This is an advertisement in a food store window near my apartment. They do, in fact, sell cucmbers and I often buy them to make delicious traditional salads.
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This blog consists of my own experiences, opinions and views. While I am a Peace Corps Volunteer, this blog does not necessarily reflect the views of the Peace Corps or the United States Government.
This blog consists of my own experiences, opinions and views. While I am a Peace Corps Volunteer, this blog does not necessarily reflect the views of the Peace Corps or the United States Government.
3 comments:
Hm, Ms. W, very nice picture indeed. It took me a while to figure out where it was made, until I saw the reflection of the old heating oil station and the blocks behind. Not sure if you know, but the reflection is of an old heating oil station (naftostancija). It was very popular to have oil heaters some years ago - no ashes and so on. Later this became an expensive solution, so this is why the station was abandoned. I wonder if they are using it for something else now.
Anyway, the picture is very cool, because it mixes in a very original way the old and the new Svishtov. Like in Stephen King's "It" the old town transpires through the new one, for those who can see it. Good job, even if unintentional :)
Zdravko,
Lake Jackson, TX
Zdravko,
Thanks for the info about naftostancijata. I had wondered what that old building was. They are not using it currently, although they are putting in a new bank across from it (it seems like a new bank branch or mobile phone store opens here every week).
It is a strange experience being an "outsider" here; at times I feel like I am walking through a modern archealogical dig of sorts, with these remnants of a past way of life surrounding me. Except this past way of life was the childhood of even young people like me (late 20's)! It is hard to wrap my head around sometimes.
The reflections in the photo were really a fortuitous accident. It was too sunny to see anything in my camera's digital display and, since I wear glasses, my view through the view-finder is not always exactly like the photo. I ended up really liking it when I uploaded it to my computer!
No other country can mix uber-conservativism with outlandish anything-goes liberalism like Bulgaria. I've pondered that poster myself.
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