@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.  

As 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.