the window of the car in which I was sitting.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(3724,3581,'Dena','denadep@yahoo.com','','193.138.67.40','2011-01-10 10:33:24','2011-01-10 08:33:24','Happy new year Karolinka, \r\nI studied at ACS and than later at Whitman College!!! I\'m a fan of the Creamery and i\'ve talked with your father. I\'m now back in Sofia for a year and interning in bTV. I have an idea for a story i want to ask/share with you, could you give me your e-mail and i can tell you more about it. \r\nmissing walla walla like crazy, \r\ndena',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)','',0,0),(3725,4182,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','92.247.223.191','2011-01-10 10:47:28','2011-01-10 08:47:28','Welcome back!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3726,4182,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-10 10:54:14','2011-01-10 08:54:14','On the positive side you actually had all these extra hours to do all that. :) You unpacked your suitcase, you read all unread e-mails, google reader items and twitter statuses and so now you are off for a great start of the week. \r\nOnly I suspect you may feel a little bit under the weather during the day.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(4384,4269,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-02 00:51:08','2011-02-01 22:51:08','For me, up until a few years ago, sunflower oil was the only oil we used. I don\'t know what to tell you about the brand, I know only both my mom and grandma buy Папас. \r\nWhen buying a type of food for the first time, I usually go for whichever I\'ve heard most about from my friends or family. then I consider the price - I don\'t take the cheapest nor the most expensive. If the difference is not that great, I just pick one and take it, hoping for the best. Whatever it is, it\'s not worth it spending more than several seconds deciding.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3906,4219,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.83.94.139','2011-01-17 21:58:05','2011-01-17 19:58:05','Lol at \'please don’t hit me\' mantra! I told my flatmates today that we risk our lifes every single morning while crossing one busy street to work. And it\'s true... I probably feel as unwelcome on the pedestrian crossing as that rat was in your house :)\r\nGreat story!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3731,4182,'Jim','jfemigh@aol.com','','69.220.184.198','2011-01-10 17:17:54','2011-01-10 15:17:54','There is nothing better than a Walla Walla Maple Bar!!  Uncle Hicks',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; NET_mmhpset)','',0,0),(3732,4182,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-10 17:48:00','2011-01-10 15:48:00','Glad to hear of your safe return. :)\r\nAnd there are a few new places for trying some delicious foods waiting for you I think. ;)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3733,4182,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-10 17:55:44','2011-01-10 15:55:44','@Apcho Thanks! So what places do you think that I should check out in the new year? It\'s hardly fair to leave a cryptic message about new places like this on my blog. I need details!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3732,1),(3734,4182,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.224','2011-01-10 18:48:22','2011-01-10 16:48:22','Hey, welcome back! :) And I\'m a bit late, but happy revolution around the Sun!\r\nThanks for the pictures and updates in the meantime, I\'m happy you had a great Christmas despite the delay and the black belt pneumonia. \r\nI\'m curious - what possible reason could there be for a \"no cash\" rule? The cash register broke? Selective germophobia?:P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3737,4182,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-10 20:11:23','2011-01-10 18:11:23','For starters I get the impression you like sweets so I suggest you check out Lime. It\'s a fairly new place on Graf Ignatiev street number 40 opposite the street market and the church. It\'s a small place, where smoking is prohibited. The prices are more than reasonable. I tried the yoguhrt and lime cake which was divine and a big piece was only 3.30 leva! The tea was incredible and with a fun twist at least for me(I won\'t spoil the surprise), and they have more cakes, sandwiches and drinks to try. And the take-away is 15% cheaper than consumption on site which is something common in Greece for example, but not a practice in Bulgaria. \r\nI recommend the place. :) I\'ll be glad to hear your reviews about it. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10','',3733,0),(5887,4572,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.43','2011-03-22 16:00:49','2011-03-22 14:00:49','You are not quite right. For me and for the people around me it\'s just the same case - we phone and accept phone calls when there is no other option. This is valid even for skype calls. Only my parents don\'t check if it\'s ok to call on skype.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.151 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(3740,4182,'dAd','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-10 20:54:01','2011-01-10 18:54:01','I think that you forgot to mention that I have a wonderful post on my blog about your new friends the Scottish Highland Cattle.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5474,4408,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2011-03-06 13:24:56','2011-03-06 11:24:56','I live in Sofia and many people think the 1st of March is my name day (which is not). \r\nBut I love this tradition, I think it\'s cute :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3897,4216,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.68','2011-01-17 19:20:27','2011-01-17 17:20:27','I don\'t know the definition of cooking, but I\'ll try to come up with something. Let\'s see... Something is cooked when:\r\n1. It\'s been heated with or without water or fat to a degree where it changes its colour, texture or smell.\r\n2. The ingredients have come from at least two different points in the shop.\r\n3. At least half of the dish has been manipulated (cut, crushed, mashed, shaped, broken etc) by you with or wihout utensils prior to the heating. \r\n\r\nI like cooking and I cook whenever I feel like it. And it\'s kind of on and off. For example All I\'ve made since Christmas is a cake and a big pot of spaghetti and meat. \r\n\r\nThat \"no one cooks anymore\" is kind of an overstatement. Yes, most people are too immersed in the need to work and don\'t finde enough joy in cooking to do it in their free time. And many think \"Why bother slaving over the fire like a caveman, when I can buy it from the store - a finished, better and tastier product\"? (That last one has about as much merit as geocentrism.) However, even excluding retired folks, there are still many people whose jobs (or lack thereof) leave them with enough spare time to cook and I\'m pretty sure most of them will. It\'s a nice hobby. It\'s healthier. It\'s usually cheaper. For boys there\'s also the added benefit of having one more thing to impress girls with. You know, I\'ve always thought in general boys make better chefs. I think we\'re more inclined to say \"Yeah, I know that\'s not how the recipe goes, but let\'s see what will happen.\"\r\n\r\nAnyway, viva la cooking! Because when you throw the cookbook away and start relying on microwave-ready fork-included meals, your available dishes drop from a few hundred to a few dozen. At most.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3760,4193,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-01-11 18:30:13','2011-01-11 16:30:13','It\'s time to meet up with more locals to make fun of you, without proper humiliation you would never try hard enough :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3762,4193,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-01-11 19:29:03','2011-01-11 17:29:03','Well then, ask your teacher to give you tests and to grade them - if this is what motivates you.\r\n\r\nI had a similar problem with Russian in High School - words kept coming in in English when I tried to speak Russian. Nowadays I can only understand the language written or spoken but I am not able to talk in it myself.\r\n\r\nOk, off  to your brownies recipe now - I plan to make some this evening.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(3896,4216,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-17 16:40:39','2011-01-17 14:40:39','I think part of the problem with bulgarians and cooking is the lack of culinary(among other) culture. USA had Julia Child, UK had Fanny Cradock and now has Delia Smith. Not to mention all the other english, american, australian, french and so on chefs right now like Nigella  Lawson, Heston Blumenthal, Hubert Keller, Anthony Bourdain, Rocco DiSpirito, Eric Ripert, Michelle Bernstein, Paula Deen and so many more each of wich has a unique style and brings something different to the table. Literary. :) \r\nHere in Bulgaria we have only Ivan Zvezdev and Uti Buchvarov as the most popular names and anyone interested in culinary knows those two aren\'t any good. :D We have no Top chef or Ready Steady Cook, no Iron chef no Food network. \r\nThe problem is almost no one here in Bulgaria is interested in these things. Molecular gastronomy, cooking with liquid nitrogen, trends, history and so on of cooking is of no interest to anyone. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3764,4193,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.83.94.139','2011-01-11 20:12:06','2011-01-11 18:12:06','The only way to learn a new language is to get yourself into situations where you simply HAVE to use it and there is no other option. That was the only thing that worked for me with Finnish. I got a job where nobody spoke (or would speak) English (a lot of elderly ladies). Also reading magazines helped. \r\nI personally found it very demotivating to speak bad Finnish with people who spoke good English. \r\nGood luck with your Bulgarian!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3765,4193,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.83.94.139','2011-01-11 20:13:11','2011-01-11 18:13:11','Learning a language must be a pleasant experience to succeed you know. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3760,0),(3894,4216,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-01-17 15:40:05','2011-01-17 13:40:05','I agree that it\'s a bit tricky to define what counts as cooking in general. However, if you focus on the Bulgarian Dish challenge, it gets easier, I think. Шопска salad counts for a dish (but you know how to make that one already). Making баница with store-bought кори counts, but baking store-bought frozen баница doesn\'t. And миш-маш definitely counts, even tough it\'s only peppers, tomatoes, eggs and cheese fried together :)\r\n\r\nAnd about Bulgarian girls not cooking - so, so true. I only started recently, after I moved in with my boyfriend. I now try to cook enough food so that we have something cooked for dinner every day, but this basically means two-three dishes a week and the occasional meal of salami, cheese and salads, bought from the store, when I\'m too lazy to get in the kitchen :)\r\n\r\nSo have you decided what you will cook in February?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5882,4572,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-03-22 09:26:22','2011-03-22 07:26:22','I havent thought about it this way before but yeah, you have a point! My phone is an old Nokia (7 years? oh my..) that still works perfectly and I am actually using it quite a bit. I work with the newest phones and my colleagues cannot understand it how in the world I can put up wih my little \'antique\', hehe. But all I need is to be able to call and text. And check the time. And be woken up in the morning.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(3768,4193,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','84.238.226.41','2011-01-11 22:09:34','2011-01-11 20:09:34','Hi from me,\r\n\r\nI definitely support Andreytcho\'s idea. Anyway I keep promise myself that I will try to study new words from your blog posts, so that I can improve my English, but what happens is that I check my unknown words in the dictionary,remember them for a while and then they disappeared from active dictionary.What should I do...be more strenuous perhaps.At least I am trying,as you are:)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(3785,4198,'Марин','mguergov@yahoo.com','','212.43.39.152','2011-01-12 23:09:26','2011-01-12 21:09:26','I have also 5/41: London, Thessaloniki, Danube, Dresden (during DDR time), Budapest.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61','',0,0),(4394,4273,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-02-02 11:07:55','2011-02-02 09:07:55','I love thick lentil soup and your looks pretty good. I\'d rather skip the potato, though... And did you add vinegar and crushed garlic to the soup before eating it? Together with the chubritsa, I think these are the spices that make the lentil soup really Bulgarian :)\r\n\r\nDid you enjoy cooking your first meal for the challenge?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3891,4216,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-17 14:33:11','2011-01-17 12:33:11','It\'s somewhat true. It\'s more likely to meet a bulgarian boy who knows how to cook than a bulgarian girl with that knowledge in my opinion. Don\'t know why, maybe boys prefer to have a set of skills, just in case: cooking, cleaning, ironing, sewing... \r\nI, a boy, learned and knew how to cook in my early teens. My sister, who is married in the states, started cooking for her husband there sometimes just two years ago in her early 20\'s. And she doesn\'t have any knowledge of how to cook bulgarian dishes so I have to sit and explain to her on Skype. :)\r\nI love to cook. But as you know, living alone and cooking dishes, not just quick meals, don\'t go too well together. You have to eat the leftovers and sometimes you\'re just not up for it. Still I bake cakes quite often, and I try to invite friends for a meal so I can cook as much as I like. :)\r\nBaking is easier - frozen pizza in the oven is not baking, homemade pizza in the oven is baking. :) But it\'s hard to define what cooking is and what cooking is not. All in all everything you prepare might be considered cooking(if you actually cook any of the ingredients) - after all even to stir fry some veggies you still need a set of skills which you have and use whithout thinking. So using your set of basic knowledge and skills is still cooking. The best way to separate things is to think of levels: level 0 - you know how to switch the cooker on; level 1 - you know how not to set things on fire; level 2 - you know how not to burn things, how not to under or overcook things; \r\nAnd so on.\r\nP.S: sorry for my long posts, I don\'t know how to write short posts. :D',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(4397,4273,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-02-02 13:00:24','2011-02-02 11:00:24','So more or less - but without the potatoes and with garlic cloves (you toss them in at the very end). Then you add vinegar when you serve it (apple vinegar). Even if it is more like stew it is perfectly acceptable and Bulgarian. But no potatoes :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(5502,4434,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-03-07 14:06:02','2011-03-07 12:06:02','Welcome back! \r\nEating your way through the city is not gross when it includes strawberries and (ice) cream on waffles. I don\'t know about the mayo on the fries, though - I wouldn\'t do that.\r\n\r\nAnd if you\'re curious - in Bulgarian \"Belgian waffles\" are \"гофрети\" (sg. гофрета). And if you see someone selling \"Белгийски вафли\", this means that whoever decided to start this little business didn\'t know we were eating these long before he thought about it :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',0,0),(4400,4273,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-02 14:13:47','2011-02-02 12:13:47','So what if it\'s a bit stewy and has something extra, if it tastes OK, then well done! :) And improvisation in cooking is not a bad thing. If it weren\'t for it, we\'d still be eating  mammoth on a stick :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5503,4434,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-03-07 14:11:03','2011-03-07 12:11:03','And sorry about the snow here. Global warming and all that. I think it\'s makig up for the early sunny days we had before that. I\'m even kind of annoyed it doesn\'t snow properly, covering us all in a thick blanket, rather tan being a sissy and stretching it out over several days, so it melts and all we get is muddy slush.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',5502,0),(3804,4201,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-13 23:33:49','2011-01-13 21:33:49','Have you seen \"Julie &amp; Julia\"? Great movie, I liked it a lot. \r\nSo yes, I think your idea is great. :) You can count on us, your readers, for some ideas and even recepies. I think everyone will be glad to help you with your project. And it will be great if you document the whole thing. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3823,4201,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-14 08:29:49','2011-01-14 06:29:49','@Deb this is a great idea. I\'ve got a lot to think about over the next few days as I embark on this new project.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3805,1),(3874,4205,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.226.6','2011-01-16 10:39:24','2011-01-16 08:39:24','I do. And freezing it is a great idea, although I am pretty sure I could devour it all myself. I simply adore it (but I\'m scared mine won\'t turn out as well as my fiance\'s moms!).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',3838,0),(3826,4201,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-14 10:46:29','2011-01-14 08:46:29','Great idea! I like it better than the one you had last year. \r\nI suggest you start with banitsa (I\'ve read the other post too). It\'s really easy - peasy but you have to make it with Bulgarian ingredients. First and most important - buy кори за баница. And then you need eggs and cheese and some sunflower oil. I personally prefer to make it with soda water. It\'s more crispy and thinner that way. \r\nOK, good luck!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(3873,4211,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.226.6','2011-01-16 10:37:18','2011-01-16 08:37:18','I am most definitely joining you, and will be posting along on my own blog. If you\'d like to make it a group thing, maybe you could select 15 specific dishes and we could all do them and comment on our own results. Just a thought. \r\n\r\nMost of Apcho\'s suggestions seem great, but I would also add stuffed peppers. \r\n\r\nI\'m pretty excited for this!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(6610,4764,'Tanya','tanya.stan@gmail.com','http://frozzen.net','78.83.100.194','2011-04-22 22:07:42','2011-04-22 20:07:42','Hi, Carolyn! \r\nBefore you buy a smartphone, be prepared that you\'ll have to charge it every day or every other day depending on Internet use. Also, you\'ll get to make substantial use of app markets to download some useful apps and make the most of your smartphone. And last but not least, you\'ll need once in a while to make updates of the software, which is not smth terribly intimidating. Better test one, but I think smartphones are just for everyone :)\r\n\r\nAs for an M-tel plan, they have some pretty good offers for subscribers for unlimited access to their 2G/3G network (only limited in speed), which, however, don\'t apply for pay-as-you-go. Indeed I think you better buy a phone in the US, but should you use it in Bulgaria, I think you\'ll have to decode it, which compromises its warranty. Good luck!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(4952,4314,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.170','2011-02-17 15:01:19','2011-02-17 13:01:19','In Louisville an unseasonable 74 expected today.  We often have snow this time of year.  I actually prefer the snow to be in February and the 74 to be in April. Wanna switch weather today?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(3830,4201,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-01-14 12:11:13','2011-01-14 10:11:13','We can turn one of our lessons into a cooking lesson if you want. I can teach you how to make a Bulgarian dish or even several dishes. And to make it even more useful and challenging we are going to speak only in Bulgarian :) plus listen to Bulgarian music during the whole thing to make it even more inspiring ... then eat the results together with a proper amount of rakia or wine. What do you think?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(3831,4201,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-01-14 12:44:46','2011-01-14 10:44:46','Yay, this is a great idea and a project Im sure many people would find very interesting to follow! Maybe 10 dishes is enough? Otherwise you would get stuck with a lot of dinner leftovers :)\r\n\r\nOh, Shkembe chorba would be quite a challenge, I think! I am yet do dare and try some..',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(3832,4205,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','87.118.153.147','2011-01-14 13:33:54','2011-01-14 11:33:54','It\'s Shopska salad, not Skopska salad. The name comes from the people leaving in Sofia plains, who are called Shopi. BTW, a Shopska salad is not a true Shopska salad without fresh or roasted red peppers and ground sirene (white cheese). Feta cheese is not a good replacement for Bulgarian sirene, as it is not hard enough to grind.\r\nI personally prefer the version with  roasted peppers and I don\'t put onions in the salad, as I don\'t like onions much. However, it could be interesting to try it with the sweet Walla Walla onions you wrote about earlier.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53','',0,0),(3834,4205,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-14 16:44:13','2011-01-14 14:44:13','Next time take ready-made phylo dough from Bulgaria. It\'s called \"kori za banitsa\" and solves the problem that usually in recipes and howto videos the part with the dough is magic.\r\nMilene, I don\'t know what kind of feta you\'ve had, but it\'s not soft. At least in Germany and the Netherlands feta is not soft, and it\'s very similar to our sirene.\r\nAnd definitely what you want to do with the cheese is not \"grind\" but either \"crumble\" or \"grate\". Grinding would imply that it\'s very hard.\r\n\r\nYou can make tarator, mish-mash (fry some onions, add 3-4 sliced red peppers and continue frying, after peppers are fried add 400-500g. of canned tomates and boil for some time until it gets thick, add 250g. of crumbled white cheese and 3 eggs, stir well), fried kyufteta (mix 500g of minced pork and beef(50/50 or 60/40), one egg, one finely cut middle-sized onion, one slice of bread soaked with water, some black pepper and some salt, then make kyufte shapes out of this and fry in a pan), or even sauerkraut with pork, for which I will not offer a recipe because I\'ve cooked it once with the help of black magic and a Polish recipe for a similar but different meal. :D',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',0,0),(3836,4205,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','87.118.153.147','2011-01-14 18:01:03','2011-01-14 16:01:03','TAfricanski, you are right, the correct English verb for use with sirene would be grate, not grind. Poor choice of words on my part. However, the feta that is sold in Bulgaria is mostly some kind of Danish feta, which is too soft for grating. I guess, you could crumble it though. :)',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53','',3834,0),(3837,4205,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2011-01-14 18:55:47','2011-01-14 16:55:47','I think it was just a typo. She spelled it right on her last post... Easy mistake!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',3832,0),(3838,4205,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2011-01-14 19:50:32','2011-01-14 17:50:32','And you can easily freeze the leftover soup for a quick meal when your project has come to a close!  You do have a freezer on your refrigerator, don\'t you?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',3822,0),(3847,4205,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-14 23:44:30','2011-01-14 21:44:30','@Milen and @Whitney Thanks for being such careful readers. I hate to break it to you but it was just a typo. These things happen sometimes. I was in a rush this morning getting reading for school, eating breakfast, typing a blog post, ironing my shirt, washing dishes and trying to do my hair all before 7:15am when I like to be heading out the door.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3837,1),(3866,4211,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.68','2011-01-15 20:01:53','2011-01-15 18:01:53','Oh, there\'s so much to choose from. Cabbage and vine leaf sarmas, beans, lentils (which, to my utter disbelief, we now import from Canada), kavarma, kapama, the stuffed peppers mentioned above (which I hate, but they\'re as Bulgarian as you can get), my favorite shkembe chorba and so on...\r\nHere\'s an easy one. It has several variations and most are called Яйца по панагюрски, I just call it eggs with cheese. You boil some water then drop a couple of eggs in it (without the shells, I mean). You crumble some cheese or cut it in cubes in a dish. After the eggs are white and boiled (with still liquid yolks), take them out and put them on the cheese. In a pan with some oil or ideally butter, you fry some of paprika, then pour it on the eggs. Ta-daa!\r\nAnd if you watn something more challenging, I have a fantastic recipe for a cake, that even my grandmother doesn\'t remember where she got it from. I\'ll translate it for you if you want. :)\r\nAnd here\'s an idea for your next challenge - make several types of зимнина. Not in February, though.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4402,4273,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-02-02 15:22:10','2011-02-02 13:22:10','@Gingi and @helen Good eye! I did add vinegar. I forgot. But, I didn\'t toss in any garlic. I should have because I love garlic. Next time. As for the potato, it made it in the soup because it was old and going to be lonely in the crisper all by itself. So while pealing and chopping carrots, I also threw the potato into the mix.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4397,1),(3861,4211,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-15 12:38:30','2011-01-15 10:38:30','I suggest you break dishes into 5 groups of 3: soups, starters, mains, deserts and baking. \r\nFor example: \r\n3 soups: supa topcheta(meatball soup), bob chorba(beans soup) and tarator;\r\n3 starters: gyuvetche, chushki v domaten sos(peppers in tomatoe souce) and surmi;\r\n3 mains: musaka, kiufteta and gyuvetch;\r\n3 desserts: mlqko s oriz(sweet rice with milk), makaroni na furna(sweet mac&amp;cheese, oven baked), biskvitena torta(biscuit cake);\r\n3 bakes: banitca, milinki, pitka;\r\n\r\nI\'m sure the other readers will come up with more dishes you can choose from, these here were only for example. :) \r\nOnce you decide on the dishes you\'ll be able to plan your shopping.