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New wine cellars to open in Bulgaria in 2013

February 8, 2013May 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Eleven new wine cellars will start working in Bulgaria in 2013, Krassimir Koev, executive director of Bulgaria’s executive agency for

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Leisure Perspectives 

Travel: Fair or not?

February 8, 2013May 22, 2013 Mark Thomas

If your train from Sofia to Stara Zagora or your bus from Rousse to Varna is cancelled due to snow

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Film review: The Last Stand

February 8, 2013February 7, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

There is a kind of cheap thrill one gets reading the title of the latest film with Arnold Schwarzenegger in

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Film review: Hitchcock

February 8, 2013February 7, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Hitchcock doesn’t show us what a great man the Master of Suspense was as much as it shows us what

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Wine: Growing Slovakia’s wide range of grape varieties

February 7, 2013May 6, 2013 Jana Liptakova of the Slovak Spectator

Have you ever tasted Hron, or Devín? This is not an invitation to drink from the waters of the Hron

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Saxony: Wine has flourished where the wall couldn’t manage

February 7, 2013May 6, 2013 John and Helena Baker for The Prague Post

From Prague, the nearest foreign wine region lies just a little more than 70 miles (120 km) to the north.

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Bulgarian transport minister Ivailo Moskovski inspects new BDZ sleeping cars
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Bulgarian state railways’ new sleeping cars to come into service in March 2013, Transport Minister says

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian state railways BDZ’s 30 new sleeping cars, which Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski took delivery of amid much fanfare in

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Travel: Game changing

February 1, 2013February 1, 2013 Mark Thomas

Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France and BA have one problem with their European flights; they lose money with them

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Film review: Gangster Squad

January 31, 2013January 31, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Gangster Squad is a big-budget film about the organized crime that nearly brought Los Angeles to a standstill in 1949.

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