Rather than try to say anything more coherent, today I'm just going to tell you some good/hilarious things about Bulgaria. They are in no particular order.
There is a brand of cigarettes here called Merilyn (that's how they spell it, with an e) Slims. The ads/boxes have a pink-hued picture of Marilyn Monroe.
The Bulgarian word for new sounds like novo, but the Cyrillic letter that sounds like n looks like H, and the letter that sounds like v looks like B, so sometimes things are labeled HOBO.
A bottle of beer here means 500ml. Also, one of the Bulgarian beers is called Zagorka, which is a fun word to say.
In pretty much every restaurant, the menu is at least ten pages long, usually with several pages of salads. People here like to eat salad when they drink.
There are coffee machines--the kind that give you watery 'cappuccino' in a little plastic cup--all over the streets.
The heels on women's shoes are often very high, and the streets and sidewalks are often cobblestone or otherwise full of holes. Some women do manage to move effectively in such treacherous conditions, and it's sort of impressive; many don't, and it's sort of hilarious.
If you accidentally put yourself between one kid chasing another kid, you will get tackled.
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