\r\nAs for joining - I think moust of us are up for it. :D',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(3863,4211,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-01-15 17:34:43','2011-01-15 15:34:43','29 days in February? I thought we were only 2011 and that there is at least one whole year before the world ends. \r\nEven if you make that many dishes you can still bring them to school and brag.\r\nApcho suggests a good plan - may I add also stuffed red peppers?\r\nYou don\'t really need Bulgarian pottery unless you want to make gyuvetche, sirene po shopski, etc which are really very tasty or kavarma (but for the last one you would definitely need friends to help eating it all)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(3948,4222,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2011-01-18 21:59:45','2011-01-18 19:59:45','Carolyn,\r\nYour dAd stepped up to the plate and did almost all the cooking year that my job teaching chemistry required about 12 - 14 hours per day (7 days a week) of my time.  He watched a lot of TV cooking shows about that time and really did introduce a lot of new ways of cooking into his/our life.  The \"lots of vegetables\" thing was an agreement (even competition) we set up.  \r\nThe new way of thinking was to stop worrying about how many \"servings\" per day and start thinking about how \"many different vegetables\" we can incorporate every day.  We have had meals that contained as many as 9 or even 10 different vegetables.  Usually we get about  7.  Last night\'s sauce in the lasagna had tomatoes, onions, zucchini, garlic, celery and mushrooms. The salad had lettuce (2 types), spinach, green onions, cucumber and fresh tomato. Then we also cooked some frozen corn.\r\nLove,\r\nMoM',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(3949,4219,'Emil A. Georgiev','bulgarus@googlemail.com','http://reguligence.biz','178.190.194.54','2011-01-19 01:12:00','2011-01-18 23:12:00','Do not like rats. Never did. To the best of my knowledge, once caught, they should best be drawn.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4467,4284,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-04 07:58:42','2011-02-04 05:58:42','@Gingi I figured musaka was Greek after pouring over 100\'s of Greek moussaka recipes. Interestingly many of the Greek recipes had you make a white sauce like béchamel sauce rather than a yogurt, egg, cheese mixture as the sauce. I like the yogurt route it\'s a time saver. I think that I am going to give the mushroom musaka a whirl as rule I don\'t eat or prepare meat at home.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4455,1),(5059,4317,'Jessi','vocalistic@gmail.com','','68.191.209.152','2011-02-21 19:29:00','2011-02-21 17:29:00','Oh I\'m sure the Sofia experience is its own animal entirely! I actually never spent much time in Moscow--my family lived in Omsk, a large city pretty far east of there, out in Siberia. It\'s nice to hear that people in Bulgaria might speak a bit of English, because I have zero language knowledge so far (though I\'m willing! I just want to wait till we know where we\'re going before diving into a particular foreign language...)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',5058,0),(5057,4317,'Jessi W.','vocalistic@gmail.com','','68.191.209.152','2011-02-21 17:53:59','2011-02-21 15:53:59','hi karolinka! i just found your blog after my husband applied to teach english at the american college of sofia, and i was curious what it would be like to live in bulgaria. i lived in russia as a teenager (painful to think that was 10 years ago--i\'m so old!), and many of your photos and descriptions of day-to-day life remind me of that. \r\n\r\neven if we end up taking another job and moving somewhere else, i\'ll still keep checking on your blog--such a great window into the young and adventurous expat life!\r\n\r\n--jessitchka (:',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(5058,4317,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-21 18:59:28','2011-02-21 16:59:28','Hi @Jessie W. I\'m glad you found the blog. I really like living in Sofia but it\'s not America nor is it Moscow. My cousin lived in Moscow for about three years and my first year in Bulgaria she came to visit me (and I went to visit her). I was thrilled with Moscow but I didn\'t really know what to expect. She came to Bulgaria and kept saying things like \"it\'s a smaller Moscow\" or \"it\'s so accessible\" or \"people here are more willing to speak English than in Russia.\" These remarks sort of hard to judge though because she was only here for a long weekend but I think it\'s an interesting perspective and I one that I couldn\'t bring to the table.  Good luck with the decision making!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5057,1),(4455,4284,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','93.152.162.67','2011-02-03 23:52:24','2011-02-03 21:52:24','Um, OK, that may be a bit confusing... Yes, moussaka is actually a Greek dish. And there are a lot of variants, including different vegetables. But the moussaka that is generally accepted as a traditional Bulgarian dish is the potatoes and minced meat one, I think... Still, I find the idea of mushroom moussaka great :) and maybe I\'ll try it in the next days...\r\n\r\nMost recipes for this dish go like this: you peel and cut the potatoes, you saute the other vegetables/ minced meat/ etc. You mix everything in a pan, put some salt and pepper (a bit of guessing and luck will help :)) The mixed yogurt and eggs plus the optional кашкавал are poured over (though you can also do that after the dish\'s been half-baked already). I usually bake it at 180-200C and it takes about 40-60 minutes... But the easiest way to find out if it\'s ready is to take a look and probably try it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5044,4306,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-21 06:57:34','2011-02-21 04:57:34','@Anjela Thanks so much for your comment. I love your blog and I am adding to my google reader!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5041,1),(5556,4461,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-03-09 10:20:03','2011-03-09 08:20:03','The buildings are impressive.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 GTB7.1','',0,0),(5047,4317,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-02-21 09:14:56','2011-02-21 07:14:56','If you have a chance some day, go visit Sibiu, Brasov or Sighisoara, it\'s very pretty over there!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(4506,4288,'Георги Й','gjordanoff@gmail.com','','93.155.255.58','2011-02-05 13:59:37','2011-02-05 11:59:37','You can also download the English version of the questionnaire at http://www.nsi.bg/census2011/PDOCS2/karta_Census2011_en.pdf and fill it out before the census taker knocks on you door and then just show him/her your answers.\r\nThe US embassy gives you some guidelines, too: http://bulgaria.usembassy.gov/census2011.html',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b10','',0,0),(5555,4480,'Ilia Temelkov - soregashi','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','84.54.163.67','2011-03-09 10:08:05','2011-03-09 08:08:05','Почти съм убеден да започна някакви вуду ритуали или нещо такова, за да викна пролетта. Може би шамански танци също биха помогнали... надявам се *dancing*\r\n\r\nI\'m almost convinced to start some voodoo rituals or something of these manners to bring spring. May be some shaman dances would work too... I hope *dancing*',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(4504,4288,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-05 12:26:04','2011-02-05 10:26:04','I wholeheartedly embrace the idea of an online census. It\'s faster, easier and for the National Statistics Institute - cheaper. And already more than 1 000 000 people have completed the online form. I say it\'s a pretty good start and a definite improvement. I\'m still not clear as to why foreigners and Bulgarians currently in other countries can\'t use the online form, but I hope this will be possible next time. \r\nYou should definitely ask around at school if they\'re gonna organize something. \r\nI don\'t know when the census people will come looking for you, because last time I didn\'t pay much attention to that. But it\'s likely that they\'ll put some sort of notice on your building door the week before, with the date and a specific time. At least that\'s how it goes when they come to read the water meters and and heating.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(3977,4227,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-01-20 10:58:30','2011-01-20 08:58:30','You haven\'t lived in times where there weren\'t enough buses to go around, being that due to lack of diesel or just the buses are broken.When you miss your bus because you are late, then it\'s OK. But missing your bus because it\'s overstuffed really sucks, especially when you have to wait another hour for the next one. And it could also be overcrowded :)\r\nSo yeah I can\'t expect a person coming from western countries to understand it, but getting on the bus is really important when you have lived through those times :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5550,4480,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com','71.192.135.187','2011-03-09 03:55:55','2011-03-09 01:55:55','I have been wearing a martenitsa, given a few to friends, and played springtime songs to appease Baba Marta, but it\'s still cold, and there\'s still plenty of snow on the ground.  The magic must not be working this year :(',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(3981,4227,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-20 13:31:46','2011-01-20 11:31:46','It\'s a horrible thing when people are unable / refuse to change (even when circumstances change).\r\nI have run after busses, missed busses, got in and out from really crowded ones but that doesn\'t mean that I would carry that behaviour with me for the rest of my life. \r\nWhat really leaves me speechless is the fact that people run for the metro. c\'mon next one is after four minutes. Why risk a broken leg for that? Or risk hurting the other people around you? Carolyn is right that most people on the streets are hugely inconsiderate about other people being around them. \r\n(btw, this discussion about crowded busses just reminded me of a story from \"Dirty Havana Trilogy\")',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',3977,0),(3983,4227,'bob','chibuche@mail.bg','','92.247.8.174','2011-01-20 19:46:12','2011-01-20 17:46:12','Of course you\'ll run for the metro if you\'re already late for work and you don\'t want to be late four (or actually 5 to 15) minutes more. As for crowded buses, it\'s a generation thing. The change of the circumstances has little effect on people who have spent the better part of their lives chasing overcrowded buses, knowing that if they miss one, they\'ll have to wait for at least half an hour.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',3981,0),(3989,4219,'Melly','melissa@melissaroberts.org','','209.220.223.66','2011-01-21 02:36:39','2011-01-21 00:36:39','ohhhhh the rats in our house.... S. was my hero. getting the shivers just remembering them scampering around. \r\n\r\ndidn\'t we decide they were yankees fans? :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4531,4291,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-06 12:04:26','2011-02-06 10:04:26','@helen and @bobby Thanks, you two! I in fact did know the “preservative” as a condom issue. Your comments both gave me the giggles and for the first time in a long time I felt like I was in elementary school and someone had just told me a dirty joke on the playground and was like: hey, do you get it? And I was like: yeah. Then I giggled some more.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4530,1),(4530,4291,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-02-06 11:31:01','2011-02-06 09:31:01','Thank you very much for your explanation. I wouldn\'t know what I would do without it. \r\nThe question was to Carolyn with two eminent results:\r\n1) She knows better why people tend to giggle\r\n2) She learns some more Bulgarian\r\nBut you never know - the result turned out to be for me to receive a much needed lesson in languages. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',4527,0),(3993,4193,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com','71.192.135.187','2011-01-21 05:07:47','2011-01-21 03:07:47','When I came back to the States from Germany it was hard for me to speak English, especially when I was tired from the jet lag.  My brain and body were totally confused, and I often mixed German words with English, which puzzled my parents, who wondered what was wrong with me :) \r\nJet lag is like being hung over without the booze.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(4529,4291,'Devin','devinsaylor@gmail.com','','85.130.17.25','2011-02-06 11:22:24','2011-02-06 09:22:24','Hi Karolinka,\r\n\r\nI moved to Sofia two weeks ago from Belgrade (via the U.S).  Being a fellow American female, I am really enjoying your blog and experiences and can relate to many!  I would love to ask you more about Sofia and living in Bulgaria. Perhaps we could communicate off blog?\r\n\r\nBest,\r\n\r\nDevin',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)','',4526,0),(4527,4291,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-06 10:52:25','2011-02-06 08:52:25','Yeah, just to days ago the minister of agriculture said \"we used to have three types of bread, but it was real bread. Now we have 30 types, but it\'s the worst in Europe\" or something like that. I remember how there was a bakery just a block away and me and my grandfather would go in the morning and buy bread that pretty much just came out of the oven. Sometimes it was even too hot to touch. And on the trip home, short as it was, I\'d eat a big piece of it. Ah, sweet childhood memories. \r\n\r\n@helen: Indeed it\'s immediately obvious to a Bulgarian speaker, though it\'s not so much the meaning, but more precisely these two words would be homophones.  The meaning of preservative is simply консерванти.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4526,4291,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-02-06 10:20:19','2011-02-06 08:20:19','Haha. Buy a smaller type of bread then or ask them to cut it in half and buy only one half. They still do that in smaller shops. \r\nbtw, \"preservative\" means something quite different in Bulgarian? Did you learn what it was already?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(4005,4227,'Grandpa Jack','ellija.jack@gmail.com','http://gmail.com','68.189.136.99','2011-01-21 20:03:32','2011-01-21 18:03:32','Here in Walla Walla we have to wait thirty minutes for the next bus, except on Sunday when the next bus comes on Monday morning.  But nobody pushes you out of the way even on Mondays.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',3983,0),(6028,4563,'llcoolv','vassil100@gmail.com','','92.247.231.177','2011-03-27 20:22:49','2011-03-27 18:22:49','A bit of food for the thought - an article describing how more than 90% of the bulgarian people working high income professions declare monthly income of 420 bgn (~215 eur)\r\nhttp://www.dnevnik.bg/bulgaria/2011/03/27/1066110_raboteshtite_skupi_profesii_se_topiat_i_kriiat/\r\nas both my parents are structural engineers, and there are a lot of architects and engineers in my extended family, I can safely say that the actual figures are much higher (in some cases well above 10-15 times higher). For the other proffessions quoted the numbers are even more distorted (even ngo-hippie-pseudo-lawyers take home well more than 420 bgn).\r\n\r\nas for the salaries in BAS, well you cannot expect to work in an institution notorious for its misspending, corruption and poor management and be happy with your work place. moreover placing the blame entirely on the bulgarian government is wrong. the country is a full-member of the eu and that is a much greater source of funds than the pity allowance alotted by our government. and I don\'t think that bas employees are right in placing all the blame at the government, while their management is doing an even poorer job (e.g. they almost never manage to secure any external funding).\r\n\r\nanyway, the reason for both issues (people doing everything possible to not pay their taxes, and the academy of sciences employees receiving fuck all for their labour) is in the lack of will for reforms in the last three governments (after the udf/ods one). and the reason for those poor choices couldn\'t be found further than in the stupidity, forgetfulness and naiveness of the bulgarian people. in other words - you always reap what you sow.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(5616,4500,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-03-11 16:21:05','2011-03-11 14:21:05','Erm, why is making yougurt at home expensive? I mean buying a cow and keeping it in your hallway - sure. But you can make pretty decent yogurt with store-bought milk and some blankets. Though if you want to use real \"straight-from-the-cow\" milk, you do have to take a trip to some nearby village maybe once in a week or two. I\'m not sure what you mean by \"make yogurt at home\".\r\nAnd speaking of homemade, did you like that strawberry jam I gave you?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0','',0,0),(6029,4583,'sophillarosa','sophillarosa@gmail.com','http://sophiainbulgaria.blogspot.com/','87.126.107.16','2011-03-27 21:02:08','2011-03-27 19:02:08','A friend of mine told me that she heard on the radio about a new initiative to get Bulgarian citizens to fill in the potholes themselves with buckets of \"instant asphalt.\" No joke. All you need to do is buy the stuff, fill in the hole, smooth it out and wait a few hours and it\'s as good as new! Unfortunately, I couldn\'t find anything on this in English.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(4018,4227,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','78.40.137.151','2011-01-22 12:39:29','2011-01-22 10:39:29','One of the reasons is because your society is based more or less on cooperation while ours is based on competition. \"How so\" you can ask, \"you are a post communist country, where did this competing spirit come from and why in elderly people?\"\r\nThe answer is that in communist times all the good things were restricted. If you want to have a car, you had to wait for years even if you have the money. If you want to eat bananas you had to wait for november and december and if you had to wait on big queues. If you want a colour TV you must have a good relations with some \"people\" to have it.\r\nAt that time the system of \"connections\" emerged. Everyone formed a \"circle\" of other people that he can trust. All the really good things were sold \"under the table\" and only to a people that are in your circle. After that you repay the service by giving then something that is connected with your profession.\r\nSo after living 20, 30 years in such society you start to percieve the strangers around you as competition for everything. Add to this also the traditional Bulgarian thinking:\r\n\"We are all equal (this is the main communist dogma) and how come someone else have more than me - he is certainly a criminal or have better connections but he does not deserve to have more than me\" and you will start to understand some of the reasons behind pushing the rest while getting on the bus.\r\nSome other indications for the competitiveness of our society can be seen in the sport - most of the big sport achievments in Bulgaria are individual, not team based. We have the world record on women high jump; we had some of the best wresters, some of the best heavy weight lifters and they are all really good, having several world and olympic titles. Compare that with team sports - we have been fourth in the world in soccer and several times second/third in volleyball.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4005,0),(4019,4233,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','93.152.162.67','2011-01-22 13:11:05','2011-01-22 11:11:05','The general problem in Bulgaria is that if you\'re sick, you don\'t stay at home. Sick children can\'t stay at home alone and most parents can\'t take time off from work, because their employer won\'t let them to or will give them hard time about it. And it\'s just the same if you\'re an adult. Moreover, you\'ll have to wait a month or two before you receive your money for the sick leave... and a lot of people can\'t afford that.\r\n\r\nSo no matter how high your temperature is and how much you are coughing and sneezing, you just go out and spread the virus.\r\n\r\nAnd the idea of the flu vacation is that students will stay at home and stay healthy, but of course that rarely happens. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(6030,3578,'Shannon','shannon@bendell.ca','http://www.livinginthegray.com','70.76.87.93','2011-03-27 21:21:42','2011-03-27 19:21:42','Hi Carolyn, I\'ve been reading your blog for a little while now, but never commented. I am interested in learning more about Bulgaria as my family is currently waiting to adopt a child from Bulgaria. I have been trying to find ways to educate myself about Bulgaria and the language. I recently stumbled across an online program intended to help teach Bulgarian (http://www.easybulgarian.com/#) and I was wondering if you could tell me what you think of it? Obviously Bulgarian is not a common language for people in North America to want to learn and I live in a smallish Canadian city where there are no language classes I can take. I would like to learn what I can of the language but I don\'t want to waste my time on a program that isn\'t good. Maybe you know of other materials or online resources that could be helpful? I\'d appreciate it if you would consider emailing me privately about this. Thanks so much!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(5137,4345,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-02-23 15:32:26','2011-02-23 13:32:26','The potato salad actually had some mayo + chopped onion, squeezed lemon, salt and pepper. We also had to add some parsley but we forgot it in Sofia :) This salad is a perfect garnish for chops, fish, meatballs (kyufteta).\r\nThe recipe for the bean salad comes from the Rhodopy Mountain. This bean is called Smilyanski fasul (Смилянски фасул) from the name of the village of Smilyan. The salad also had roasted red peppers, spring onion, parsley, pickled cucumbers, olive oil, salt and squeezed lemon. All these make an unique combination but the secret is that the bean, red peppers and the pickled cucumbers were home grown! :)\r\nOh and Joro is actually trying to defrost the chops on this photo. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(4026,4233,'Andrey','nero2@abv.bg','http://wahregedanken.blogspot.com','77.70.61.85','2011-01-22 23:16:46','2011-01-22 21:16:46','There\'s a flu vacation in schools, because of the flu epidemic in Sofia( http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=124397) The impact is mostly on hospitals, as they cease to take people in, planned operations are postponed. In US you have \"snow day(s)\", we have flu vacations ^^',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(7903,418,'MK','michelleckirkland@hotmail.com','','89.253.182.227','2011-07-03 13:20:55','2011-07-03 11:20:55','Hey! Great to meet you last night. Hopefully our paths will cross again before I head back to England at the end of August. In the meantime, don\'t forget to watch out for manholes without covers, I\'ve heard they can be deadly.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)','',5471,0),(5833,3578,'Max','freemanfilms60@gmail.com','','76.169.216.105','2011-03-19 22:22:27','2011-03-19 20:22:27','Hallo there,\r\nIt is really nice to read your blog. So many experiences shared for Bulgaria! I\'ve never red before that much about this country in a blog. I have been there for different events and enjoyed their food. Much better then Rumanian, Turkish and Greek cosine. It is a great place to learn from their culture. They have impressive historical background from The Ancient Thracians. What a great and precise art-The Ancient Thracian Treasure! (3000-1200 B.C.) Have you seen it? The American College of Sofia is the oldest American School in Europe and are teaching there! What a great chance. You should try to contact Mr. Petko Bocharov who is a great writer and journalist (the oldest working journalist in the World-93 year old gentleman) who was alumni from the American College of Simeonovo, Sofia. He wrote books about about his experience in three different periods of the Bulgarian history and there are chapters dedicated to the College.\r\nLet me know if this was a good info for you. \r\nSincerely,\r\nMax',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27','',0,0),(5157,4345,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-02-24 05:09:07','2011-02-24 03:09:07','Boiling the potatoes with the skin on helps to retain water soluble nutrients that could be leached into the cooking water when boiled after peeling and chopping.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5160,4364,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-24 06:48:26','2011-02-24 04:48:26','@Bobby Hum. Now I am worried that I didn\'t remember the questions correctly. I may have the heating thing wrong. I\'ll double check with another teacher at school today and see if he remembers. Or maybe I can get my hands on another copy of the census...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5149,1),(5161,4345,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-24 06:49:11','2011-02-24 04:49:11','@MoM Ah. So there is some science to it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5157,1),(4034,4241,'Seascrambler','seascrambler@abv.bg','','178.16.131.155','2011-01-23 17:13:12','2011-01-23 15:13:12','\"Жената днес\" means \"The Woman Today\", not \"Women’s Day\".\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\nSeascrambler',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; bg; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4035,4241,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.185','2011-01-23 17:33:18','2011-01-23 15:33:18','If you\'re having trouble with a given recipe, just snap a picture and mail it to me, I\'d be happy to transalte it for you. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4595,4291,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-08 06:44:39','2011-02-08 04:44:39','@Ryan. Very cool. I loved Poland when I visited two summers ago. Hope that you\'re enjoying life in Spain again! I think that transition can be a difficult one.