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110A Simeonovsko Chaussee Blvd, Sofia, Bulgaria
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A request for the menue of "halbite" at buld. Praga 18 , Sofia
Hi Rozidim,
I was there once and can recommend you Halbite.
The menue in English is here:
http://www.halbite.com/halbite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=43&lang=en
Here you'll find the beverage:
http://www.halbite.com/halbite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=42&lang=en
Penny G
In Sofia there are so many open pools and bathing-beaches. During the summer they are full of peaople almost every day. And in the weeknds its even hard to find a spare place to spend the day there resting and enjoying the sun and the water...
Its safe to swim, there are life-guards. There are cafes to get a drink or something to eat. And there is music spreading everywhere around...
Bulgarians seem to take some local pleasure in confusing non-Bulgarians with their take on the head-nod. Nodding from side to side, where in many places signifies "no" or something in the negative, means "yes" to Bulgarians. So, when the server at the restaurant asks you if you want more coffee at the breakfast table, a side to side will get you more. The up and down nod will signify no.
Baba (Grandma) Marta is one of the most observed traditions, and marks the end of winter & the beginning of spring.
IN the North, the winter seasons are personalised as a family of two brothers Golyam Sechko (Big Axe -- January) and Malak Sechko (Small Axe -- February) who wreak havoc in people's lives by stopping all normal activity. Their grandma Marta is known to have a rather volatile temper -- laughing one day (and then it's sunny & warm) and fuming & angry the next (cloudy & cold).
On 1 March everyone wears a 'martenica' (pl. martenici). The traditional martenica is a bracelet made of interlaced red and white cotton/wool strands. "Red & white" is the traditional desciption of a healthy person, red is for rosy cheeks, white is for unblemished skin. So by giving you a martenica, people wish you health and prosperity. (An interesting note is that in BG psyche health & prosperity are the two sides of the same thing; you can't have prosperity without health).
There are many popular shapes of martenici, incl. two cherries, a man and a woman (called Pizho and Penda respectively), and while kids wear plastic figurines that have red and white strands. You do not buy yourself one, you receive from & give to other people (family, friends and neighbours), and end up w/ a lot of bracelets & lapel buttons.
The tradition says we should wear them until we see a stork (as a migrating bird, this is the true sign the weather has turned). Undoubtedly, the child delivering fame of the stork plays a role in its selection (the allusion of children as the new spring in the life cycle). Once you see a stork, you tie your martenica to a fruit tree (again, the perpetuation of the idea of harvest & riches). More practically, we wear martenici until about 1 April.
PS. I have been living abroad for many years and can happiliy report that this is a unique custom. If you see a person w/ martenica, he/she is either Bulgarian or received it from a Bulgarian. Ask them! ;-)
If you want to give yourself a break, but have no time to go out of town, go to Sofia-land. To those lucky enough to have seen Disney in its American or French versions, the name will be rather pretentious. But the place is nice both for kids and for their parents. And it sure is perfect for "kids at heart".
there are professional pictures of ballet artists on the walls - thats how they won me! its cute lil space with small dancing and I like one of the bands that use to play there - AHEAD, they dont fill my head with their unpopular pieces but perform popular music and they are good in doing that.
The beer is expensive!:-)
Backstage is not Trendy or Popular with cheesy stuff like Latino dancers or semi-naked ladies, so you can enjoy cool small society of people who are middle management staff during the day (like me) and you might meet some famous ballet star as well! Wish you luck with it:-) I think there is some Face Control
so dress your cutest Vogue stuff and take off the every-day boring jeans and sneakers!
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