Travel Reference
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HABITS
»Bulgarians say yes by nodding their head - from side to side.
»Wait staff in most restaurants don't usually serve bread unless you ask for it - and most
don't expect tips either.
»As in other Orthodox Christian countries, the more devout may cross themselves three
times when passing a church, and they also try to never exit a church with your their to the
interior.
TOP MUSIC
(1990) A now-legendary set of recordings from the national female choir.
A rare collection of vintage traditional tracks.
TOP BOOKS
(Kapka Kassabova) An entertaining and thought-provoking memoir of one young wo-
man's experiences growing up in Bulgaria in the last years of communism.
(Deyan Enev) A surrealist collection of stories based on the legends and oddities of the
Bulgarian reality and imagination.
TOP FILMS
2012) This documentary follows three Sofia paramedics challenged by an ever-dwindling
budget.
(1964) Vulo Radev's evocative romance set in World War I.