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4592,1),(7622,5068,'Adrian Nikolov','adrnikolov@yahoo.com','','75.25.59.1','2011-06-16 04:57:02','2011-06-16 02:57:02','Carolyn, \r\nI agree with this part of Shannon\'s comment: \"It takes a lot of courage to put yourself in what you know will be a challenging position\". And I think the same courage is the reason you are in Bulgaria....Not sure that kids environment is good for studying a language, hope you prove me wrong. \r\nAre there any free summer classes you could attend? At schools or universities? Or at what used to be called \"4itali6te\", if they still exist? \r\n-Adrian',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; yie8)','',0,0),(6040,4583,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-28 05:41:28','2011-03-28 03:41:28','@sophillarosa What?! That\'s the best thing I\'ve ever heard. I\'d love any information you can send my way on this initiative be it in Bulgarian or not.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6029,1),(4041,4241,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-23 20:50:36','2011-01-23 18:50:36','@Bobby Sounds great! Thanks so much for such a kind offer.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4035,1),(4042,4241,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-23 20:52:51','2011-01-23 18:52:51','@Seascrambler Oh that was a funny mistake on my part. In the States, we have a popular magazine called <a href=\"http://www.womansday.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Woman\'s Day</a>.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4034,1),(4592,4291,'ryan','rgb1211@gmail.com','','150.216.90.115','2011-02-08 05:34:33','2011-02-08 03:34:33','I recently just studied abroad in Poland for a year and I had the same scripted convos, especially with my family once back home, about preservatives. I found it refreshing to buy bread so often and hopefully my body appreciated the lack of chemicals I was recieving. \r\n\r\nAnyway, I found your blog from matadornetwork and became enthralled. I am currently applying to teach english in Spain after graduation in May. So hopefully... Anyway, I will continue to read about your adventures! My friend from Sofia tell me that it\'s beautiful, so I hope you enjoy it all!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.84 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(5638,4500,'Elizabeth','liz_robi142@hotmail.com','','98.80.50.212','2011-03-12 18:54:15','2011-03-12 16:54:15','Have you ever tried бяло сладко?  When I first saw the picture of yogurt, that\'s what I thought it is. It\'s like the Bulgarian equivalent of homemade marshmallow fluff. I bought a jar from an old woman right outside Bachkovo Monastery last year and it was heavenly. I would love to know more about it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15','',0,0),(6737,4838,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2011-04-29 00:26:21','2011-04-28 22:26:21','Ohh. I heart Ritter Sport! Especially the milk chocolate with hazel nuts. The fat kid inside me is excited that I will be able to get these in Bulgaria!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(7920,418,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-07-04 16:58:00','2011-07-04 14:58:00','@MK Hey thanks! I can\'t agree more!! Have a great summer and let\'s make plans to meet up again sometime.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1','',7903,1),(5167,4364,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-02-24 10:41:22','2011-02-24 08:41:22','I pay all my taxes so the government can calculate what I can buy with my money if they are really interested in knowing. +1 is all they need to know as far as I am concerned.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4048,4227,'Ivo','sland@post.com','','188.223.208.155','2011-01-24 00:43:10','2011-01-23 22:43:10','In my experience, drivers are pricks for the most part and are almost always running behind schedule, so they sometimes spend waay too little time at the bus stop. After it\'s happened to you a few times, you just wanna stay on the safe side. There, a little less complicated and perhaps more practical explanation :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4633,3581,'Veny in Belovo','karavansarays@gmail.com','https://sites.google.com/site/karavansarays/home','87.126.247.49','2011-02-09 14:27:30','2011-02-09 12:27:30','Hi Karolinka,\r\nI came across your blog and really liked it. I tried to leave you a message here earlier, but somehow it didn\'t go trough. I\'m a Bulgarian and live with my partner and little daughter in Belovo. My partner is from UK and used to live there, but decided to move to Bulgaria as we thought we needed a change from our busy lifestyle.\r\nI\'m teaching English as a foreign language and Gary(my partner) is improving our home , also runs our small guest accommodation. \r\nI noticed you are interested in Bulgarian culture and food. I know a lot of Rhodopa mountain authentic recipes, which I have learned from my grandmother, who is 97 now and is from Smolian. I\'m also interested in nature and ethnic traditions.\r\nI would love to share my grandma\'s recipes with you and you are always welcome to visit if you wish. Belovo is not far from Sofia:))\r\nregards\r\nVeny',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(6577,4740,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-04-20 14:52:29','2011-04-20 12:52:29','@Andreytcho Wow. That sounds incredible and terrifying all at the same time. I am not sure that I am brave enough but I would like to know how to say of these things in Bulgarian.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6576,1),(6209,4682,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.206','2011-04-04 11:17:38','2011-04-04 09:17:38','Have fun :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16','',0,0),(6578,4735,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-04-20 14:54:53','2011-04-20 12:54:53','@Djgeorgie Ah. Thank-you for such a thoughtful response to all of the different things I found myself wondering about recently related to life in Sofia for blind people.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6574,1),(4057,4227,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-24 07:48:04','2011-01-24 05:48:04','@Ivo for sure!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4048,1),(8008,5172,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','128.193.8.92','2011-07-08 23:48:27','2011-07-08 21:48:27','Do I get to drink beer in the swimming pool? I\'m not likely to fall asleep in it, like you might.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0','',0,0),(6576,4740,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.75','2011-04-20 14:04:13','2011-04-20 12:04:13','I will be going for a bungee jump in Vitinia, you are welcome to come. \r\nI will teach you the bungee appropriate phrases in bulgarian such as, but not limited to:\r\nOh fuck, this shit is scary and I am going to die.\r\nOMG i think i crapped in my pants just watching others do it\r\nHELP HELP I AM AMERICAN, YOU BRING ME UP OR I WILL GO NUCLEAR ON YOUR ASS',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0','',0,0),(4064,2341,'Lian','momentary_eden@yahoo.com','http://www.facebook.com/momentaryeden','121.54.54.49','2011-01-24 12:35:25','2011-01-24 10:35:25','.. this film was featured on the 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival (last December) and it was one of the good ones featured there. Two words --- its RAW and REAL. \r\n\r\nThe film being real kinda left me sad too... RIP Itso.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(4067,4227,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-24 15:42:06','2011-01-24 13:42:06','This is just due to lack of culture (80% of Bulgarians would stop reading here and would not read the explanation. Don\'t be one of them!). Most of the people who live in crowded Sofia didn\'t grow-up at a crowded place. Because even clogged Sofia was not crowded in the 60s and 70s. So the problem did not exist. Go to a cosy, not-crowded Bulgarian city and use the public transport there and you will see what I mean. It\'s ok not to take turns because there is enough space for everyone. And everyone is amazingly polite so they don\'t push you not because you are taking turns, but because they don\'t push you.\r\nSuddenly, Sofia is crowded, no one is polite. There was never the moment when people could stop and think - ok, apparently we have to take turns, and it makes more sense to first get off/out of whatever and then to get on/in. It will take a lot of time to get this habit.\r\nI\'d be curious to find out how it happened in Germany because there it\'s impressive!',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',0,0),(4069,4246,'Uncle Hicks','jfemigh@aol.com','','69.220.184.198','2011-01-24 19:47:06','2011-01-24 17:47:06','This could be a good week to get a jump on your February cooking challenge.  You have some extra time and your health.  If the school lunch is not that great this week you could actually take some leftovers in for lunch.  In the Chicago area they will close individual schools if too many students are sick.  School closures due to illness don\'t happen very often.  Last year the schools closed primarily for some H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) scares.  Enjoy your week!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; BRI/1; NET_mmhpset)','',0,0),(6574,4735,'Djgeorgie','georgijivankin@gmail.com','http://www.zhivankin.com/','78.83.103.224','2011-04-20 11:53:34','2011-04-20 09:53:34','Well, you don\'t see too many disabled people around because most of them do not live in Mladost or if they do, most of those people hang around their local area. There are trained dogs for the blind by a foundation who specialises in buying, training and supplying dogs to their beneficiaries, however, most people prefer to walk around with a stick rather than use a dog. It is true that Sofia City is absolutely inaccessible, but not only for the blind. There are a few suitable crossings for people on wheelchairs or pregnant mothers, the transport system is antiquated, the pavement has so many holes in it... Simply madness.\n\nThe primary and secondary education of the blind is possible in a special school for the blind as it is in the states. Of course those who want to pursue a career, could opt to go to a normal high school to complete their secondary education. After finishing school, most disabled people study at the Sofia University or at one of the other numerous higher educational establishments around town.\n\nOverall, it\'s not that bad as it might seem it is.\n\nDon\'t think about it, I mean, even for the average Bulgarian, life is tough enough, let alone for the disabled one. It\'s important to stay positive. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0','',0,0),(4620,4291,'Beth','beth.ashworth@gmail.com','','209.252.34.204','2011-02-09 03:26:11','2011-02-09 01:26:11','I have totally had this conversation.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4073,4241,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','79.124.58.46','2011-01-24 23:09:59','2011-01-24 21:09:59','You can find most of the traditional Bulgarian recepies translated in English:\r\nhttp://www.passionateaboutfood.net/bulgarian.php\r\nhttp://www.visittobulgaria.com/faq/SiteMap.asp?d=faq-recipes\r\nThere are also some Bulgarian cook books in English that you can buy like this one: http://www.findbgfood.com/cookbooks-bulgarian-cookbook.htm\r\nEither of these won\'t help you learn Bulgarian anyway :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; bg; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(7730,5056,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.187.23','2011-06-23 22:36:21','2011-06-23 20:36:21','Do you think you could bring another bottle when you come in July.  I plan to open the one in the cupboard tonight!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(7731,5075,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.187.23','2011-06-23 22:44:06','2011-06-23 20:44:06','He better not text from his phone, because it is not part of his plan and Sprint charges $0.75 per text.  If you move back to the states and start to text him, I guess I could buy him a plan!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(21833,7018,'I. V.','ivvid@abv.bg','','77.70.85.44','2012-08-19 11:03:17','2012-08-19 09:03:17','Is the food that expensive in the US ? I\'m spending about 70 leva ($44) on food weekly, mostly from Billa or Kaufland. This doesn\'t include eating outside, of course.\r\nI think that the food should be less expensive in the US, as a % of the average monthly income, compared to Bulgaria.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.79 Safari/537.1','',0,0),(13553,5952,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-12-10 14:23:24','2011-12-10 12:23:24','@Комитата Oh! I guess I should have paid better attention. I didn\'t actually buy the wine I was too busy taking not so great photos...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1','',13552,1),(12293,5802,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','77.85.10.29','2011-11-08 18:21:39','2011-11-08 16:21:39','My two guesses:\r\n1. An obscured swear word, as a message from (un)happy citizens of Sofia to our newly (re)elected mayor.\r\n\r\n2. An new ad for Bulgarian mobile operator Mtel, as their ad campaigns are getting more and more obscure. (Blue people in the subway, anyone?)',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.52','',0,0),(9096,5320,'Peggy Westmoreland Neal','yahwehssheep@att.net','','76.210.145.194','2011-09-05 19:45:55','2011-09-05 17:45:55','When you say Walla Walla, you are referring to Walla Walla, Washington, correct??  I lived out of Pasco WA while my husband was working on Ice Harbor Dam being built on the Snake River...early \'60\'s....Love that country.....Are these pictures close to Palouse WA?',0,'0','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB7.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(12855,5832,'Стефан','sulkton@gmail.com','','218.199.195.110','2011-11-24 11:15:08','2011-11-24 09:15:08','Could it be that women still have a leftover consciousness of being the inferior sex and are trying very hard to prove the old system wrong, while men, again with the same cultural consciousness, are taking it easy, believing at some level that their place and income are secure, as long as the old system lasts? Thus, the rise of women and the \"end of men.\"\r\nHopefully, we\'ll get to a point in the near future, when gender distinction will seem pointless, and society will have come up with more adequate criteria to evaluate its members. \r\nI agree with some thinkers that masculinity and femininity as gender terms differ from male and female as biological terms. The former are culturally produced social labels, but while traditional value systems firmly stipulate that you should be \"masculine\" if you\'re a male, and \"feminine\" if a female, a lot of people today think that both of them are inherent, more or less, in every person, male or female. I guess modern society is on its long way to redefine (or delete?) these two labels in our ideology, so we would have a healthy society where the least possible number of people will feel constrained and uneasy because of preconceptions. I, prersonally, have found it hard to communicate myself on a lot of occasions, because, although a biological male, I\'m feeling stronger and stronger connection to what society has been telling me is feminine. And that has nothing to do with sexual orientation, which is, I guess, a related topic, but we need not get involved in it for now. \r\nLoved your billboard analysis in the previous post and also the assignment you gave to your students. I\'ve been reading your blog on a regular basis for some months now. It\'s contagiously positive. I\'ve been far from Bulgaria, physically and metanlly, for some years, but through your blog I\'ve started feeling some closeness, appreciation and even affection for it that I don\'t think I have felt before, especially not while I was still living there. I am very happy someone like you is teaching Bulgarian kids, I wish I had a teacher like that while I was in school. \r\nBulgaria can be a tough place, you\'ve already figured it out. But it is changing, and people like you make it change for the better. Thanks for sharing your fun and troubles. Keep it up, Karolinka in Bulgaria.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2','',0,0),(12291,5802,'Diana','dianamjr@yahoo.co.uk','','128.173.232.214','2011-11-08 17:09:37','2011-11-08 15:09:37','It\'s a secret message. You got to look at it at least twice - once in the morning (presumably daylight) and once in the evening (presumably dark). The rest of the message on the billboard only shows (glows) in the dark. But the part that you see in the morning (and of which you took a picture) doesn\'t show (glow) in the dark. And by looking at it twice - in daylight, and in the dark, you get to combine the two messages into one and that one is the secret message. :-) How about this explanation? Would you return to look at it in the dark? And let us know? :-)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(6099,4666,'Shannon','shannon@bendell.ca','http://www.livinginthegray.com','70.76.78.175','2011-03-30 21:38:55','2011-03-30 19:38:55','It was absolutely my pleasure to chat with you this week! I hope it is the first of more conversations! Isn\'t it wonderful how the internet has made the world so much smaller? (PS-I found a couple of decent iphone apps to start working on learning Bulgarian and they were only a fraction of the cost of the program I found online. So I\'m going to try the apps out for a while and see how far I get!)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(4087,3578,'danuwaanalihi','danuwaanalihi@gmail.com','','170.162.33.13','2011-01-25 11:03:26','2011-01-25 09:03:26','I am trying to find some Thai restaurant in Sofia. Any chance that you already went through the same adventure and find some? :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SU 3.28; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC EA 2)','',0,0),(6806,4718,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-05-02 14:17:43','2011-05-02 12:17:43','Yay, Portugal! I am going in a month as well. Do you happen to know how much is train/bus ticket from Lisbon to Sintra?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(6132,4666,'Kyle S.','kyledstedman@gmail.com','http://transmediame.wordpress.com','131.247.201.194','2011-03-31 18:16:06','2011-03-31 16:16:06','1) You have no idea how many times in the last couple years that I\'ve heard or read something about Bulgaria and perked up with an interest I never would have before reading your blog. (Viktor Krum was from BULGARIA?! No way!)\r\n\r\n2) When extra coffee doesn\'t do it, that\'s a slump indeed. There\'s no way around it.\r\n\r\n3) I still have your DaD\'s waffle recipe, which I think about every time I make any big breakfast. (Step 1: Drink coffee....)\r\n\r\nWoo-hoo!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0','',0,0),(7062,3578,'Ilia','turgun@abv.bg','','78.90.129.102','2011-05-18 00:42:33','2011-05-17 22:42:33','Hey Carolyn!\r\nI sure hope I\'m not the first one to do so, but I just wanted to thank you for spreading the word about Bulgaria (through this blog… at least :)! \r\nThe positive and respectable image that you promote is sure something that I think we deserve as people and I also hope that we get more friends such as yourself (helps the image and… the national self-esteem ;) you probably know what I mean :D ). \r\nHope you have good luck and that you will continue to enjoy your stay here!\r\n\r\nThanks again!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1','',0,0),(6131,4666,'Elena','lencheto@gmail.com','','63.84.57.2','2011-03-31 17:35:29','2011-03-31 15:35:29','Ooooh, I got a mention on your blog :) I too was very happy to connect with you, and can\'t wait to meet you in person.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(8022,5172,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.18.122.189','2011-07-09 22:17:48','2011-07-09 20:17:48','I wish we were going to see you in Walla Walla.  We\'ll be on the western side of the state next week but just briefly.  Enjoy Walla Walla for us, we miss it too especially the pool and the cabin . . . and oh, yes, the PEOPLE.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2011032020 Camino/2.0.7 (like Firefox/3.0.19)','',0,0),(4095,4249,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-01-25 21:42:15','2011-01-25 19:42:15','Looks good. British English.\r\nDo you happen to know the slogan of the Sofia city? That is on the city coat of arms? Then you would get the first gem :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(4733,4304,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-02-11 11:33:14','2011-02-11 09:33:14','Yes, I hear stories about wok computers. They\'re so overstuffed with useless junk, but the admin doesn\'t let you clean it up, install any sort of antivirus, antijunk or antianything... And with proper tech support a computer can do good work for a long time.\r\nWell, kids are supposed to learn languages faster. Since we\'re born (and some say even earlier, as babies\'s cries differ based on what language they were exposed to while in the womb) till we\'re about 11 years old we absorb language much easier, so don\'t worry about the kids being better. It\'s supposed to be like that.\r\nWhy don\'t you get a smaller pan? I don\'t think they\'re very expensive. Or make the big dish, freeze half for the next time you don\'t have time to make something.\r\nThe Onda points will probably mean you get a free coffee with every 100. Apaprently a points system is the next cool thing and everyone is trying to implement it. Meh...\r\nAs for spring, I think it\'s just about here and I still haven\'t enjoyed my winter fully...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4732,4304,'Kontrolior4e','kasorazbiva4@gmail.com','','114.207.196.63','2011-02-11 11:10:09','2011-02-11 09:10:09','Does skipping helen\'s comment mean the next quote is still valid? \r\n\r\nsasha says:\r\nMarch 9, 2010 at 7:33 pm\r\ndon’t you feel bad about sucking up the money bulgarian people (mostly children and retired) pay to ride the public transport? how would you feel if I went to wella wella or whatever the monkey name of that town was and not pay for a pack of your dad’s infamous coffee? I am surprised that the progressive and great american nation sends its people to live on the backs of 3rd world nations. next time you feel like a bus fare is unimportant and does not deserve one lev off your budget, feel free to ask anyone standing next to you for one lev. most people would be happy to support our fellow americans\r\n\r\nAnd I can\'t stop wondering why would using publick service and not paying for it is morally justifiable. You work in the most prestigious highschool and you receive salary that is few times higher than the medium bulgarian income of a household and still you ride for free and think that is OK. Shame on you, really.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13','',4700,0),(4106,4241,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2011-01-26 04:37:52','2011-01-26 02:37:52','A friend  from Iowa was stationed in North Dakota the same time as me and my husband.  At the time this friend was single, and lived in a dorm with no cooking facilities.  He had grown up on a farm, where they ate nearly every part of the animals they slaughtered.\r\nOne day he asked if he could cook cow brains in our kitchen.  Since he was so keen on eating them, I gave him the go-ahead.  When he offered some to me I refused. Just couldn\'t get over the fact they were brains.\r\nJust curious, how are brains prepared in Bulgaria?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)','',0,0),(4729,4304,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-02-11 10:36:58','2011-02-11 08:36:58','@Inga I too am afraid that winter will return. But the snowdrops are a welcome sight.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4723,1),(4110,4249,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-26 07:55:21','2011-01-26 05:55:21','@helen I have no idea what the slogan of the city is. Maybe: Constantin Slept here? Everything is better with Rakiya? or The town so great we named it Sofia? (That\'s a take on Walla Walla\'s old tourism tag line: Walla Walla the town so nice they named it twice. Currently we\'re giving a new one a spin: Walla Walla Surprise, Surprise. But really, that\'s got nothing on the previous one.)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4095,1),(4111,4249,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','217.9.232.218','2011-01-26 08:25:56','2011-01-26 06:25:56','It\'s a bit clumsy and overly enthusiastic, but I don\'t find it that ridiculous. He  mentions all of the well known cliches, but for someone unfamiliar with the history of the city, it could be interesting.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; MS-RTC LM 8)','',0,0),(6119,4666,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-31 05:56:58','2011-03-31 03:56:58','@Shannon It was great to chat with you too!! And for the iphone app--what a great solution!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6099,1),(4728,4304,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-02-11 10:36:12','2011-02-11 08:36:12','@Veny Right?! That\'s what I am talking about. I hear little kids babbling and I can only stumble through basic sentences. Oh well. Maybe with it time it will get better.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4725,1),(4114,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-26 09:53:37','2011-01-26 07:53:37','I watched the video a few days ago and I think it\'s pretty badly made. Time and time again when talking about Sofia and Bulgaria people tend to go back to the same old cliches. And that\'s boring!\r\nHere\'s an idea - for your next project make a video clip or a series of clips, something like a vlog, about Sofia. We\'ll help with ideas, locations, shooting and such. :) And youtube is there for that purpose. ;)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(4115,4249,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-26 10:38:31','2011-01-26 08:38:31','Yeah, I watched it till the end and I saw that they actually mentioned it just before the 25:45 gem :)\r\nThe motto translates something like: Growing, but not getting older (or not aging as they say in the video). The idea is that it grows, develops but does not get old (in the quite negative connotation of this word).\r\nAnyway, the video is quite naive and old-fashioned in a way but it is not much different from other similar videos on Discovery. And is informative. I learnt things I didn\'t know.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',4110,0),(4116,4249,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-26 10:41:39','2011-01-26 08:41:39','@Apcho The thing is that I don\'t that I could do a better job. I think that there\'s a chance that I could funnier and that I could be more irreverent but I am not sure that anyone really wants to watch these things. Maybe I am wrong through.