The road less travelled in the Rhodope
Fleeing an unseasonably cool and wet July day in Sofia, we headed south to Kurdjali on an organised tour* –
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Leisure
Film review: Prince Avalanche
Prince Avalanche, which is being screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), marks a triumphant return for David
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Film review: World War Z
The opening credits of World War Z are ominous, to say the least. Actual news footage, in which news presenters
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Britain urges holidaymakers to be cautious on balconies
Britain’s foreign and commonwealth office (FCO) issued a travel advisory to British holidaymakers to “take care on balconies in popular
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Film review: Monsters University
Monsters University is having a hard time fitting in. Director Dan Scanlon’s first picture for Pixar Animation Studios simply does
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Film review: The Bling Ring
Three of Sofia Coppola’s five films have been about teenagers. The Virgin Suicides, her début feature, was a poetic period
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Exhibition in Plovdiv marking 60th anniversary of East German uprising
An exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the June 1953 uprising in East Germany is to open in Bulgaria’s second
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Film review: Trance
One couldn’t imagine a more appropriate title than this one. Danny Boyle, who last directed James Franco in the cinematic
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Film review: Man of Steel
Guns blazing, fireballs glaring, smoke rising, people dying. Such is the first 20 minutes of Man of Steel, the latest
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