Bulgaria
I meet Bistra in Sofia
[Bulgaria] I had a name of someone to look up. Bistra Dragon treated me to a magical day. She was 56 and a retired biochemist who had worked for 30 years in a state research lab. Graduate degrees from the University of Moscow. Work relating to something in proteins. Serious, earnest, devout, enormous energy. We […]
The town of Veliko Turnovo
[Bulgaria] I met two brothers on the street. We went to the family home and ate a huge meal prepared by their mother. Whatever a Babooshka is, she was it. She prepared food in a spare, concrete floored kitchen with walls covered by Playboy and Penthouse magazines full nude centerfolds. Our conversation was entirely focused […]