This is the stage in the community of Dragoman where i went with Felicia, my PC friend.  They were having this celebration of their liberation from Turkish occupation in the late 1800s.  They do this every year on or around March 3.  This is a group of babas ( grandmothers) who sang a lot.  They looked like they were having fun.

Young girls in native dress doing traditional dancing.  Very very nice and lots of community involvement.

This is a swamp in that same community, Dragoman, which is very near the Serbian border.  The communists drained the swamp to use the water for irrigating fields nearby but when they were deposed, an NGO came in and has been working to reclaim the swamp...they started with only 2 bird species and now have over 200

Culture shock....this is the interior of the Bulgaria Mall which is right across the street in Sofia from that sorry looking building I had a picture of earlier.  The mall is beautiful !!!!!

This is back in Dragoman...a stork nest that is used year after year.  They aren't here yet...don't know where they go but they come later in march, I think.

 

Another shot of the interior of that mall.

That says "Picadilly" above the word Daily.  Its another grocery store.  Its that cyrillic alphabet...very interesting.

I have seen this sweet doggie here several times waiting for his owner to come out of this groceery store that is downstairs.