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Issue 69

This kind of hats spelled importance and social stature even though they looked as if they would fall off when the women wearing them moved. In the meantime, they (the women) walked as if a Clytemnestra or a Hecuba from the golden days of Troy appeared onstage.

Issue 59-60, August-September 2011

"Bulgarian peasants are suspicious and mistrustful of strangers."

Issue 57-58, June-July 2011

"I have never met anyone who had been to Bulgaria."

Issue 55-56, Apirl-May 2011

"I could never meet with any very satisfactory explanation as to why Sofia was chosen above all others as the capital of the country."

Issue 53-54, February-March 2011

"No, you keep it," said Stalin.

 Issue 51-52, December 2010 - January 2011

I asked the pope: "Is this a Greek or a Bulgarian monastery?" He replied, "We are Greeks," but on my addressing a few words to him in that tongue, he answered in Bulgarian that he could not speak Greek.

Issue 49-50, October-November 2010

"Are you aware that a certain Bulgarian, Elia Gospodinoff, once played the bagpipes for twenty-four hours without a stop? Ripley vouches for this in his Believe It Or Not."

Issue 47-48, August-September 2010

"The regime had for us three essential characteristics. First, it claimed it operated according to a Communist ideology. Second, it used terror to control its population. Lastly, life under this regime was governed by personal interest and the will to power."

Issue 45-46, June-July 2010

King Boris made a dramatic defence of his country and of his people. He stated his firm belief in the healing virtues of time and his profound mistrust of all policies of adventures.

Issue 43-44, April-May 2010