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4114,1),(4117,4249,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-26 10:46:34','2011-01-26 08:46:34','@Ilian Well, I think that this video is ridiculous in that it\'s extremely silly not so much in the deserving ridicule kind of way.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4111,1),(4120,4249,'logitech','manmotte@abv.bg','','85.187.99.14','2011-01-26 11:45:37','2011-01-26 09:45:37','I cant believe that you actually have lived in Sofia for 2 years and you don\'t know anything about it...This is ridiculous in my opinion. I don\'t want to insult you but it seems like you don\'t know anything about European culture...  And this video is made for people like you, so I strongly advise you to take your time and watch it again and maybe watch some similar ones for other EU cities, which will give you some background knowledge. Finally, if you don\'t like Sofia and don\'t know anything about it, why would you live here?\r\n( ps. things said in the video are all true, but maybe its strange for you that Constantine liked Sofia not Walla Walla? :S )',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(4121,4249,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-26 12:26:56','2011-01-26 10:26:56','@logitech I think that you may have missed the point. I actually like Sofia. I also like Bulgaria. But I dislike this video. I think that the video is reductive. I responded this video on by blog with a tone that is purposefully flippant and a little sarcastic.  In my mind this is in reaction to the grandiose language used to narrate the video.  The video making a hard sell of Sofia highlighting a lot wonderful cultural and historical sites in a way that comes over the top. But I can handle this travel/tourism pieces often adopt this kind language. What surprised me was that the sites highlighted in the video I would argue take much longer to enjoy and appreciate than the hour proffered at the end of the video.  \n\nAs such, I am fascinated (and a little repulsed) by the fact that the video seems to be saying: hey you, take another look at Sofia. Don\'t dismiss us.  (Which for the record is a sentiment that I appreciate, seeing as that\'s what I am trying to do with this blog). However at the end of the video, the narrative slips back into the trap that most traveling writing about Bulgaria does: there\'s no need to spend more than a day in Sofia (or in this case, an hour). See it for a day and then move on to better things.  It\'s this slippery reversal of narrative that I find the most distasteful rather than the slightly self-aggrandizing language used by a British Expat to describe Sofia\'s history.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4120,1),(4122,4249,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-01-26 12:43:19','2011-01-26 10:43:19','I cant believe that you actually dare to post something like that about somebody you dont know. Shame on you.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',4120,0),(4123,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-26 13:16:11','2011-01-26 11:16:11','I don\'t think the point is to do a better video. It\'s just that watching this one makes me extremely bored. There\'s noting fresh, trendy or interesting about it, it doesn\'t provoke you, it doesn\'t make you curious.\r\nOK, we get it - Sofia and Bulgaria have history. Great. Can they offer something else?\r\nIt\'s ridiculous, you are right.\r\nI imagine Terry saying \"Serdica is my Rome\" and Merete thinking \"The hell with this! I need a cold drink, a fresh and exciting meal and a new pair of shoes.\" And that\'s only 5 minutes into the movie...\r\nBringing something new to the table, being funny - those are a few ways ot improve a video presentation about Sofia.\r\nBecause let\'s be honest - this video isn\'t good enough even for watching let alone getting you interested in visiting and exploring Sofia. Except if you are a history fanatic. And even then you may get bored listening to how Sofia is so so so so soooooo much older and better than your capital. :D\r\nSo yeah, I think your take on Sofia might be a fresh, interesting and funny one. I sure would watch that. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4116,0),(4124,4249,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-26 13:24:02','2011-01-26 11:24:02','Now I get it. But I think that you have missed the point. He is actually saying: \"you can see layers and layers of European history from ancient times to nowadays in such a tiny spot in terms of earthly dimensions. How great is that!\"',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',4121,0),(4725,4304,'Veny','karavansarays@gmail.com','https://sites.google.com/site/karavansarays/home','95.43.60.205','2011-02-11 10:05:41','2011-02-11 08:05:41','If it would make you feel better about little kids speaking Bulgarian....well, my partner feels very much the same when our little daughter comes back from nursery and starts talking to him in Bulgarian, it does take some time for her to switch to English and only after she has been reminded at least 10 times to do it. Gary finds it funny and annoying in the same time when he tries really hard to put a sentence together and then she repeats it with a smile on her face in a matter of 2 seconds:)))',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(4126,4249,'Alexander','perpeliev@gmail.com','','87.120.219.208','2011-01-26 13:33:19','2011-01-26 11:33:19','Каролин,\r\nАз съм авторът на текста на този филм. Мисля, че си малко жестока и саркастична към нас - но от друга страна, щом сме успели да те накараме да го гледаш, а след това и да го коментираш - значи сме си свършили работата...\r\nБлагодаря ти. По-добре негативни коментари, отколкото безразличие!\r\nЖелая ти хубав ден!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(4127,4249,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.185','2011-01-26 14:09:59','2011-01-26 12:09:59','I watched it few days ago and I\'m pretty OK with it. Granted, I don\'t expect much from a \"come and see us\" video. Or maybe it helped that the last video a Brit did in Sofia that I watched was about gypsy thieves and clans and featured shots of the Sofia centre under rather Turkish music. \r\nIt\'s not TV but still, without the cliches I don\'t think it woul\'ve gotten made or that popular. And the \"you can see it in one hour\" I take as a regular sales pitch, having nothing to do with the truth and saying  it won\'t take too much of your oh-so-valuable time. \r\n\"Hasn\'t grown old\" is indeed a reference to the city motto.\r\nAnd I don\'t get it - what\'s wrong with Constantine loving Serdica? He kinda did, and not just in words. More than our current government does, anyway :P\r\n\r\nI think the idea of you doing a video log is quite good. Wether it\'s of your travels around the country or abroad or just in Sofia. Next time you walk around and notice or think of something that you\'d want to write in your blog, take out your camera and tell it to lens :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4128,4249,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-26 14:24:29','2011-01-26 12:24:29','@Bobby For the record, I think this great that Constantin loved Serdica.  It also just strikes me as such a funny fact to toss into the video. This said, it sets a great precedence for me--I mean I am following in great footsteps.  At the same time, the fact that  Constantin the Great was in love with Serdica also seems like something that would be equally at home on a tourist tee-shirt with a picture of Constantin\'s face and the caption: He loved Serdica & I love Sofia.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4127,1),(4129,4249,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-26 14:29:47','2011-01-26 12:29:47','I can\'t more. I spent my Tuesday arguing with people who loved the video...\r\nFirst of all, it illustrates a big palette of Bulgarian complexes. We invented the computer and we are the cleverest and we are the strongest but then we are always f***ed. And BTW, Sofia is the second oldest city in Europe. Uh, no, capital. Uh, no, actually, the second oldest city, which is a capital NOW. But they don\'t mention this twist of the facts, that I\'d call deception. And the dude who moved the Roman capital to Constantinople actually wanted to move it here. Not that we can prove it, but we are so much cooler, he definitely did want that. BTW his favourite horse was called Trixie. True story! Cherni Vrah is \"almost as high\" as Olympus...\r\nIn Ruse we have a saying that people from Sofia are such provincialists, that they think Vitosha is \"the highest\" and Iskar is \"the deepest\". They don\'t see anything further than that because, you know, Sofia is the s*it, who cares about anything else. Yeah, abroad (in the amazing CHUZHBINA which is something mystical for Bulgarians because apparently there is milk and honey in the streets) there is some cool stuff, but anyway, abroad is soooo faaaaaar and it\'s beyond the border, and we all know borders are a HUUUUUUGE problem and there we all feel like gypsies because we are the greatest but no one respects us and we are soooo poooor and God hates us although we once had 3 seas. It\'s 3 seas, serious stuff! So, we gotta build 3 highways for Sofians to get to the seaside because this is what infrastructure is for and we don\'t care someone may want to produce something and export it on these highways because no one would want to buy Bulgarian stuff anyway. Plus, if he has money to export, he can build his own highway. MUST BUILD MAGISTRALA TO SEASIDE FOR PEOPLE FROM SOFIA!\r\nThen the whole thing goes on talking how important it is that some city is God-chosen to be a capital. Woo-hoo a ca-pi-tal. It\'s not a game, it\'s serious - it\'s a ca-pi-tal.\r\nAnd my favourite part is how they show that they have trams. 5-6 times during the video you see the damn TRAMS and you think - WOW, Sofia must be so awesome, they have TRAMS there! No other Bulgarian city has trams and the author of the video was apparently thinking \"In your face, cultureless provincialists, you don\'t have TRAMS!\" Surprisingly for me, they didn\'t show an escalator.\r\nApparently, this is a promotional video for Sofia to become Cultural Capital of Europe 2019. But for 2019 it\'s Bulgaria\'s turn anyways, so all these lies and deceptions and misconceptions are aimed against the other Bulgarian cities that are applying for Cultural Capital: Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas and Ruse.\r\nMy personal favourite is Plovdiv, which happens to be about 6000 years old, has a Greek amphitheatre that is still used, has a whole \"old city\" and has a lot to offer. Furthermore, it\'s not famous, so it has a lot to win from being Cultural Capital of Europe 2019, as opposed to Sofia which will win nothing.\r\nVarna is famous anyway, they get many tourists. And I am not sure they have a lot of culture. Burgas\' application made me laugh. These guys really don\'t know when to keep quiet. And my love Ruse is not in its shiniest moment, although there are 7-8 years till 2019 and if the economy goes well, who knows?\r\n\r\nThis happened in my head while I was watching. BTW, Walla Walla sounds like Baden-Baden. :D',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',0,0),(4130,4249,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-26 14:39:08','2011-01-26 12:39:08','Oh, you wrote the script? You mean - these convincing people in the video were not spontaneously speaking out of their vast knowledge of history and geography but they were just reciting a script? That\'s such a disappointing surprise!\r\nSo you intentionally lied and deceived, it did not just happen...',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',4126,0),(4132,4249,'Garth','ggreenwell@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-01-26 15:41:55','2011-01-26 13:41:55','@TAfrikanski: I like Sofia a lot, but I think I like your post more.  Thanks for making me laugh in my classroom, where I am trapped during our грипна ваканция, along with Carolyn, whose classroom is down the hall. @Carolyn: I admire your restraint in responding to abusive blog posts.  @logitech: Преди да гововиш такива глупости, трябва да прочетеш по-внимателно този блог, където почти всеки ден Каролин показва колко обича София.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4133,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-26 15:45:41','2011-01-26 13:45:41','Garth I see your Bulgarian is already excellent. :)\r\nПоздрави - Апостол :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4132,0),(4134,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-26 15:47:51','2011-01-26 13:47:51','Great post. :) Made me laugh and read it with pleasure. \r\nI\'m rooting for Ruse! It\'s a great city which has huge potential. I hope I can visit it again in the spring because one weekend wasn\'t enough for all the great things to see there.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4129,0),(4135,4249,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-26 16:36:48','2011-01-26 14:36:48','Thank you for the sense of humour when reading. I was afraid I would get angry responses from short-sighted people. Again.\r\nOn a remotely related note, I believe that the English word acquaintances should be popularized. I don\'t want to call them friends but it feels strange to call them acquaintances because it\'s one of those words you don\'t use.\r\nThank you for the nice words about Ruse. However, I\'d say that we do not deserve the title because we are not making any effort. It\'s a city with golden potential and it\'s doing nothing (or too little, nothing it too strictly defined ;)) to make something out of it. It\'s a shame that I would not know where to take you if you came to visit me in Ruse. :)\r\n@Garth - Why do you have to stay at work during the грипна? This is... sad. :) But I\'ve also always been amazed how Carolyn does not seem to be willing to choke some of the above-mentioned \"short-sighted people\".',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',4134,0),(4136,4249,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.185','2011-01-26 16:37:12','2011-01-26 14:37:12','Ah, yes, I see what you mean now. Though I doubt any Bulgarian would put that on a tourist T-shirt. We don\'t have that many tourist designs (you\'ve probably seen them all in the underpasses near the Presidency and Sheraton) especially ones specific to Sofia. If we made more, there\'d be other stuff to put on them, so basically - Constantine isn\'t good enough for a T-shirt :D\r\nAnd I get why the fact-tossing would seem odd to you. I\'ve just grown accustomed to it. Maybe I can explain. That \"don\'t dismiss us\" thing you mentioned above is shared by Bulgarians as a whole, which you may have noticed. Because we were kinda dismissed historically and culturally during Turkish and Communist times. Now there\'s this urge to bring that history and culture to the attention of everyone, be it other Buglarians or the big wide world out there. Because we are hearing all the stories of Roman conquests, Arthur\'s knights, the fierce vikings, Pearl Harbour and D-Day, cowboys and indians, ninja and samurai and other things all over the globe, that are part of popular knowledge. And it came kind of natural to want to say \"Hey, that\'s awesome, but look, we have some cool stuff too. Not as cool as yours, but still.\" And humble as I am, sometimes... sometimes it really is as cool. The less organised form of this is blurting out facts like this, usually relating with something more popular for comparison (i.e. that Eiffel Tower thing). It\'s a sort of cherry-picking to get someone to sit and eat some more of the cake. I don\'t really know if it\'s working, and I imagine it can get pretty annoying at some point. But this way of \"quick advertising\" is getting more and more popular, because stuff gets destroyed or forgotten. (Here\'s me doing it :P) Like the hotel built on top of the largest Roman amphitheater on the Balkans or the wonderful wooden house in the park, which is now a naked ruin, as the ornaments from there now grace a \"palace\" at the seaside.\r\nConsidering the script is written by a Bulgarian, such mentions are to be expected.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4128,0),(7066,4917,'llcoolv','vassil100@gmail.com','','92.247.231.177','2011-05-18 02:53:50','2011-05-18 00:53:50','Karolina, this is another world-wide problem - the contracts are long-term (to the advantage of the network) and automatically renewable. I have had a similar problem when moving from Bulgaria to Germany and (ridiculously, but not for me) when moving back from DE to BG. For M-tel, the lowest cost/harm solution is to skip paying 3 monthly taxes, which invalidates your contract and then pay them right after your contract is cut, but before they report you to the credit register or sue you. Usually, you would have more than enough time between these two events, but it would be best if you consult (or have a friend do it) with an M-tel employee - that\'s where I learnt that \'secret\'. Unfortunately getting out of O2-DE is not that easy at all...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24','',6991,0),(4723,4304,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-02-11 09:43:37','2011-02-11 07:43:37','I spent half of the morning taking pictures of snowdrops. :) It looks like spring is here but Im afraid winter is bound to come back..',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(5291,4370,'Aunt Jane','jlaaker@centurytel.net','','98.125.213.204','2011-02-27 19:55:53','2011-02-27 17:55:53','Funny thing I went to the dentist this week also!!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; FunWebProducts; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; im_en_0002)','',0,0),(5292,4378,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-02-27 20:24:19','2011-02-27 18:24:19','I liked very much the original caption of this picture: reservoir cats :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(4141,4249,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-01-26 18:54:34','2011-01-26 16:54:34','Bravo @TAfricanski :)\r\nI wouldn\'t have had the time to write such a long debunking comment about the greatness of Sofia, but I have the time to summarize in one sentence.\r\nSofia\'s beauty is appreciated much like your kid\'s first poop, you may like to think it\'s beautiful and healthy, but to anyone else it may stink a bit :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(7065,4917,'llcoolv','vassil100@gmail.com','','92.247.231.177','2011-05-18 02:43:39','2011-05-18 00:43:39','In fact what you have experienced would have been even worse in the states - for an expensive smartphone subsidized by a plan there, they would have checked not only the validity of your residence permit/id card, but also your credit history :) Telcos are the new nazis and that\'s it - it\'s like that all over the world and we cannot really do much about it. In some European countries the mobile networks are lobbying hard for allowing people to use mobile phones while driving, thus putting negligible increase in profit ahead of human lives/health.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24','',0,0),(4143,4249,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2011-01-26 19:36:04','2011-01-26 17:36:04','I\'m surprised by old the drama this silly video caused. Yes, Sofia is not Paris or New York and will never be - bu that is OK, it doesn\'t have to. It doesn\'t mean that it can\'t be Europe\'s cultural capital in 2019. And I\'m glad to see someone already  is making some efforts in that direction (I\'ll be happier if they become more serious and professional by 2019) than doing everything in the last moment like usual.\r\nTAfricanski, I\'m completely aware of Sofia\'s disadvantages, but what makes a city interesting is more than a handful of nice buildings and pleasant cafes packed with herds of long legged chalga girls. There are many details that add to the overall experience of the city - details that just some \"short sighted\" people and Carolyn manage to notice.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4144,4249,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2011-01-26 19:37:17','2011-01-26 17:37:17','Unfortunately, everyone is right.  The video is slow and awkward, the music choice odd and repetitive, but – oh, Sophia is so lovely!  Since I do not expect to visit and have seen nothing but still photos of the city, it was good to catch sight of the city\'s prime buildings in a somewhat more animated view. History does interest me.  Since I have not studied Bulgaria or read much about it, Sophia\'s rich traditions and multicultural heritage was news to me.  In the end, it was the architecture alone which kept me watching. Sophians should be justly proud of their city; it is gracious and appealing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(6802,4855,'Richard','rspacer@yahoo.com','','98.150.145.243','2011-05-02 09:43:26','2011-05-02 07:43:26','The nacho party looks great Carolyn!\r\n\r\nThe first and only time I was in Bulgaria was August 4, 1988 after I took the train from Athens to Sofia. After a very intense border crossing  at Kulata where Bulgarian border guards in fatigues searched every inch of the train with a German Shephard, including lifting the cushions off the seats and popping the ceiling tiles looking for stowaway returning Bulgarians, I arrived in Sofia around eight in the evening looking for a meal. I was only able to find one place, and that place was ready to close. I got the last sausage and cabbage dish and a couple of glasses of red wine. The sausage was a small six inch swirl of burned meat. The next day was better as I found 20 stotikni hamburgers at a stand-up cafe along one of the streets with yellow bricks. Apparently in 1988 if you did not know some Bulgarians, the only real meal option for foreigners was the Sheraton. For USD$20. on my last night I treated myself to a nice, but standard, American meal. \r\n\r\nIn 1988 there were very few shops in Sofia as you would see today. Almost no traffic was in the streets or squares. Very few people had cars. No litter or cigarette butts was found in the street.\r\n\r\nYou are lucky to be there today with nachos, of all things!\r\n\r\nWhat are the opportunities for teaching English there? Can university-age Bulgarians afford private lessons? Is there demand in the corporte sector? \r\n\r\nIf I were to teach there, I think I would prefer Varna or Burgas. I like to be on the water, especially for the summer. Both seem like large population centers with universities. Do you know about ESL opportunities in either?\r\n\r\nThanks for your blog and be happy it is not 1988.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.4; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-us; MSNc00)','',0,0),(4148,4249,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-26 20:39:03','2011-01-26 18:39:03','I have to admit that chalga girls do manage to attract my interest, no matter how much I try to pretend I am strong and wise. :D\r\nDo not put Carolyn and the \"short sighted\" people in the same boat. And don\'t put people who like Sofia and the \"short sighted\" people in the same boat, either. I hate some aspects of the city and like others. Short sighted people go with the crowd and feed you clichés.\r\nI\'d love to have the opportunity to see some more of the details you were talking about.\r\nBut still, for 2019 I\'d rather see Plovdiv. ;)',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',4143,0),(7699,5083,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-06-22 09:51:51','2011-06-22 07:51:51','The name of the town is Якоруда :)\r\n\r\nAnd I was so sure that this post will also mention how everyone kept recommending ракия to improve your Bulgarian :D',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1','',0,0),(4150,4249,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsnbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2011-01-26 22:00:40','2011-01-26 20:00:40','WOW! I have GOT to go and watch this video. It must truly be something to elicit all these responses. Additionally, I love the idea of a Bulgaria video blog (vlog). I would definitely follow something like if it had a travel/historical/cultural slant.  I am especially interested in the travel and cultural exploration opportunities to be had in Bulgaria and fully plan on taking advantage of them upon my move to BG later this year. \r\n\r\nAs some others have said, if we don\'t like the content, quality, or narrative of the media available, perhaps we should create our own. I would love to do just that. Looks like I need to buy a video camera and start a YouTube channel! \r\n\r\nLastly, I agree with TAfricanski, Plovidv is, by far, my favorite. But I\'ve seen very little of Sofia, so that may change!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',0,0),(4151,4249,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsnbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2011-01-26 22:01:02','2011-01-26 20:01:02','Sorry, *Plovdiv',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',4150,0),(6831,4874,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-05-04 11:13:43','2011-05-04 09:13:43','I was surprised by the fact that \"Thousands of Americans celebrate Osama bin Laden\'s death\" which brought me to the questions \"Do most of the Americans believe in everything said by the government?\" and \"Does the fact that people believe in something which is hardly provable makes them easy to be manipulated?\". Then I came upon this joke: \"Osama Bin Laden has just announced on Al Jazeera TV that he was killed\" :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 GTB7.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(8453,5288,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','89.215.157.26','2011-07-25 13:04:22','2011-07-25 11:04:22','The good news is that Walla Walla won\'t be struck by the financial crisis with so many early risers. \r\n\r\nThe bad news is that the party does not meet South European party standards ;-)\r\n\r\nThis cannot be called night-life, I suppose. The sun is quite high at the end of dinner.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.124 Safari/534.30','',0,0),(5307,4383,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-02-28 09:29:17','2011-02-28 07:29:17','I looked ath the site, but also couldn\'t find any info about English subtitles. So probably the easiest way to find out is to call and ask. Same goes fot Tilt. \r\nI must say, I\'m quite skeptical of that movie. They\'re still trying too hard to make a new film, while following the old guidebooks. In the trailer I could practically hear the commas in the script. And one was in the wrong place, even. But I\'ll give it a chance.