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Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Would you ban trophy hunting in Africa?

May 14, 2017June 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Sofia Science Festival

Let’s have a show of hands. Who’s heard of Cecil the Lion? And if you could, would you ban trophy

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Bulgaria Videos 

Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Of Patagonia and disappearing glaciers

May 14, 2017May 17, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, Sofia Science Festival

Eñaut Izagirre is a ski-mountaineering specialist with ski and climbing experience in the Pyrenees, Norway and the Alps, and recently

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Podcast: Whisky time with Ewan Henderson of the Lost Distillery Company at the Sofia Science Festival

May 12, 2017May 14, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Sofia Science Festival

At the 2017 Sofia Science Festival, Ewan Henderson – global ambassador for the Lost Distillery Company – took an enthusiastic

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Bulgaria Now podcast: The long arm of the law, a fistful of euro, and fingerprints too

November 4, 2016November 6, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

This week, two years to the day that Bulgarian law enforcement swooped on customs officers at the Lesovo border checkpoint

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Bulgaria 2016 elections podcast: ‘I don’t support anyone’ – except Felix the cat

October 27, 2016October 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

More than six million Bulgarians inside the country and abroad are being called to the polls in November 2016 to

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Podcast: Blessed by God and the queen of sex

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

Takis Dretakkis, general manager of the Premier Luxury Mountain Resort in Bulgaria’s Bansko, tells Bulgaria Now’s Lance Nelson about his

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People Videos 

Podcast: Bulgaria’s Bansko after 25 countries in 25 months

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts, tourism

Brit Sarah Carter and her husband spend the summer in Bansko having visited 25 countries in 25 months. She was

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Bulgaria Now podcast: Love leads to Bulgarian wine tours

September 29, 2016September 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Plovdiv, podcast, podcasts

Danish-born Zina Sorensen and her Bulgarian partner set up bulgarianwinetours.com in 2015, offering tours of Bulgaria’s wine regions to introduce foreigners

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Bulgaria Now podcast: The Trump grumps, Hillary hilarity and Bokova knockover

September 23, 2016September 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Rossen Plevneliev

The first television debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is just days away, on September 26. Coincidentally, that same

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