\r\nIf you want to know how to swear, just say the word. While we can be very inventive in this area, most Bulgarians stick to the basics, which are rather easy. But slang - even I won\'t teach that perversion of language.:P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',0,0),(5309,4383,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-02-28 11:31:14','2011-02-28 09:31:14','Watch some Bulgarian movies, you\'ll learn how to swear. Christ, that was the first thing I learnt how to do in English in the English Language School. It was written on the wall. \r\n\r\nI\'ve heard good things about both of these films.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(5748,4553,'o.l.','olix@seznam.sk','','212.36.9.178','2011-03-17 13:20:11','2011-03-17 11:20:11','If you\'re in touch with other foreigners who\'d like to practice their Bulgarian, why don\'t you organize a Bulgarian speaking club? You could have meetings once or twice a week, in cafes, or somebody\'s home, and try to speak as much Bulgarian as possible. Maybe even invite a Bulgarian or two to help you all out if you get stuck with a particularly difficult conjugation :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15','',0,0),(5311,4383,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-02-28 12:13:15','2011-02-28 10:13:15','Did you watch that DVD with some Bulgarian movies I gave you before? If not you must do :) Besides they all have subtitles.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(7100,4923,'Shannon','shannon@bendell.ca','http://www.livinginthegray.com','70.76.78.175','2011-05-19 05:39:56','2011-05-19 03:39:56','Obviously I have no advice regarding actual practical ways to get involved and practice the language in Sofia, however in my experience with language it has definitely proven true that the only way to REALLY learn it is total immersion where English just isn\'t an option. It\'s very, very hard to immerse oneself when you have a lot of English-speaking friends and colleagues (and for you, students!), but if you are open to it, make a pact with your friends who speak English that you are only going ot speak Bulgarian to one another, or to your Bulgarian-speaking friends, that they will speak Bulgarian to you as much as possible and not let you off the hook!  Good luck! It\'s a brave thing that you\'re doing! I think you will see some real results! :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24','',0,0),(5315,4383,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-02-28 14:44:21','2011-02-28 12:44:21','I can help with the swearing lessons!!! Just holla at me when ya think it\'s time :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(6817,4874,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.187.23','2011-05-03 19:27:52','2011-05-03 17:27:52','Your dAd and I have been pondering this Osama bin Laden thing too.  It seems to carry a lot of dramatic language, yet the fact of it doesn\'t seem to have much impact in our lives here in Walla Walla. Inevitable may not be the word I\'d use.  Perhaps anticlimactic fits.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(5317,4383,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.170','2011-02-28 17:28:17','2011-02-28 15:28:17','Carolyn, you might be interested to know that brain science suggests that swearing comes from a different part of the brain than usual language.  Apparently it has some relationship to the area of the brain where barking in dogs originates!  So now, I always think of it as barking, not swearing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(6818,4855,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.201','2011-05-03 20:20:55','2011-05-03 18:20:55','Congratulations! Nothing wrong with honorary mentions. I\'m no nachos expert (FSM knows I\'ve only had nachos once), but yours look and sound quite tasty. \r\nAnd that photo of the judge is a great shot - dude looks like he\'s selling something no government would ever license :D',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17','',0,0),(5319,4383,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-02-28 21:06:27','2011-02-28 19:06:27','Actually I don\'t believe this is true. There\'s nothing about this in this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct\r\n \r\nSlang just like any other dialect is basicly another system of rules - another type of grammar with its vocabulary. There are parts in Bulgaria where the usage of excessive swearing is part of the local way of talking. I\'m told that this is also quite common in Serbia and Greece.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',5317,0),(7098,4935,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.101','2011-05-19 00:53:13','2011-05-18 22:53:13','Darn, I\'m a bit late... oh, wait, I\'m not - it\'s still your birthday in Walla Walla :)\r\nHappy birthday! Live long and prosper! May you find new reasons to smile every day and may your food never stick to the cooking container!\r\n\r\nThat last cupcake looks like a squinting man with his tongue out. With a pile of medicine on his head. :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16','',0,0),(6820,4874,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.201','2011-05-03 21:18:59','2011-05-03 19:18:59','The girl marries the prince and the bad guy is dead - it was a Disney weekend. \r\nWell, citing newspapers isn\'t that nerdy. Citing science papers, on the other hand...\r\nSpeaking of which, if I read an article saying sugar is toxic, I\'d go look for the actual paper of the research that has proven this. End I\'d bet my fluffy slippers it\'d say something completely different. Because that\'s what I\'m used to here - sadly this grotesque skewing of the facts and this churnalism is nigh ubiquitous, especially concerning online news sources. Just yesterday I had to explain to a friend that the copy-pasted article about how \"EU bans our herbs!\" is utter bollocks. Even phrases like \"Big Pharma finally won\" and (no joke) \"It\'s a genocide, planned by the EU\" didn\'t tip her off, because that article was pretty much everywhere. Sure enough, a quick browse through the most recent EU directives and a google search showed there\'s no such thing. Or how two weeks ago Borissov announced Bulgaria will start the process of joining the European Space Agency (which even Romania joined). Quick Bulgaria space facts - sixth in the world with own astronaut, third after USA and USSR to produce own space food. So this gets next to no coverage, while a politician\'s argument with the press goes viral. Now top that with the pathetic, disappointing and outright disgusting TV coverage of the wedding. Keeping current in Bulgaria isn\'t such a good idea. I prefer to get my headaches elsewhere...\r\nBoy, that was such a negative post. So I\'ll end by saying again - we may be joining the ESA!! *fingers crossed*',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17','',0,0),(5749,4558,'Caroline','cidob1@student.monash.edu.au','','122.108.22.193','2011-03-17 14:02:01','2011-03-17 12:02:01','Hi Karolinka,\r\n\r\nFirstly, I would like to preface by saying that I have just stumbled across your blog and love the wide variety of topics you cover!!\r\n\r\nI am compelled to comment on your post, not because I can offer any words of wisdom (sorry!!) but to empathise....I too am struggling with learning a language... the way I described it was two steps forward, eight steps back.  SO very frustating when I can understand some things, but once I switch over to a radio broadcast, forget it.  I want to go beyond weather, colours, fruits and vegetables, but this is difficult...no matter how much I read/watch movies etc....GOOD LUCK!!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; eSobiSubscriber 2.0.4.16; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(5341,4383,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.170','2011-03-01 17:22:56','2011-03-01 15:22:56','You have a good point there, Helen.  I hadn\'t thought about using swear words as conversational words.   Over time, of course, they will loose their swear word designation and become everyday words thus new swear words will evolve to replace them.  Humans seem to need a stock of swear words that meet the emotional need to swear.  Who knows, maybe dogs do too!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',5337,0),(5342,4390,'i','ivanmanolov@yahoo.com','','24.23.251.90','2011-03-01 17:55:36','2011-03-01 15:55:36','there is a justin bieber martenitsa? eewwww',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5344,4390,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-03-01 18:07:59','2011-03-01 16:07:59','@i No. There\'s not one. Well not one that I could find. Granted I didn\'t look that hard but really a Justin Bieber martenitsa would really be the best representation of the clash between Buglarian and American culture. I mean Barbie has her own martenitsa why not Justin? <em>Or me!? </em>',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5342,1),(4176,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-27 13:40:37','2011-01-27 11:40:37','Ha :-) Now I have a list of the first dozen of people who`ll get plain tickets fro me when i win the lottery :)\r\nDont you feel sorry for yourself living in a country/city you despise so much? Please, please go away.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4177,4249,'Това само в България може да стане &laquo; Жълтурчето','','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/review-2/','76.74.248.208','2011-01-27 14:20:35','2011-01-27 12:20:35','[...] България в 30 минути не се събира. А ето и какво мислят разни хора. На тях сърце им дава да се шегуват със страната [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library','pingback',0,0),(4178,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-27 15:02:30','2011-01-27 13:02:30','Me again, sorry for the poor grammar - that`s what happens when I go crazy and I do go crazy when I`m being offended.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4179,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-27 15:17:09','2011-01-27 13:17:09','Светлина - please try and read everything here again. Because it\'s obvious that you didn\'t understand any of us and what we were trying to say. \r\nIt\'s sad that you read some criticism and think that\'s hate. Noone here said they hate Sofia or Bulgaria. \r\nYeah, some of us may hate the video. And so what? Are we obliged to like each and every video? Are we not allowed to have opinions and to expres them? Are we allowed to have only positive comments?\r\nI\'ll say it again - your interpretation of our posts is your problem. You see here something that\'s not here.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4176,0),(4180,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-27 15:17:54','2011-01-27 13:17:54','And you are offended from? What and who? Please, share with us. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4178,0),(4181,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-27 15:55:22','2011-01-27 13:55:22','Follow the links if you can. And buy a mirror if you dare :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4180,0),(4182,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-27 15:57:50','2011-01-27 13:57:50','I understand hate. I dont understand stupidity.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4179,0),(7972,5168,'Amy','allindqu@yahoo.com','','199.17.55.135','2011-07-07 17:53:43','2011-07-07 15:53:43','Hello! \r\nI\'ve been following your blog ever since I found out that I received a Fulbright ETA in Burgas for this coming school year.  Reading through it has been very enlightening and I feel just a little more prepared to take on this venture.  :)  Congratulations on your accomplishments - 3 years, wow! - and I really appreciate your insights and experiences...I think you\'re inspiring me to become a blogger as well.  \r\nTake care,\r\nAmy L.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1','',0,0),(4187,4249,'Diana','dianamjr@yahoo.co.uk','','128.173.232.214','2011-01-27 17:17:49','2011-01-27 15:17:49','It will never cease to amaze me that some high school dropout located in a town of 5,000 people somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the U.S., who can hardly write grammatically correct in his or her own language, let alone to speak foreign languages, and who has never been anywhere but the closest \"big city\" of let\'s say 250,000 people, still proudly says that the best thing in the world is America and being American, but the Bulgarians find it so hard to appreciate a country and heritage of more than 1,300 years. If one lacks self-respect and pride, one cannot expect respect from others.  We are so eager to tell the world how ugly and bad Sofia is, and how the other European capitals are so much better; then it should not come as a surprise that foreigners would prefer to go and see indeed these other European capitals and dismiss Bulgaria as a place with nothing to see. It is not what one has that is important; it is what one does with it that matters.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5746,4546,'Slavo','slavo.ing@gmail.com','http://www.slavoingilizov.com','82.103.64.62','2011-03-17 11:54:22','2011-03-17 09:54:22','@Galarad - The needs you have would be better met with a checking account, not a credit card. If you want recurring payments, there\'s no need for a card, only an account. I don\'t think this is the reason people don\'t use credit cards, nor is the 40 leva fee.\r\n\r\nIt\'s the lack of any convenience and the lack of education. Bulgarians are (as a whole) extremely uneducated about how finances work. Age is also a big factor, as Karolinka guessed. My grandma gets her pension (around 200 leva) in the post office. I would assure you that you\'d need a lot of time to teach her how an ATM and a card works. I have friends in small towns getting around 400 leva salaries. Why would they need any card when they can get their whole salary in a single withdrawal? It\'s inconvenient.\r\n\r\nSad, but true.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.134 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(4191,4249,'mirror','deida@abv.bg','','82.199.198.203','2011-01-27 21:21:29','2011-01-27 19:21:29','Karolinka, \r\nDespite how much you like Sofia and Bulgaria and wanna stay here longer, I suggest you\'ll feel better somewhere else. Somewhere \"fresh and trendy\" with less historical ambience, аs your friend kindly writed. I\'ll feel better too. Sometimes it takes huge amount of knowledge, wisdom and rich cultural and historical background to understand foreign text, book, video, ect. Оbviously you don\'t have it. So, please, do not feel free to make opinions for something you don\'t understand and will never be able to. At least not here. Go home, leave us \"here to drink our Rakiya\". And if you take your friends with you, \"everything will be better\". Please.\r\nP.S. Don\'t excuse my awful english. I don\'t need to know it, I know Bulgarian perfectly, and that\'s enough for me.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(5744,4546,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','78.40.137.113','2011-03-17 08:59:51','2011-03-17 06:59:51','It is no wonder people don\'t like credit cards. The banks require 40 leva per year as a tax to give you the card with the lowest limit and then you must pay a tax for each cache withdraw from the card. \r\n\r\nBut the worse is - you can\'t transfer money from your card to your other bank accounts. You must use it only for paying for goods and for withdrawing money. I asked if I have recurring payments for leasing can I put some auto payment each month from my card and the response was that I must go each month with my card in hand to some place where the leasing company have set a payment terminal and pay. Big convenience.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.133 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(6168,4674,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.52.224','2011-04-02 13:55:00','2011-04-02 11:55:00','Bulgarians are not \'\'obliged\" to like Bulgarian films, they are just happy of the fact that BG films are produced at all. But I\'m not impressed with them either - same plots, same actors, same situations, over and over again. Are those topics really that important for us, or someone just told us we have to dig them - I don\'t know, but I\'m sure there are enough gifted people who can offer something really creative and exciting, if given the chance. I haven\'t discussed this topic before, so I really don\'t know what others think - that\'s just my personal opinion.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0','',0,0),(5756,4558,'Petya','petya.kirilova@gmail.com','http://howtomarryabulgarian.com','74.242.163.175','2011-03-17 17:24:41','2011-03-17 15:24:41','I remember that feeling well from my first year of college in the States. I had been the best English student in my high-school class and I was in total shock when I came to Tennessee and couldn\'t say a whole lot. I was fine in class and I did my school-work well but I was very unprepared to interact with peers. Chinese history: no biggie. Planning a dorm-party on a Friday night: bring out the dictionary! \r\n\r\nNow I wish I hadn\'t been so hard on myself and I REALLY wish I had known that all of a sound it would be just fine. I am not sure how it happened, but one day I couldn\'t speak much English and the next day I could.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15','',0,0),(5328,4383,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.170','2011-03-01 04:13:49','2011-03-01 02:13:49','I have read Pinker\'s \"Language Instinct\" and several other of his books as well.  We agree, it\'s a great book and so well written, but I don\'t recall anything like what I mention above included in any of them, although, it\'s been five or six years or so since I read them.  You are also right, Pinker is a well-regarded scientist, and my source is, well, a well-regarded author, but no scientist.  My reference is a human interest, light-hearted story on National Public Radio (NPR) last week which can be found at this URL: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/07/133571685/Our-Love-Affair-With-Euphemisms.  In it Ralph Keyes, author of \"Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms\" answers a question with this comment, \"It\'s well-known that some people who suffer certain kinds of stroke lose their ability to speak, but they don\'t lose their ability to curse. And this has led linguistic researchers to conclude that swearing comes from a very primitive part of our brain and almost as not language at all. It\'s closer, say, to a dog\'s barking than to actual sophisticated conversation.\"  There is more, but this is the core of the idea.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',5319,0),(4197,4249,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.223.65','2011-01-28 05:15:55','2011-01-28 03:15:55','Carolyn, I watched the video. It is, as you said, over the top and a bit silly (I thought I would scream if they showed the Trams one more time!). Again, I cannot believe how your original post (which is clearly critical of the video itself, NOT Sofia or Bulgaria) could elicit such comments; some of which are downright idiotic.  Did some of these people even bother to read what you wrote?\r\n\r\nI agree with @Garth and also commend you on your restraint in responding to some people\'s (undeserved) criticism and obvious lack of class. Unfortunately, I would not be able to show the same restraint, but I\'m just a fiery redhead like that. I have read and re-read your original post and the comments that followed. I simply do not understand how it can go from a quick video review on your part to a full fledged defense of a nation and invitation to see yourself out of the country on the part of some overzealous readers. You stated right off the bat that you like Sofia and Bulgaria. However, even if you didn\'t, this is YOUR blog and you can express whatever views YOU wish, and I suppose deal with the comments that follow. Perhaps @logitech, @Светлина, and @mirror do not understand the concept of sarcasm and mistook a simple video review for a Bulgaria bashing. That\'s their problem. Or perhaps the rest of us simply don\'t possess the \"huge amount of knowledge, wisdom and rich cultural and historical background to understand foreign text, book, video\" that they clearly possess in spades (I should point out that this is sarcasm, in case they confuse that with a genuine compliment). I am all for constructive criticism, meaningful dialogue and a sharing of opinions. I am not, however, all for a showering of undeserved and downright confusing diatribes on why you are (and the rest of us who dare to say a negative word about Bulgaria, be it sarcastic or not) such a terrible person who has no right to share an opinion (AGAIN, ON A MOVIE, NOT A NATION!!). All this has made me a bit terrified to move to Bulgaria. I am an opinionated person myself and will freely express my personal views on any subject that happens to strike my fancy, including *shudder* Bulgaria. If people react like they have to you, I may not be able to keep my cool. I guess it\'s just the bossy and entitled American in me.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(7136,4929,'Robyn','robyndyanrusso@gmail.com','http://misplacedyinzer.wordpress.com/','98.233.48.146','2011-05-20 03:24:21','2011-05-20 01:24:21','LOVE it. \r\n\r\nAlso taught that line in Gatsby today. Long live Nick Carraway!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17','',0,0),(5753,4558,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','64.83.253.30','2011-03-17 15:28:11','2011-03-17 13:28:11','Immersion.  Three weeks with a family who speak no English.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010111021 Camino/2.0.6 (like Firefox/3.0.19)','',0,0),(5334,4390,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-03-01 10:13:21','2011-03-01 08:13:21','Честита Баба Марта, Каролинке!\r\nThere\'s no particular \"etiquette\" with martenitsi. And it\'s not realy a gift, you\'re not giving people a martenitsa to have. It\'s a longevity and happiness charm, a ward against bad stuff. So it doesn\'t matter if it\'s an old martenitsa (though you should\'ve put those on a blossoming tree or under a rock). What\'s important is not the physical thing, but the effect and the gesture. That\'s why you should tie or pin them on people and not just hand it over. Though I imagine with your students that could take a while :)\r\nOn March 1st and the next several days I walk around with some extra martenitsi in my pocket, in case I meet someone I wasn\'t expecting to. There\'s no reason not to tie a martenitsa on someone you know. But you\'re not obliged to, because it\'s pretty certain they already have several. The idea is that by the end of the day everyone and their dog (literally) should have a piece of red and white string for health, long life, happiness, unity, good fortune and nice weather in March.\r\n\r\nI remember last year when you wrote there are Chinese martenitsi being sold. I was surprised and this year apparently it\'s worse. From what I\'ve seen, there are four types of martenitsi - proper martenitsi, incl. Pijo and Penda (not Piju and Panda :Р), weird martenitsi, martenitsi that are looking at weird in the rear-view mirror and martenitsi that are starting to be misguided.\r\n\r\nI like your rule about bying - I think I follow it too.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',0,0),(7135,4923,'Robyn','robyndyanrusso@gmail.com','http://misplacedyinzer.wordpress.com/','98.233.48.146','2011-05-20 03:22:48','2011-05-20 01:22:48','I vote for a village or a farm. C\'mon, you can grow something!\r\n\r\nMiss you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17','',0,0),(4203,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-28 09:35:38','2011-01-28 07:35:38','People here react just like this :)\r\nIf you listened to the video and did not count the trams you`d know that we have the experience, guts and right to speak up whatever we think. Coming here is not an exotic vacation, it`s breaking into our lives and I think you should consider it more carefully. You may not be able to handle the Balkan life style and temper.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4197,0),(4204,4257,'Andreytcho','blog@andreytcho.com','http://andreytcho.com','15.203.233.78','2011-01-28 11:49:55','2011-01-28 09:49:55','I vote for a picture of you with \"I *heart* Sofia\" t-shirt, otherwise I just don\'t believe it :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4205,4257,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-28 12:37:56','2011-01-28 10:37:56','I would say it again - I think that you take that line rather too literally. \r\nBut everyone has their stuff - in that case reading too many cheesy tourist guides. Commenters also have their stuff and sometimes they overreact and perceive insults where there are none. \r\nThat\'s a wonderful review of Sofia and Bulgaria and I thank you for taking the time to write it (and feeling the need to do so) but I want to assure you that nothing in your previous post read like: I dislike Sofia. It was more than clear that you disliked the video.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',0,0),(4207,4249,'onetrickpony','ts.blagoeva@gmail.com','','62.198.103.236','2011-01-28 13:23:01','2011-01-28 11:23:01','Светлина, Please get a life, would you....',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4203,0),(4209,4249,'Apcho','apostol_tolev@yahoo.com','','92.247.227.47','2011-01-28 14:46:55','2011-01-28 12:46:55','I\'m not sure if the video will put someone off from visiting Sofia. But people like you will. You have no manners and you make the myth of the bulgarian hospitality just that - a myth.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4203,0),(4210,4249,'Amanda','amandasteinhauer@gmail.com','','74.142.161.40','2011-01-28 15:53:17','2011-01-28 13:53:17','It always amazes me how people get so offended at any slight they perceive against their country and then somehow think it\'s appropriate to rip apart a country that they do not know themselves. How is that any different? Or any more appropriate? \r\nSo many people have commented because they felt that you were attacking Bulgaria and then they proceeded to attack the United States. They never stopped to actually read what you wrote (you DON\'T LIKE the VIDEO but, you LOVE Sofia and BULGARIA) and instead just decided to rip on you and your country of origin?\r\nHow does that make them any more culturally competent or any way superior to you? It just shows that they are as ignorant and racist as they (very mistakenly) thought you were.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8','',0,0),(4211,4257,'whatever','manmotte@abv.bg','','85.187.99.14','2011-01-28 15:57:46','2011-01-28 13:57:46',':@\"Sure, parts of Sofia aren’t outwardly as beautiful as Paris as the Paris of our dreams/memories but parts of Paris aren’t that outwardly beautiful either.\"\r\n\r\n((bow)) ((bow)) ((bow)) !',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5','',0,0),(4212,4249,'mirror','deida@abv.bg','','82.199.198.203','2011-01-28 16:26:09','2011-01-28 14:26:09','\"It always amazes me how people get so offended at any slight they perceive against their country\" - Amanda, if I come to your house and start making statements of your mom\'s attitude being ridiculous, how would you react? I hope you get my metaphore. I spent some time in USA,  you americans,  are like a tree with no roots and your country is aswell. But I would never told you that, unless I read a post like yours. You will never be able to understand nation like mine, even if your parents are professor and antiquarian such like Karolinka\'s. \r\n@onetrickpony - please, get a behaviour, would you?\r\nI am chauvinist and xenophobe and I\'m proud of it. But I don\'t show it, unless I\'ve been provoked.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',4210,0),(4214,4249,'Amanda','amandasteinhauer@gmail.com','','74.128.37.8','2011-01-28 17:15:21','2011-01-28 15:15:21','Mirror,\r\nIf you were to come to my house and start making statements of my mom’s attitude being ridiculous, I would not then insult your mother. It would make no sense to do so. I would think you were uniformed but I have no idea, how me insulting your mother would make the situation any better or make me feel like a better person.\r\nWhere did you spend time in the USA? As you surely know, the United States is a massive country, larger than Western Europe. As such, it is impossible to make sweeping generalizations about the entire country, such as \'you americans, are like a tree with no roots and your country is aswell\'. California is vastly different from Louisiana. Florida is very different from Michigan.  \r\nPlus, your quote above doesn\'t make sense to me. Could you please expand on it? How are americans rootless? What do you mean?\r\nAlso, being a chauvinist and xenophobe is nothing to be proud of. It\'s pathetic to think that that is a strength.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SU 3.28; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5335,4370,'Gery','pukpuk@abv.bg','','94.236.142.2','2011-03-01 11:02:57','2011-03-01 09:02:57','Hi,\r\nI can assure you that most of the Bulgarian dentists are really good specialists. And they work in quite low prices (especially compared with the American standards), so don`t postpone it and just go somewhere! Most of them, especially the younger dentists, know English quite well, so you won`t have problem with this. \r\nWhen I chose a dentist for myself, I`m checking those stuffs: to be a man (because I think they`re better specialists), to be young (not more than 45-50 years old, because of two reasons - first, younger specialists try harder to improve themselves every day and second, their profession is very hard  and I think that after more than 25-30 years of practice your hand isn`t  as sure as it was when you were younger) and the dental office has to be nice, clear place where everything that goes in your mouth is sterilized. The last one these days already is a rule for most of Bulgarian dentists, so don`t bother too much!\r\nI wish you luck with the dentist and hope that soon you will share your impressions and experience!\r\nYou may also search in this site http://www.bzs-srk.bg (it`s the official website of the Bulgarian dental association, Sofia region)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; bg; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 GTB7.1','',0,0),(4219,4249,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2011-01-28 18:53:36','2011-01-28 16:53:36','I may just be beating a dead horse at this point, but I had to follow up on this. \r\n\r\nFirst off, while I do not feel that I need to defend myself (or other fellow POSITIVE readers) to you, @Светлина, I must say I did indeed listen, and very carefully at that, to the video. I have a tourism degree and actually find most historical travelogues quite interesting. AGAIN, it wasn\'t so much the content of the video (after all, the host was merely taking the viewer on a quick tour of Sofia\'s most well-known historical and architectural landmarks, like any other travel video of Sofia would), it was the video production qualities that got to me (music, repetitive scenes, etc...). GO BACK AND READ CAROLYN\'S POST AND MOST OF THE COMMENTS THAT FOLLOWED! We are NOT saying anything bad about Sofia, merely about the video itself. Why are you so defensive? Sofia and Bulgaria\'s merits can speak for themselves. \r\n\r\nQuoting you, \"we have the experience, guts and right to speak up whatever we think.\" That is absolutely true. You can say whatever you feel. But why then can\'t we? Are you the only one entitled to an opinion because you are Bulgarian? You make absolutely no sense and just look and sound ridiculous at this point. \r\n\r\nI am marrying a Bulgarian later this year. I LOVE the fact that he is Bulgarian and also all the differences (and quirks) that come along with it. Just this morning I spoke (via video gmail the 2 words I know in Bulgarian) to my future mother-in-law. She, and most every other Bulgarian I have ever met (unlike you) has been beyond gracious, welcoming, kind, and hospitable. It is people like you that give Bulgaria a bad name. \r\n\r\nI\'d like to think I am done commenting on this post now. I am, quite frankly, over speaking to brick walls. But, who knows, sometimes I just can\'t keep my mouth shut!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',4212,0),(4220,4249,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.145','2011-01-28 18:56:08','2011-01-28 16:56:08','Sorry, Amanda! I meant this to be a reply to my own comment, just put it in the wrong spot.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16','',4219,0),(4221,4249,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-01-28 19:39:59','2011-01-28 17:39:59','Amazing. Bulgarians are chained by clichés. Please, forgive us. I don\'t know what your educational system does, ours imposes clichés.\r\nAfter all, it was designed by a communist government to serve the purposes of the communist government. I can\'t tell a lot more about it yet because I just got the idea. But that\'s more or less what you see here.\r\nYou have no idea how well we\'ve been trained. Please, excuse my fellow Bulgarians. It\'s not their fault...',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00','',0,0),(4223,3578,'There&#8217;s a ruckus going on at Karolinka&#8217;s place &laquo; Girl Meets Bulgaria','','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/theres-a-ruckus-going-on-at-karolinkas-place/','74.200.245.176','2011-01-28 20:34:09','2011-01-28 18:34:09','[...] favorite expat blogger, Karolinka (Carolyn), has quite the commotion going on on her [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library','pingback',0,0),(5337,4383,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-03-01 12:30:05','2011-03-01 10:30:05','Yes, I remember now that maybe I have read something similar in one of those \"Men are from Mars, women are from Venus\" books :)\r\nThere is a lot of truth in them! \r\nMaybe this is the case when talking about swearing as a means of emotional venting. But I\'ve started to notice that (young) people just tend to use it in everyday speech and they pretty much all the time say: \"I don\'t consider this way of talking violent. l don\'t mean to be rude or offensive. I just feel relaxed enough in your company to be the way I am.\"\r\nPinker seems to be a great author aiming at a more general audience. I enjoy very much his style and sense of humour.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',5328,0),(4227,4257,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-28 22:51:40','2011-01-28 20:51:40','@Andreytcho I considered making one this afternoon with a sharpie marker but then I realized all of my permanent markers are at school.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4204,1),(4228,4249,'Mariya','smariika@yahoo.com','','94.108.148.187','2011-01-28 23:14:02','2011-01-28 21:14:02','I watched the movie and I even posted in on FB for people to watch it.\r\n\r\nI agree that the movie is full with cliches, has weird sequences (as the tram one), and awkward comparisons (the one with Olimp...in fact usually Bulgarians compare Musala with Olimp and not Cherni Vruh...). I also didn\'t like the focus so much being on the churches in Sofia, I think much more can be explored beyond the religious angle and constructing the town as a religious center ...\r\n\r\nIn the same time, I think there is not enough done in advertising and thinking of Sofia as more than the capital of Bulgaria. We kind of tend to underestimate this town in comparison to old cities such as Plovdiv and Veliko Turnovo. We are not happy how messy and dirty it is and we tend to forget how many precious things there are in it...starting from the masterpiece icons in the crypt of Nevski cathedral, the thermal baths in the very center of town, Vitosha mountain and much more as shown in the video :)\r\n\r\nThat\'s why I think this video is a good start of the discussion about Sofia and what the town can potentially offer/develop further as a touristic destination...and in such case the efforts should be appreciated than playing around the Rakyia and Constantine the Great jokes :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4229,4257,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2011-01-28 23:25:12','2011-01-28 21:25:12','I think that your previous post Carolyn, makes me really THINK! I realized that it\'s always important when we are watching whatever is on the TV,(no matter commercial,historical review etc,) we have to keep our eyes opened and not to leave our critical insight,becase of some misunderstood feeling of patriotism.I totally agree with Helen. You clearly pointed out that you do not like THE VIDEO,not the city.\r\nIsn\'t it unbelievable that a British guy teaches us about our history in a way,that some people like and other dislike and on the top of this,one amazing American opens my eyes( not for first time), that we have a lot of reasons to live in Sofia.\r\nSofia-what an energetic and exciting place to live!\r\nI will stick to this!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(5339,4390,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2011-03-01 13:28:32','2011-03-01 11:28:32','Честита Баба Марта!\r\n\"Мартеница пращам надалече\r\nнишка от живота във дома,\r\nбяла като вишната на двора\r\nи червена – сила на кръвта.\"\r\n\r\nA little practice in Bulgarian :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(7467,5043,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-06-08 05:53:41','2011-06-08 03:53:41','@TAfricanski I might be able to take a picture of it. I mean, I do go by it two or more times each day.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1','',7462,1),(5393,4426,'Adrian Nikolov','adrnikolov@yahoo.com','','75.25.59.1','2011-03-03 05:11:27','2011-03-03 03:11:27','Carolyn,\r\n\r\nHave a great time in Brussels! I am sure you will really like it (what is there not to like in and about Brussels.....).  Already waiting for your essay or comments on this cultural trip.\r\n\r\n-Adrian',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5792,4563,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-03-18 17:00:53','2011-03-18 15:00:53','@Milen that\'s incredible. Public sector jobs have higher salaries than private?! It\'s absolutely the reverse in the States. This said, I\'d venture to guess that in education in Bulgaria it is also the reverse. My sense is that teachers in private high schools (like mine) are making more money than public school teachers. <em>True?</em> Untrue?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5791,1),(5791,4563,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','85.118.193.147','2011-03-18 15:52:03','2011-03-18 13:52:03','Actually, the public sector salaries in Bulgaria are higher than the ones in the private sector. It has been so for years due to the underreporting and tax evasion in the private sector.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5','',0,0),(6559,4674,'мица','mitsa@gmail.com','','82.137.72.33','2011-04-19 19:01:09','2011-04-19 17:01:09','I am also an American who lives in Sofia, and I have to say that your basic observations of Bulgarian culture and life are rather myopic and limited...  I am sorry, but for a Fulbright scholar who teaches English in a foreign country, your grammar and basic writing skills are atrocious.',0,'0','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(6850,4881,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-05-05 09:02:55','2011-05-05 07:02:55','@Lindsay Okay, you got me. It still seems like a fair warning about the month of March...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6849,1),(6851,4881,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.201','2011-05-05 11:17:04','2011-05-05 09:17:04','Indeed. Ain\'t climate change grand... And while the cold doesn\'t worry me at all, I do have troubling thoughts about the heat that will follow. I\'m pretty sure July and August will redefine \"hell on earth\"...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16','',0,0),(8456,5288,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-07-25 15:15:13','2011-07-25 13:15:13','Isn\'t it great you can eat dinner in Bulgaria starting from 6 p.m. and not leaving the table until midnight? 6 hours of eating, drinking and sweet talks and it won\'t look inappropriate or strange to anybody :) Cheers!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0','',0,0),(8457,5288,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','195.96.228.171','2011-07-25 16:39:45','2011-07-25 14:39:45','Hehe, just so I know that if I happen to be at Walla Walla one day, I\'ll have to make a reservation for not later than 7 p.m.:)\r\nHave fun!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.122 Safari/534.30','',0,0),(5359,4390,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/','71.192.135.187','2011-03-02 03:37:00','2011-03-02 01:37:00','I was so captivated by the martenitsa that I started making my own  to give to friends. I make them the traditional way, with red and white yarn. Not too many people in the States know about this custom, so I am teaching them about it, especially the people that I dance with.  They think it\'s really cool.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(5360,4390,'dAd','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-03-02 05:32:18','2011-03-02 03:32:18','Your MoM put a martenitsi on my wrist this morning - good luck you say... perhaps, I only got three fillings at the dentist... The good news was that he had a real drill - not one made out of a sewing machine!\r\n\r\nThe first thing that I saw when I went outside were some white \"dew drops\" blooming - no I didn\'t take the martenisti off after wearing it for just five minutes.  I decided that the dew drops were already blooming (perhaps since January) so they didn\'t count...\r\n\r\nI did however wish everyone that came into the store \"A happy March!\"\r\n\r\ndAd',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(8411,5240,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','128.193.8.92','2011-07-22 22:20:02','2011-07-22 20:20:02','Thank you for coming to visit. I wondered ow much it would feel like a homecoming for you, and how much it would feel like a strange town. I don\'t remember much from growing up in Corvallis, but it does feel like home. Thanks for letting me share it with you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0','',0,0),(7161,4923,'Charlotte','charlotte.emigh@gmail.com','','98.232.187.27','2011-05-21 07:22:02','2011-05-21 05:22:02','How did you get to be so brave and adventurous? It must be all 30 of your years. I\'m sure you will come up with something intriguing, its what you do!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6','',0,0),(5362,3578,'Carlyn','starcar164@hotmail.com','','72.174.49.22','2011-03-02 07:04:32','2011-03-02 05:04:32','Hi Carolyn!\r\n\r\nI stumbled upon your gem of a blog because I\'m applying to study abroad next spring at the American University of Bulgaria! Currently eating up all the info I can about Bulgaria and loving your blog.\r\n\r\nWhat is spring like in Bulgaria? January-May. \r\n\r\nAny fun things to share with a college student looking to study abroad there?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(8454,5284,'Стойчо','stojtscho@yahoo.com','http://patepis.com','84.54.160.84','2011-07-25 13:45:28','2011-07-25 11:45:28','Good reason to write a travel story about :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0','',0,0),(6874,4881,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-05-06 16:56:42','2011-05-06 14:56:42','@Kate I don\'t think it\'s so bad that you need to bring boots (that sounds like a very Bulgarian-mom/baba kind of comment) but I\'d bring a sweater and/or layers. The weather has been hugely unpredictable this spring. And do look for my email. Okay?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6872,1),(4247,4249,'Deyan','deyan.ginev@gmail.com','','77.21.164.202','2011-01-29 13:56:32','2011-01-29 11:56:32','\"Coming here is not an exotic vacation, it`s breaking into our lives and I think you should consider it more carefully.\"\r\n\r\nApparently, the video should have shown that Sofia exhibits not only 1300 year old history, but also citizens with 1300 year old view of the world.\r\n\r\nPlease submit yourself to the closest museum that is collecting examples of specimens pre-dating the early 1900s.\r\n\r\nAlso, if you are willing to enact a set of values form the kinship system, I recommend you get off the internet, go to the kitchen and cook dinner for your family. Also, please wash their underwear while you\'re at it. And don\'t worry about working or voting, you can just relax and enumerate the number of people \"intruding\" into your wonderful life.\r\n\r\nGeez...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13','',4203,0),(5780,4546,'Ники','nico@mail.bg','','92.247.8.174','2011-03-18 09:46:18','2011-03-18 07:46:18','I\'m using debit card since the early 00\'s and I\'ve owned a couple of credit cards in the past 10 years. What I find the most inconvenient in using both cards are the limitations and the fees.\r\n\r\n Limitations: you cannot withdraw more than 400 lv per day from a debit card in cash (this can be changed but I don\'t think it\'s very easy to do); your money is not insured against theft if you use debit card, and I have a lot of friends who\'s money has been stolen from their debit cards using scanning devices on ATMs; \r\n\r\nFees: Each ATM takes a different fee depending on the operation you make and the bank which issued your card. Fees vary from free (if the ATM is owned by the bank that issued your card) or 0.55lv per transaction to 3% of the amount you withdraw (or 12lv! for every 400 you take from the ATM). And this is just for debit cards. \r\n\r\nCredit cards are a whole different stroy - banks take even more money in fees, and the interest on debit cards is often as high as 19%... It proves to be very expensive for the Bulgarians to own and use a credit card - so I think the banks are working against the wider use of cards in BG.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15','',0,0),(5368,4390,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-03-02 09:02:57','2011-03-02 07:02:57','@dAd Oh. I am glad to hear that I\'ve taught MoM so well. It\'s like she\'s going to be Bulgarian soon!! Sorry to hear about the serious trip to the dentist.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5360,1),(5369,4269,'V','civ_mail@yahoo.com','','82.137.72.33','2011-03-02 09:30:30','2011-03-02 07:30:30','My point was that this is a recent thing, from communism :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110207 Firefox/3.6.13','',4376,0),(5370,4269,'V','civ_mail@yahoo.com','','82.137.72.33','2011-03-02 09:43:38','2011-03-02 07:43:38','My grandparents always had a тенекия of olive oil for really important meals, even though it was really expensive and hard to get during communism, and before communism my great-grandfather was a peanut oil producer, but our house/factory  was demolished after the soviets came.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110207 Firefox/3.6.13','',4376,0),(4254,4263,'ilian','imar@abv.bg','','85.130.53.4','2011-01-29 20:05:03','2011-01-29 18:05:03','It\'s diplomacy Boyko Borisov style :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(8393,5222,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.128.98','2011-07-21 18:34:23','2011-07-21 16:34:23','@joe Thanks!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0','',8390,1),(5775,4558,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-18 06:52:03','2011-03-18 04:52:03','@A Bulgarian Thanks so much for your tips. The key it seems is repetition, repetition, repetition. Something I\'ve been doing just maybe not enough of it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5768,1),(5776,4558,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-18 06:56:59','2011-03-18 04:56:59','@Fabien you are definitely not alone. I\'ve been contemplating the same thing--only I don\'t have any in-laws.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5770,1),(4257,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.40.90.71','2011-01-29 21:54:04','2011-01-29 19:54:04','Thanks for the advices :)  But why not letting the blonde take part in the conversation? And do you honestly believe she doesn\'t cook and wash her underwear? Stop being ashamed of people like me and like your parents. Teen riots are supposed to stay behind when you reach the voting age.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4247,0),(4258,4249,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.40.90.71','2011-01-29 22:03:18','2011-01-29 20:03:18','Well well well :) My own grandmother is treating the German boyfriend of my cousin living in London the way your mother-in-law is treating you.  Many people are. They respect you for your origin and not for your personality and that`s foolish of them but no one can stop it. \r\nThese people are troubled and don\'t like themselves (enough). My point is... you have no Bulgarian friends yet, you have acquaintances. You don\'t know any Bulgarians yet but your fiance.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4219,0),(4259,4263,'James','James335@yahoo.com','','86.162.220.84','2011-01-29 22:26:48','2011-01-29 20:26:48','It works.  Bulgaria has really good relations with most of the Arab world, and there are a lot of Arabs living in bulgaria. He said it as a joke, but seriously Bulgaria doesn\'t have problems with terrorists.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5','',0,0),(4260,4263,'Vergil','vergilg@hotmail.com','','99.241.2.231','2011-01-29 23:00:08','2011-01-29 21:00:08','Did anyone expect anything less from Mr. Borisov?  Most of the time I read an article about him it entails Mr. Borisov playing tennis/soccer/martial arts ,etc.  Seldom is Mr. Borisov seen negotiating economic deals or anything of this sort with foreign leaders.\r\n\r\nThis is what you get Bulgaria for electing this intelect!\r\n\r\nHow I miss the 90s!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(5380,4390,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-03-02 17:17:06','2011-03-02 15:17:06','Is it too late to give one away, if you can\'t get it organizsed until about March 4th?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5381,4408,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-03-02 17:37:17','2011-03-02 15:37:17','I like the one with the blue bead - no knots required. I\'m glad to hear you had a wonderful day.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4263,4249,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','174.23.224.158','2011-01-29 23:31:41','2011-01-29 21:31:41','Really? I didn\'t know we had met. I didn\'t know you knew my life story. If you did you would know that I have many Bulgarian friends. I have been to Bulgaria. I worked and lived with about 50 Bulgarians (plus countless more Serbians and Macedonians). I can guarantee you that they respect me for my personality AND for my origins. You, on the other hand, deserve respect from no one. Your attitude is sickening and I am done speaking to you.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4258,0),(5774,4558,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-18 06:48:21','2011-03-18 04:48:21','@Petya I love your comment. Especially this line: I am not sure how it happened, but one day I couldn’t speak much English and the next day I could. I\'ve been waiting for that to happen but it hasn\'t. Now I\'ve got to actually work at it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5756,1),(7468,5024,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-06-08 05:54:07','2011-06-08 03:54:07','@Alicia You made my morning. Thanks so much!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1','',7464,1),(4267,4249,'Георги Й','gjordanoff@gmail.com','','95.42.108.84','2011-01-30 00:22:34','2011-01-29 22:22:34','OMG, such a long and tough conversation! I watched the video, it\'s not that i didn\'t like it and all the facts i didn\'t know before, but, really ... is this video really a reason for all these comments? Just because someone here said he/she didn\'t like it, the video, not Sofia itself.\r\nWhy all these negative vibrations here? Why did someone here decide Karolinka (or Whitney or whoever) has or doesn\'t have the right to live in Bulgaria.\r\nСветлина, if you find them breaking into your life in a negative way, then too bad for you and YOUR Balkan life style.. \r\n(Thank god some people here weren\'t born back then, cause Constantine would have never liked Serdika, they would have kicked him out of it lol)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b10','',0,0),(6240,4682,'D.','cimbrio@hotmail.com','http://dawsr.wordpress.com','87.222.146.53','2011-04-05 19:02:27','2011-04-05 17:02:27','How bout going up north and crossing over the border to see Galicia, the region I come from? Valença do Minho, Tuy, Viana do Castelo and so on... \r\n\r\nHave fun!!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010031422 Firefox/3.0.19','',0,0),(4269,4263,'Ilia Temelkov - soregashi','temelkovv@gmail.com','http://temelkoff.blogspot.com','94.26.69.172','2011-01-30 01:03:28','2011-01-29 23:03:28','Хах, да това е дипломация в стила на ББ. Защо мислиш, че си добре дошла в България? Защото има американски фастфууд на всеки ъгъл, така че американците са добре дошли :D.\r\n\r\nHaha, yup, that\'s BB\'s style of diplomacy. Why you think you are welcome in Bulgaria? Because there is american fastfood on every corner, so americans are welcome :D.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(5398,1844,'Random','themightydwarf@hotmail.bg','','79.132.6.238','2011-03-03 10:52:11','2011-03-03 08:52:11','Каролинка,do u like chalga music ? :-)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; bg; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5822,4558,'Carole','dontwanttoputmymail@nicetry.com','','71.178.105.47','2011-03-19 13:32:24','2011-03-19 11:32:24','Could part of the problem be that you\'re an English teacher and an English-language blogger, so your brain is exercised in your native tongue every day? Someone else mentioned immersion with a family who only speaks Bulgarian, and I would second that... the key is to have *no way out* when it comes to the language. My theory in France was if you need the language in order to eat, sleep, and love, your sympathetic nervous system will come to your aid and work with you to become fluent.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11','',0,0),(7471,5043,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.67','2011-06-08 12:23:26','2011-06-08 10:23:26','Carolyn, don\'t fall in this trap. What you think is interesting is what matters. Doesn\'t matter if it is a hole. I\'ve shot numerous photos of these holes, because they are interesting to me and I want to compare with the result. Don\'t think so much about the opinion of others.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30','',0,0),(5819,4566,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-19 11:49:20','2011-03-19 09:49:20','@Miroslava Thanks for the heads up. I love lifehacker so I don\'t why I didn\'t check there first in order to solve this problem!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5818,1),(4277,4263,'Doriana','doriana@gbg.bg','','87.121.52.144','2011-01-30 10:38:08','2011-01-30 08:38:08','Well, Boiko Borisov\'s numerous crazy sounding phrases can be compared to George W. Bush\'s blunders whenever he spoke instead of reading the the speeches his assistants wrote for him. A lot of people in Bulgaria feel embarrassed because of Boiko Borisov, but he is still quite popular among others. At least he cannot (hopefully!) start a pointless and devastating war in a foreign contry.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(5818,4566,'Miroslava','mm_st@abv.bg','','78.90.51.247','2011-03-19 11:23:00','2011-03-19 09:23:00','There is a workaround to read nyt for free - http://lifehacker.com/#!5783148/how-to-keep-reading-the-ny-times-for-free',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(4279,4263,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-30 11:37:04','2011-01-30 09:37:04','@Doriana This a very funny and insightful comment. Thanks!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4277,1),(7473,5018,'Robyn','robyndyanrusso@gmail.com','http://misplacedyinzer.wordpress.com/','164.106.108.114','2011-06-08 15:27:33','2011-06-08 13:27:33','I very much like your post, Ms. Emigh, but I think you should also show off how helpful you are to others looking to decide: pull out the list of stats, pull out a map, and suddenly Robyn is is Hungary :-)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5404,4408,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.157','2011-03-03 19:18:41','2011-03-03 17:18:41','Man, I wish I were in BG! I love this holiday! \r\n\r\nYou will have a lot of work to do tying all of those to a tree when spring arrives!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4876,4306,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.209','2011-02-15 07:19:04','2011-02-15 05:19:04','I\'d sure miss the meat, but darn if that doesn\'t look good! Well done :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4284,4265,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.172','2011-01-30 15:25:30','2011-01-30 13:25:30','Here\'s an idea - lentil salad. Boil the lentils, filter(?) it from the water (which you don\'t need) and add salt, pepper, fine cut parsley, olive oil and vinegar. Add diced ham, boiled eggs too, also diced in not too small dices. Voila. \r\nI\'ll take a look through some of my cook books for other salads.\r\nOh, and about the sneezing - play it safe and take a couple of Aspirin C\'s when you get back. There is an epidemic, after all.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4285,4265,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.172','2011-01-30 15:54:13','2011-01-30 13:54:13','Well what do you know - I got a sort of an eggplant salad. \r\nYou bake and peel two eggplants and after they\'ve cooled, dice them. Cut 2-3 tomatoes and 6-7 baked and peeled peppers. Cut a large onion into thin slices. Mix all this with fine cut parsley (half the small bundle like those that that old ladies sell). Add salt as desired. Pou a coffee cup (i.e. shot glass) oil and stir a little. Diced pickle is opitional. И готово :)\r\nI\'ll look for some proper eggplant dishes later tonight.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4284,0),(5406,4378,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.157','2011-03-03 19:27:54','2011-03-03 17:27:54','The photos on Sofia as I see it are great. They look like old Polaroids. Very cool. \r\n\r\nI have also been contemplating switching to a more photo-based blog. My writing skills just aren\'t the best and I think it\'s easier to show the \"feel\" of a city through visuals. \r\n\r\nYour writing is great, so I am glad you will be sticking with what you are doing! \r\n\r\nW.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4289,4265,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-01-30 18:50:46','2011-01-30 16:50:46','If you send me a recipe when you are getting ready to fix one of these, I\'ll see what I can do about fixing them here in Walla Walla.  Sort of like cooking together in different kitchens.\r\nYour dAd is always up for a culinary adventure.  (You should have seen what I fixed on Saturday.) I\'ve been feeling a little bored with the things I\'ve been cooking lately.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4290,4265,'Kiwi','Kiwi@gmx.li','','85.177.236.6','2011-01-30 20:02:17','2011-01-30 18:02:17','Hi Karolinka :-)\r\nIf been reading your blog for a while and love your comments on Sofia and Bulgaria. I am living in Hamburg, Germany and my husband is from Sofia.\r\nToday I like to help your with some ideas:\r\n- green salad or spring salad made of finelly sliced lettuce, small chopped radishes and spring onions. Fixed with some salt, vinegar and oil.\r\n- Baked salad: slice eggplant, zucchini (summer squash), tomato and bake in an pan in some olive oil until golden brown. Place on a platter in one layer and season with fresh parsil, salt, olive oil and chopped garlic. Eat with a slice of sirene.\r\nI hope your enjoy it...\r\nBest wishes,\r\nKiwi',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8C148','',0,0),(4869,4306,'Vergil','vergilg@hotmail.com','','99.241.2.231','2011-02-15 03:10:39','2011-02-15 01:10:39','A tip on washing/cleaning mushrooms - soak them in water and white flower, and rinse; helps rid of the dirt. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(4296,4265,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-01-30 22:10:47','2011-01-30 20:10:47','Eggplant something:\r\nGet some eggplants - cut them in slices - the way you cut bread. Then put the slices in a large dish with a lot of salt and leave them for an hour to get the bitterness out. Then dry them, coat them with flour and fry them in a deep pan with a lot of oil. Take them out. In a separate pan prepare thick tomato sause and just before you take it away from the hot plate put in it some large  bits of cheese (white Bulgarian chese). Do not keep them long enough to melt! Cover the fried eggplant slices with the sause. It goes well with garlic.\r\nThat\'s a great summer dish and one of my favourites.  But I don\'t know what kind of eggplants you would find during the winter. Maybe you should stick to the кьопоолу recipe above. But this one you can get ready made from the shop or better yet ask one of your Bulgarian frieds to get you a home made one. Personally, I am not much into it. \r\nAs for the lentils - well, make the soup. It looks like the bob chorba but is prepared in a different way.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(5894,4572,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-22 18:56:07','2011-03-22 16:56:07','@Matt T. you make a good point. It\'s interesting how money, time and age influence something like cell-phone culture.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5892,1),(5893,4572,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-22 18:48:57','2011-03-22 16:48:57','@Комитата I had a hunch that when I was writing this it might not apply to a certain cross-section of Bulgaria--I was guessing it would be the well-educated tech-savvy in Sofia.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5887,1),(5875,4563,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2011-03-21 23:36:11','2011-03-21 21:36:11','This scares me. I want to live in Bulgaria and possibly start a family there, however, the knowledge that I could be making so much more in America (even in an entry level job) may always nag at me. I cannot believe how little some jobs pay in BG, especially in the education field. I mean a chemist making 320lv? That\'s insane! \r\n\r\nMy degree is in Tourism Management, and I would love to find a job in the tourism field in BG. If Bulgaria\'s teachers make so little I can\'t even begin to imagine what workers in the travel industry make.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(5873,4574,'Whitney','whit.graves@gmail.com','http://girlmeetsbulgaria.wordpress.com','155.101.171.171','2011-03-21 22:34:23','2011-03-21 20:34:23','Oh! It\'s such a fantastic movie. Probably in my top 10 of all time. \r\n\r\n I am sure you will LOVE it! Colin Firth deserved that Oscar.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(4309,4265,'Boyancho','bouzanis@abv.bg','','89.215.137.175','2011-01-31 11:22:19','2011-01-31 09:22:19','Лютеница - the real lyutenitza is made ONLY from red peppers. Bake them (grill, barbecue, or the special pepper-baking-device) , peel, put in some garlic, olive oil, parsley, black pepper, salt. Blend everything with a hand blender (the smoothness level is up to you, I prefer it more coarse). \r\nКьопоолу - bake whole eggplants on a grill or barbecue (gives them a great smokey taste, much better than oven baked). bake them very very well! When you peel the black burnt part, inside the eggplant should have become kind of transparent! Bake some red peppers as well. Mix the eggplants , peppers, garlic, parsley, a lot of olive oil, salt and blend with a hand blender up to the desired smoothness. Best consumed while still warm with good fresh bread.\r\n\r\nBoth things however should be done in summer with fresh and delicious products. The stuff you get from the market now is no good. Also, many people put tomatoes in those two startes - believe me, they are much better without the tomatoes, which give a watery bland taste! Commercial version in the supermarket have MOSTLY tomatoes inside because tomatoes are cheaper. But I never buy those anyway. So much tastier if you make them yourself.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(4310,4265,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-31 11:25:00','2011-01-31 09:25:00','@Boyancho Sounds like maybe I should wait on these recipes until summer time. I guess it\'s a good thing that one can make and eat soup all year round but that it\'s especially good in the winter!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4309,1),(4311,4265,'Marta','martarosm@hotmail.com','','95.87.206.20','2011-01-31 11:36:38','2011-01-31 09:36:38','What about homemade Ruska Salata? it\'s sold everywhere in Sofia, but in my opinion it has way too much mayonnaise sauce. The homemade one is worderful and much more healthier. And I usually replace the ham for tuna fish, delicious!\r\nMy recipe: boil separely eggs, green beans, peas, potatoes and carrots. Cut in dices and add tuna fish, and also tsarevitsa if you wish.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(6598,4764,'valix','valix@mail.bg','','82.103.64.57','2011-04-21 16:52:04','2011-04-21 14:52:04','The best way to choose a handset is to touch it for real and see how it feels like. I suggest you go to a store and try some devices. Hold them, try the responsiveness. You can ask a personnel for assistance.\r\nAs for the operating system - it doesn\'t really matter if you choose iOS, Android or Windows Mobile - they are all fancy and touchy and have similar features (just stay away from cheep Chinese no-name handsets). HTC, Samsung, LG are fine.\r\nI personally use Android HTC and I like it. Good luck!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)','',0,0),(4314,4265,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-31 12:25:08','2011-01-31 10:25:08','Супа топчета then. The obvious choice.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',4310,0),(6597,4764,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.140.65','2011-04-21 16:29:03','2011-04-21 14:29:03','I\'m just glad to see that you plan to be home in July.  I have no opinion about smart phones.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(7464,5024,'Alicia','annaaliciakowol@aol.com','','189.143.80.63','2011-06-08 02:36:10','2011-06-08 00:36:10','You look pretty!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; es-es) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(6878,4883,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-05-07 08:57:15','2011-05-07 06:57:15','@Elizabeth Thanks! I did a quick search of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Demetrius\" rel=\"nofollow\">St Demetrius</a> (as he\'s know in English) and it seems like the little guy is in fact St Demetri.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6871,1),(4316,4265,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-31 13:00:58','2011-01-31 11:00:58','@helen do you have a favorite recipe? I just looked at five different ones online and they are all fairly different.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4314,1),(4317,4265,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-31 13:01:39','2011-01-31 11:01:39','@Marta excellent idea!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4311,1),(6592,4764,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-04-21 13:29:25','2011-04-21 11:29:25','@Doriana and @eenk Thanks for the advice! I guess that I am going shopping this weekend.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6590,1),(4320,4265,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-01-31 14:40:12','2011-01-31 12:40:12','It\'s very challenging for me to put down a recipe for you in English. Plus, I am not much of a cook. But my topcheta soup is very simple - it includes chopped onions and carrots, black pepper, savory (чубрица), rice and meatballs made out of minced meat bought from the shop. And at the end liaison (застойка) made from one egg and two or three spoons of yogurt. Can you make something out of it? If you are still interested I may send you the exact instrucitons through e-mail. Or better yet leave it for somebody more knowledgeable to give you guidance (!but do not add tomatoes!) :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',4316,0),(4321,4265,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.242.191.2','2011-01-31 16:01:16','2011-01-31 14:01:16','Гювечета :)\r\nhttp://media.snimka.bg/1681/009618135.jpg',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4322,4265,'Milen','milenb@mail.bg','','87.118.153.147','2011-01-31 16:04:48','2011-01-31 14:04:48','Ruska Salata is not a traditional Bulgarian dish in fact. As the name would suggest Ruska Salata i.e. Russian Salad. The funny thing it is not even Russian. In Russia, the dish is called Olivie Salad and in fact comes from France. It\'s called Russian Salad in Bulgaria, because it came to Bulgaria from Russia.\r\nIn the same line of thought, Moussaka and Кьопоолу are not originally Bulgarian either. The first one is Greek and the second one Turkish, but they are common, widespread and loved in Bulgaria, so they have become a part of Bulgarian cuisine.',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53','',4317,0),(4324,4265,'Diana','dianamjr@yahoo.co.uk','','128.173.232.214','2011-01-31 17:18:46','2011-01-31 15:18:46','\"Sirene v giuveche\"\r\nOne of my favorite dishes but you need giuveche. Giuveche is the mini version of giuvech. I am sure if you\'ve been to the large open fresh market off Lion\'s Bridge (that for whatever reason people refer to Jenski Pazar) or to any other open market, you must have seen various brown/colorful clay pots - these are either \"giuvech\" (big ones) or \"giuveche\" (little ones). \r\nEverone has his/her own version of making \"sirene v giuveche\" so don\'t be surprised if you find yourself with more than one significantly different recipe for the same dish. \r\nHere is how I make it. You need some finely chopped scallions (in the absence of scallions regular onion would do just fine), some chopped red and/or green peppers (if you can’t find fresh, red roasted peppers coming from a jar taste great too), some diced tomatoes (if you can’t find fresh tomatoes from a jar work too), some chopped parsley (again, if you can’t find fresh, either dried or frozen can do), and obviously sirene. Now, try to find good quality sirene as it is important for the flavor of the whole dish. Also, taste it before you use it – sometimes it can be too salty which makes the whole dish too salty. To solve that, you can put the cheese for a couple of hours in fresh cold water. You may have found already that sirene in Bulgaria is made from cow’s milk, sheep’s milk, goat’s milk, and a combination of these. If you like really strong flavor you can go for sheep (I find it too smelly but everyone is different). Goat sirene is excellent although tough to find. However, regular cow’s milk sirene if it is good quality is wonderful – it should not be offensively smelly, should not crumble at the slightest touch, should not be hard as a rock, and should not be too salty. Nice fresh aroma, good firm consistency, good color, and a pleasant flavor – that’s what you look for in sirene. \r\nHere is what you do next. Put the chopped scallions/onions, peppers, tomatoes, and parsley at the bottom of the giuveche (you choose quantity but it should be proportional to the quantity of sirene used) and mix them well. Cut a larger chunk of the sirene (again, you choose the quantity) and put on top. Sprinkle with some black pepper and paprika. Put in the oven. I am not sure for how long – I check it every few minutes and take it out when it looks ready. To look ready – you should smell the aroma in the air and the sirene should look on the verge of melting (but should still be in the same shape as it was when you put it in), and everything should look hot. Then you take it out and crack an egg on top of it. Put it back in the oven until the egg starts looking like sunny side up (the yolk should be runny). Then take out, put a tiny bit of butter on top so it melts, sprinkle more black pepper, paprika, and parsley. You should it eat while it is still hot. Before you start eating, take a fork and mix it all together. Make sure you have some freshly baked bread – good crust and soft on the inside. Eat the dish with the bread. Delicious! Now, for a true Bulgarian experience, you should drink airian with it. Have you tired it yet? Take plain yogurt, fill half tall glass with it, mix well with a fork until it looks smooth, add cold water to fill in the glass, mix well and - voila! Some people like to add a bit of salt in it.  \r\nWhile it took so long to write this, the actual preparation of the giuveche (once you have the necessary ingredients) takes minutes. So, it is a very delicious and fast dish to make, especially when strapped for time. Enjoy!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5843,4558,'Beth','beth.ashworth@gmail.com','','209.252.34.205','2011-03-20 15:49:53','2011-03-20 13:49:53','Also see if you can find some Bulgarian news agencies on Twitter.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5842,4558,'Beth','beth.ashworth@gmail.com','','209.252.34.205','2011-03-20 15:49:01','2011-03-20 13:49:01','I think I was at about your level when I moved to Russia. The one thing that increased my vocabulary the most was translating, especially because news sites tend to use the same words (esp. verbs) over and over again. After you translate a few newspaper articles, you\'ll find that you don\'t need to look up certain words anymore, and eventually it will seem strange that you didn\'t know them before. Kind of like fake, sped-up immersion (because you are learning them in context, not from memorizing a list of words). \r\n\r\nIt helps a lot if you HAVE to do this to get paid, but I would try it anyway. Start with a newspaper, though, because magazines are too fancy. Anything factual shouldn\'t give you too much difficulty. And no shame in using Google translate — I do.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4328,4265,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-01-31 19:06:06','2011-01-31 17:06:06','I found several eggplant dishes, but I don\'t know which would be more Bulgarian. And I hate eggplants, so I can\'t tell you which is tastier. But if any of these interest you, I\'ll translate it:\r\n1. Eggplants stuffed with cheese and baked\r\n2. Baked eggplants with bechamel sauce\r\n3. Sliced baked eggplants\r\n4. Mashed baked eggplants\r\n5. Cut in long pieces and baked eggplants\r\n6. Eggplant moussaka\r\n7. Oriental eggplants\r\n8. Imambayalduh\r\n9. Fried eggplants with yogurt\r\n10. Eggplants with tomato sauce\r\n11. Fried eggplants with rice\r\n12. Eggplants fried in eggs and bread (don\'t know the word for that)\r\n13. Eggplant schnitzels (three types)\r\n14. Eggplant kyufteta\r\nwith meat:\r\n15. Mutton with eggplants\r\n16. Stuffed eggplants\r\n\r\nIf I have to choose, I\'d say 1 and 9 are the most Bulgarian. 8 is definitely Turkish, and the name means \"the imam fainted (with delight)\"',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(4329,4265,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-01-31 19:08:05','2011-01-31 17:08:05','PS: that\'s \"fried in eggs and bread crumbs\" on 12.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4328,0),(4331,4265,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-01-31 19:58:33','2011-01-31 17:58:33','hey - never knew what имам баялдъ meant but I am fascinated by the way you spelled it in English.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',4329,0),(4332,4265,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-31 20:35:33','2011-01-31 18:35:33','@Bobby: Wow! There are too many to pick from. I have to say that #1 and #8 seem like the clear winners. You had me at eggplant stuffed with cheese and the thought of a an imam fainting over eggplant. That sounds like my kind of a dish!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4328,1),(4333,4265,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-31 20:37:31','2011-01-31 18:37:31','@Diana Holy-smokes!! I want to make and eat that dish right now. I must, <em>must</em>, buy my own giuveche this weekend.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4324,1),(4334,4265,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-01-31 20:40:13','2011-01-31 18:40:13','@helen I think that I can handle this soup. Or not, we\'ll see. That\'s all part of the challenge. And, will not add tomatoes!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4320,1),(5838,4558,'Светлина','svetlina.vitanova@gmail.com','http://vitanova.wordpress.com/','84.40.90.71','2011-03-20 10:31:44','2011-03-20 08:31:44','Or you can simply ask all Bulgarian fans of your blog to comment in Bulgarian. At least the subject will be more interesting than those from the textbooks.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(6591,4764,'Doriana','doriana@gbg.bg','','62.73.113.14','2011-04-21 09:30:47','2011-04-21 07:30:47','Can you buy an iphone in the States without a monthly plan there? If you can, it would probably be cheaper. Anyway, if you decide to buy a smartphone in Bulgaria, they will probably want you to switch to a monthly plan and will offer you their more expensive ones. Keep in mind that you can ask to buy the phone (at a slightly higher price) with a much cheaper monthly plan - something around 10-15 levs per month. Choosing a smartphone is a tough decision anyway, mainly because everybody will be trying to convince you to buy an iphone. It\'s not a bad idea to check some other options, like HTC and Samsung Galaxy S. Good luck!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(6235,4674,'Acnapyx','acnapyx@gmail.com','http://acnapyx.blogspot.com/','84.40.96.224','2011-04-05 09:09:12','2011-04-05 07:09:12','I\'ve watched it with my girlfriend, and I\'m generally not that sure I liked it too much. The storyline is not bad, the acting is fine... but the schematic structure of the movie was too predictable, too obvious. So generally I\'d say the movie but okay, but not exactly something to write home about :)\r\n\r\nDid he do anything with his life? Well, part of the idea of the movie was exactly that he would do something, if he lived in a non-communist country; that his life was wasted in some way because of the communist regime (too widespread sentiment for some generations of Bulgarians). \r\n\r\nThe emigration topic is somehow a sore topic here. The people who stayed during the transitional years (90s) feel like they have suffered through the hard times, and the Bulgarian emigrants abroad are a kind of traitors, because they chose to run away. The movie tries too hard to manipulate the audience that even if you leave, you <i>will not</i> accomplish something important abroad, because you have left your heart at <i>home</i>; otherwise I generally like it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16','',0,0),(4339,4265,'Marin','mguergov@yahoo.com','','212.43.39.155','2011-01-31 22:04:32','2011-01-31 20:04:32','eggplant (eng.) = имамбаяълдъ (bulg.)= imambayıldı (turk.)\r\n\r\n1. Lyutika (лютика) - mixed salad with cut tomatoes, baked and pealed red or green peppers, onions and garlic squashed with salt\r\n\r\n2. Drusan kebap (друсан кебап) - onions and small pieces of pork. The pork is cut into small pieces, put with small amount of water in a pot with cover, added salt. After the meat  is ready the pot is removed from the stove. Cut onions and black pepper are added. The covered pot is shaken (as hard as possible, preferably from male :) for 1-2 minutes. Drusan kebap is probably Turkish and could be prepared from mutton, but I have tried only the Bulgarian (pork) version.',0,'1','Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1','',0,0),(4340,4263,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2011-01-31 22:16:41','2011-01-31 20:16:41','And here we are with new term on the horizon - Bulgarian style diplomacy! Enjoy!\r\nIt\'s a pitty that it\'s not funny!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(4342,4265,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','78.90.92.40','2011-01-31 22:46:13','2011-01-31 20:46:13','Yeyyyyyyyyy!\r\n\r\nMy top favourite Biscotti Cake is also included in your list!Way to go! I even have tried to show to my mother-in-low how to do it in the easiest possible way! My mom used to do such a cake for me and my sister.The most important for me is to find a Bulgarian type Biscotti,not an Italian,because they differ and for me personally,the cake is more delicious with Bulgarian biscotti.( I am wondering whether you have tried sweets called Негърче , if you have,well these sweets are made of the type of biscotti that you will need). I also recommend the youghurt that will be used for the cake to be home-made not bought directly from your Billa :).By home-made I mean to by 4-5 regular youghurts and to squeezed them,so that the whey has to be totally removed( my mom put all the youghurt in a peace of cheese-cloth ) and tie it uo on the sink and in the morning,we have the needed consistence.I dip the biscotti into kompot and just arrange them on a proper tray.Then put a layer of the dried youghurt and add the fruits of the kompot and even a little liqueur.,then the next layer of biscotti etc.Yummy!We doceorate the top of the cacke with grated chocolate and fruits(bananas,oranges etc).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12','',0,0),(4344,4269,'V','civ_mail@yahoo.com','','87.121.162.201','2011-01-31 23:07:46','2011-01-31 21:07:46','The Bulgarian use of sunflower oil for cooking is a new thing, it arose when the Soviets closed the border with Greece, and also destryed the small businesses that produced peanut oil domestically. I think thecause peanut oil roduction is less amenable to the Soviet fetish of mass production and they saw it as more bourgeouis.\r\n\r\nHistorically of course Bulgarians lived in palces where olive oil was produced but after the Greek conquered them they were driven out in the early 20th century, although in the very southern parts of what is now Bulgaria it\'s possible to grow olives, but it used to be economically pointless because trade was free and you could grow them more easily even more to the south before that, and commercially growing olives takes a lot of years to set up.\r\n\r\nBut sunflower oil is kind of an odd thing to use in Bulgarian cooking, if you want to be traditional about it -- although it\'s very healthy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101230 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(5861,3578,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-21 10:34:08','2011-03-21 08:34:08','@Max thanks so much for your comment. I am glad that I\'ve been able to capture a Sofia that you recognize in my blog.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5833,1),(5456,4431,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-03-05 12:57:24','2011-03-05 10:57:24','@Stan I am not sure what to say but this too funny and to Bulgaria, I am sorry. I didn\'t mean to slight you in any way shape or form--Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Bulgaria. I know it\'s got a capitol \"B\" it\'s just really hard to to type on a kindle.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5447,1),(8625,5376,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','74.241.1.43','2011-08-12 15:24:18','2011-08-12 13:24:18','Let us know how the learning to speak Bulgarian project went.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2011032020 Camino/2.0.7 (like Firefox/3.0.19)','',0,0),(4358,4269,'Galarad','galarad@mail.bg','','78.40.137.238','2011-02-01 09:04:20','2011-02-01 07:04:20','For things that are relatively cheap - under 10 lv. I pick up the most expensive per kilogram or the second best. For more expensive I look at the label and try to see the ingredients, look at the packaging etc. I look if the manufacturer have ISO or HASSAP certificates, Stara Planina or similar.\r\n\r\nBilla and HIT in my oppininon are in different categories - HIT is better than Billa for most of the stock there.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',0,0),(8482,3578,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','68.189.128.98','2011-07-27 16:53:47','2011-07-27 14:53:47','@Lauren Thanks for such a kind comment!! And of course, welcome to Bulgaria. When you\'re settled in send me a message and we can make plans to meet up!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0','',8480,1),(4362,4265,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-02-01 11:14:15','2011-02-01 09:14:15','Carolyn, I get hungry lately every time I read your blog :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(4363,4269,'Ivet','ivet13@gmail.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-02-01 11:22:51','2011-02-01 09:22:51','The best way to choose which brands to buy is to try them all, or at least most of them. Things like tag, packaging or advertising is not always a sign of good quality. Every time you go shopping buy different brand of lyutenitsa, cheese, sausage, etc. and for one month you will create your own taste.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(5462,418,'MK','michelleckirkland@hotmail.com','','85.130.21.185','2011-03-05 20:58:28','2011-03-05 18:58:28','Hi Carolyn, I\'ve just moved to Sofia for six months and, like you, am trying to learn a little Bulgarian - it\'s a little bewildering but I\'m hoping I\'ll get the hang of it sooner rather than later. Anyhow, I was directed to your site this afternoon by someone at a local English/Bulgarian language group and what I really wanted to say, apart from that I love the blog, is that I noticed you\'re on Ravelry and I was wondering whether there\'s a knitting group in Sofia? If anyone would know, I\'d guess that would be you! I went to one on a regular basis in England and would love to join in on one here too. I can\'t see one mentioned in the Bulgarian Knitters group on Ravelry (I\'m on there as PoppyTwist) but it would be great if there is one.\r\nAll the best.\r\nMK',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(5941,4594,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-03-24 13:55:58','2011-03-24 11:55:58','So I guess you\'re generalizing in this case too, are you? A Bulgarian generalizing about Bulgarians and drawing stereotypes on the basis of that, that is an expectation about how would a typical Bulgarian behave in and out of Bulgaria and expecting that any good rule would fail in this disorganized country. Very much like Carolyn\'s last sentence of \"doom, doom, doom\" statitng that people in this \"poor country\" would never wake up without plastic bags in the bushes.\r\nYes, but this is very much like using public transportation without paying for it. So in the end it\'s not about nationality. People are the same everywhere. Some possess an internal locus of control, others need very strong rules imposed on them. :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',5919,0),(4369,4265,'Diana','dianamjr@yahoo.co.uk','','128.173.232.214','2011-02-01 16:55:13','2011-02-01 14:55:13','Karolinka, glad to hear that. I just wanted to add that once you\'ve bought your own \"giuveche\" (or more than one), you can use it for variety of dishes, not only \"sirene v giuveche\". You can throw in some veggies and some sausage and put in the oven. Few minutes later you have a ready dish with a great aroma and flavor. Granted, you can prepare the same thing by just putting the same ingredients in a frying pan and cooking it on the stove, but frankly, the flavor and aroma that you would acheive by using the giuveche are so much better. Anyhow, good luck and keep us posted about your cooking adventures!\r\nPS: Another person has written a comment saying that everytime she reads your blog lately, she gets hungry. I must admit that it has the same effect on me!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4333,0),(5935,4594,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-24 06:26:03','2011-03-24 04:26:03','@Комитата Very funny re: sounding Bulgarian because I thought I was channeling classic, hard-working, god-fearing Middle America!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5931,1),(4375,4269,'Lulu','lublena@gmail.com','','63.80.24.139','2011-02-01 20:09:00','2011-02-01 18:09:00','Funny, I am a Bulgarian living in the US and I was looking to get sunflower oil there but was only finding the canola one :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.19 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(4376,4269,'Kate','k.radovanova@gmail.com','http://kick-ass-monster.blogspot.com/','93.218.189.250','2011-02-01 20:29:54','2011-02-01 18:29:54','@ V  you say \"But sunflower oil is kind of an odd thing to use in Bulgarian cooking, if you want to be traditional about it \"  ..now i am very confused because ever since I was young I remember eating meals prepared with sunflower oil....or maybe I am mistaking, but up until I was 10 I didn\'t know any other kind existed...then of course I was told you can make oil out of other things as well..like olives xD And nowadays my parents use both sunflower and olive oil....but maybe it differs depending on the region.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to brands I think it all depends on money. Back in Bulgaria I used to look for the more expensive and more popular ones but here in Germany I feel like an alien in the supermarket....and well...I buy whatever is the cheapest \'cause I\'m a poor student :D\r\nBut I am a fan of diversity, I would recommed trying out different things as well (though in Bulgaria you have to be careful...you never know what you\'re going to get ;) )\r\n\r\nAnd good luck with the cooking this month! I am regularly following the blog, it\'s great! ^_^',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4344,0),(4925,4306,'Elena','el4o2_bear@abv.bg','','84.238.226.41','2011-02-16 23:56:09','2011-02-16 21:56:09','Come on,2 days no post!\r\n\r\nWhere are you? :)\r\n\r\nCan\'t wait for the new cook experience!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4404,4273,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','85.118.192.131','2011-02-02 16:10:13','2011-02-02 14:10:13','OK! Frankly now I want to make some lentils soup for myself. Maybe I should stop reading your blog during the experiment. I\'ve noticed that we have a similar liking for non-meat dishes ... \r\nwith plenty of eggplants :) and cheese :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)','',4402,0),(4405,4273,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2011-02-02 16:22:03','2011-02-02 14:22:03','LOL Mammoth on a stick, the thought makes this gray day bright. :-)\r\nCarolyn, your carrot and cabbage salad looks very good, but nothing like anything I have ever seen in the US.  So if it is not Bulgarian, well it\'s at least creative.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',0,0),(4406,4273,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','213.130.70.154','2011-02-02 16:55:21','2011-02-02 14:55:21','@Ruth the salad is pretty tasty. If you make it at home, just make sure that the cabbage and the carrots are both very thin and then I\'d dress it with a dash of salt and pepper and sprinkle of apple vinegar and sunflower oil!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4405,1),(5526,4480,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-03-08 17:36:38','2011-03-08 15:36:38','Not to brag, but on our walk this morning your dAd hung his martenitsa on a forsythia bush that was in full bloom.  It is right outside the door to the building that Awesome Kellie uses when she goes to work.  She might see it or she might have to wait until she reads your blog.\r\nWe are definitely seeing signs of spring in Walla Walla.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5527,4480,'Kellie','kellie_l_7@hotmail.com','','199.89.174.67','2011-03-08 18:12:35','2011-03-08 16:12:35','Now I am going to have to walk around the building and find said martenitsa!!  Hopefully I can find it!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(4411,4273,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','134.39.208.139','2011-02-02 18:55:34','2011-02-02 16:55:34','Could I use canola?  :)\r\nLove,\r\nMoM',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)','',0,0),(5943,4594,'Комитата','komitata@gmail.com','http://komitata.blogspot.com','85.130.127.57','2011-03-24 16:35:28','2011-03-24 14:35:28','No, I meant something else - You have left the comfortable position of a politically correct foreigner who is ready to forgive every stupidity of the host nation as a „cultural phenomenon“, and now you are talking as a person who has been raised here  and knows the difference between culture and bad habits. \r\n\r\nAnd tries to change things for the better! \r\n\r\nPeople generally know what is wrong and what is not, but it\'s like smoking to an old smoker - you know that the habits kills you, but you won\'t quit, because it requires an effort. \r\n\r\nAnd before I start talking about politics, I would rather stop ;-) \r\n\r\nThese are very good observations and please, don\'t quit on us, we need you to be unsatisfied with the situation.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.151 Safari/534.16','',5935,0),(5529,4480,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-03-08 18:25:02','2011-03-08 16:25:02','@Kellie and @MoM Hope that you two are both enjoying spring. And heckling each other through my blog. It\'s almost like I am in Walla Walla myself!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5527,1),(5530,4390,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-03-08 18:45:57','2011-03-08 16:45:57','@Nick O Thanks so much! I love the tradition and I am glad that my post shows this. And for the record, I agree a Justin Bieber martenitsa while very fun would really too much.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5525,1),(4962,4314,'Vergil','vergilg@hotmail.com','','99.241.2.231','2011-02-18 01:40:05','2011-02-17 23:40:05','OMG!! Velingrad  is awesome :)) Lots of history there. Enjoy the street vendors\' food, especially \'kebapcheta\' near the bus station - my favourite!!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(4418,4273,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','84.40.125.59','2011-02-02 22:46:13','2011-02-02 20:46:13','@MoM I guess so. It would probably be equally tasty with, gasp, olive oil.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4411,1),(4419,4249,'katley','katley99@yahoo.com','http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com','71.192.135.187','2011-02-02 22:59:01','2011-02-02 20:59:01','interesting discussions, all, with a sense of humor :) I understand the big city mentality perfectly, since I was born in New York City.  \r\nAlthough I haven\'t been to Sofia, I\'ve been to a number of European cities, and the ones I liked the most were the ancient ones: Rome, Trier, and Vienna. The smaller towns had their charm as well, and I found their history impressive, compared to the United States.\r\nIn general, Americans think anything built before the 1700\'s is old.  \r\nBy the way\"Vitosha is “the highest” and Iskar is “the deepest\"  is part of a humourous Bulgarian folk song. See link, page 94. \r\nhttp://www.hopp-zwei-drei.de/Texte/Kurzsicht_Lieder_20101218.pdf',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(4470,4284,'Спас Колев','spas_kolev@frisomat.net','http://az-pitam.org/nk/','217.18.249.78','2011-02-04 09:54:03','2011-02-04 07:54:03','Well it isn\'t <em>really</em> Greek, it just became known in the West via the Greek restaurants. It most likely comes from Middle East and the name itself is Arabic.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4455,0),(4472,4284,'Gingi','loke_sss@yahoo.com','','212.36.24.179','2011-02-04 10:30:52','2011-02-04 08:30:52','The заливка (the sauce that will be poured over the moussaka - how do you say that in English?) is a matter of taste and almost everyone that cooks moussaka has his/ her own recipe, whether it will be some variant of bechamel, mixed yogurt and eggs or no заливка at all. :)\r\n\r\nYay for the mushroom moussaka, I will be waiting for your post :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4467,0),(5029,4314,'Polley','ppantche@mail.usf.edu','http://thedaisyprince.tumblr.com/','131.247.50.42','2011-02-20 14:04:18','2011-02-20 12:04:18','I really don\'t want to disappoint you, but I think it has snowed in April/May time before!  I hope for your sake it\'s not like that... \r\nHave fun in Velingrad!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5951,4594,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-24 22:04:44','2011-03-24 20:04:44','Well, I have to say, this is one of the nicest things anyone has said on my blog recently. Thanks!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',5943,1),(4480,4284,'Diana','dianamjr@yahoo.co.uk','','128.173.232.214','2011-02-04 18:57:38','2011-02-04 16:57:38','The traditional version of Bulgarian musaka is made from potatoes and minced meat (usually 70% veal and 30% pork). The zalivka (what you pour on top of it) is made from yogurt and eggs. I have never had Bulgarian musaka served where the zalivka included any sort of cheese - either sirene, kashkaval, or something else. Some people add a bit of flour in the yogurt and egg mixture to thicken it a bit. I\'d have to say that compared to other versions, the traditional Bulgarian musaka is quite simple and healthy (don\'t get me wrong but while the bechamel sause may taste great, I\'d say that yogurt and eggs is probably less calories and much healthier). \r\nThe way I make musaka is I take the minced meat; add salt and some spices like chubritza, black pepper, and paprika. I put some oil in a pan and heat it, then add finely chopped onions until they become translucent. Then I add the minced meat. Once the meat no longer looks raw, I add the finely diced potatoes. I mix it all well, add some more salt and spices, then add some tomatoes from a jar and a bit of warm water. After that I pour everything in big \"tava\" (a large round baking tray that has higher walls than baking trays you are used to in the US) and put in the oven. I bake until the potatoes are fully cooked (but make sure there is still a little juice in the dish as you don\'t want it to be too dry). Meanwhile, I would have made the mixture of yogurt and eggs (I usually put more yogurt and maybe 2 eggs and whisk it all well together) and I will pour it on top of the potato and minced meat mixture. Then I will return it to the oven until the mixture looks cooked but is not dry. And then it\'s done and ready to eat. Often times it tastes better the next day - the flavors have a chance to mix overnight. The key to a really good musaka is quality ingredients (although this is true for pretty much everything); you want to have good fresh potatoes and fresh minced meat.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5949,4544,'Boris','mastylo@gmail.com','http://www.mastylo.net','80.80.143.185','2011-03-24 19:45:32','2011-03-24 17:45:32','Каролинка, това е просто невероятно!! Наистина ли само за 50 урока си стигнала толкова надълбоко в българската граматика?! \r\nБраво на теб!! \r\nА това време не съответства ли на Present Perfect Tense? И защо на английски е Present, а на български \"минало\"? Ама че каша, нали?! :-))',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.151 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(4483,4249,'o.l.','olix@seznam.sk','','212.36.9.187','2011-02-04 19:44:42','2011-02-04 17:44:42','Whitney, I feel so much like you! I\'m Bulgarian but it bugs me to no end when my fellow countrymen act like jerks in situations like the one at hand. Unfortunately, apart from the nice people one can meet in Bulgaria, there\'s a bunch of rude, obnoxious and aggressive people who don\'t get it that criticism is not the same as a personal attack. A great number of people have been fed cliches for many years, and as someone else mentioned, the communist educational system managed to produce a lot of ignorant people who never bother to actually hear what you say or try to see the world from a different perspective. Please, don\'t get mad, it\'s not worth it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4258,0),(5948,4594,'TAfricanski','teodor_slavchev@mail.bg','','145.99.145.40','2011-03-24 18:51:52','2011-03-24 16:51:52','Of course I am generalizing. And I draw stereotypes from everything because I love them. They provide wonderful rules of thumb that help me know what to expect from different people. This, on the other hand, enables me to work, communicate, and even be friends with these people without killing them. Stereotypes are priceless.\r\nIf you think you are different and don\'t fit my generalization for Bulgarians - ok, but I don\'t care. Sorry, nothing personal against you, but your own personality is really irrelevant when we are discussing the aggregate behaviour of people in Bulgaria. So stop acting like a virgin whose ass I pinched in front of everyone at the Sunday horo.\r\nDamn, I looove using Bulgarian expressions in English! ;)',0,'1','Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; bg) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01','',5941,0),(4489,4284,'Kellie Gurgutov','connorsk@gmail.com','','71.81.18.37','2011-02-04 21:24:35','2011-02-04 19:24:35','The way \"Diana\" explained the recipe is the way my mother-in-law makes the musaka(Bulgaria).   She does add bit of flour in the yogurt and egg mixture, to make it thick and 5 minutes before removing from the oven, we put it on boil and it gets nice and brown.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4480,0),(5944,4594,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','68.210.167.150','2011-03-24 17:02:06','2011-03-24 15:02:06','Carolyn, I\'m wondering what kind of store you shopped at in the US.  Here (truly middle America, unlike either DC or Walla Walla) people usually put their oranges and carrots in separate bags so they can be weighed at the check-out counter, or the produce is prepackaged which is more and more common.  If you shop at the local produce market on Saturday, you tend to put your loose vegies together and re-use or tote your bags as well.  I think that in general the US does way more packaging, both prepackaging and onsite bagging, than most countries I\'m fairly familiar with which is a pretty short list: Germany, Russia, England.  The exception in middle America (specifically urban Kentucky) is that a minority percentage of green-inclined people now tote their bags with them to any shopping opportunity and may re-use their plastic vegie bags as well.  We\'re doing better, in terms of single-use bags, but we have a long, long way to go.  Bulgaria doesn\'t sound THAT much different, except that you-all sound more inclined to toss plastic bags into the environment and not pick them up.  However, we have plenty of neighborhoods where that happens here as well.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010111021 Camino/2.0.6 (like Firefox/3.0.19)','',5924,0),(5525,4390,'Nick O','nouzounov@gmail.com','','213.16.33.229','2011-03-08 17:21:26','2011-03-08 15:21:26','Happy belated Baba Marta! Nice posting about what I consider one of the coolest pagan traditions that have survived to this day. Glad you are spreading the word to the States and beyond ;)\r\n\r\nI\'m kind of happy you didn\'t find a Justin Bieber martenitsa. This would be the last straw. The recent arrival of all these plastic fakes really kills the whole meaning behind Pijo and Penda. Justin Bieber will be the final victory of consumerism and plastics over symbolism... OK, I got a bit carried away but you know what I mean.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(5041,4306,'Anjela','adeya90@gmail.com','http://adoseofdelight.blogspot.com','216.221.76.115','2011-02-21 05:08:28','2011-02-21 03:08:28','I just stumbled upon your blog, and it\'s so interesting! I\'m a Bulgarian living in Canada, and it\'s so neat to read about your journey in Bulgaria.\r\nAlso, this musaka with mushrooms looks delicious! A job well done ;)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(4533,4291,'helen','evelikova@hotmail.com','http://just-helen.blogspot.com','95.87.210.128','2011-02-06 14:32:22','2011-02-06 12:32:22','exactly :)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',4531,0),(4537,4291,'Bobby','lordnosfy@gmail.com','','87.120.221.253','2011-02-06 19:46:16','2011-02-06 17:46:16','All credit for the giggles should go to helen. Me, I\'m just an overly serious schmuck who can\'t keep his explanation fetish in check :P',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',4531,0),(4542,4291,'MoM','djemigh@charter.net','','68.189.135.181','2011-02-06 21:14:15','2011-02-06 19:14:15','When I was attending a girl\'s school in England (many years ago), the first time someone asked me if I had a rubber, I was struck speechless. You know that doesn\'t happen to me very often.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',4531,0),(4546,4291,'Ruth','ruth.spangler@gmail.com','','72.147.142.205','2011-02-06 22:31:21','2011-02-06 20:31:21','True, very true.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7','',4542,0),(6024,4572,'Rumi','rumyana88@gmail.com','','95.111.75.13','2011-03-27 11:14:00','2011-03-27 09:14:00','Well, what you said sounds pretty strange to me. I personally hate text messages and I find them very annoying and demanding. I would also never go out for a date with a boy who texted me instead of calling me... And I see no problem with talking on phone while on the bus. I don\'t mind that at all, if I meet a person I know at the bus I will talk to him, so I think talking on the phone on the bus is the same as talking with your friends on the bus. I\'m happy Bulgarian people are not maniacs about such things and don\'t always follow some stupid rules, they still feel free. But I also don\'t like people who accept calls all the time. Even in class. This is stupid. But it\'s just as stupid to exchange text messages in class.\r\nI think that texting will take a lot more time that calling so when you call you save time. It also sounds a lot more personal. I personally find texting rude and stupid, it\'s also inconvenient and boys who invite you for a date with a message lack the courage to call you.\r\nHave you ever seen things this way?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(5123,4345,'Inga','inga.stirnaite@gmail.com','','78.109.14.131','2011-02-23 09:33:55','2011-02-23 07:33:55','I think it\'s quite common to boil potatoes with their skin and then peel, at least it is in Lithuania and I have seen people do it in Finland as well. To me it just tastes better this way.:)',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)','',0,0),(6023,4641,'Vesey Crichton','vesey@cleves.bg','http://www.cleves.bg','109.154.119.221','2011-03-27 10:27:06','2011-03-27 08:27:06','Great list - many thanks!  Here\'s another which I enjoyed...\r\n\"The Good Balkans: Adventure Between Old and New Bulgaria\" - By Jack Hamilton\r\n(After reading, I loaded this as a review on Amazon\'s UK site: \"Bulgaria is a beautiful country, and gets excellent guidebook coverage. But if you yearn to get behind the scenes there\'s surprisingly little. So it has been a big treat to read The Good Balkans. Jack Hamilton has lived here through interesting years, seems fearless in his explorations, and is an entertaining and engaging writer. I loved the book, and learned a lot.\")',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(6022,4600,'karolinka','carolyn.emigh@gmail.com','','46.249.71.82','2011-03-27 10:23:37','2011-03-27 08:23:37','@Charlotte And this is what little-State-side-sisters are good for!!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',6019,1),