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Had an incredibly traumatic/amazing trip to Bulgaria once (kind of a ‘goodbye’ week with an ex). Despite that situation I thought Sofia was amazing. Agreed that the language is totally alien to a westerner, but the flea market by the old church, the various relics of each period of history, the military museum, and that ridiculous taxidermy in the natural history museum... I would love to go back under different circumstances.
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Yeah we liked Sofia. Pleasantly tatty and a good art/music scene, from what limited time we spent there.
My experience of Bulgaria is kind of the opposite to yours in that I proposed to my wife there :-)
Right - sorry about thread derail. I had a watch question:
Since browsing this thread, I’ve gone from disliking divers to wanting one. My budget is at the lower end of the spectrum - what would I get for <£200?
AlexD
I’d aleays heard that Turkish was an easy language to speak, in that it’s supposedly quite phonetic - once you know what the accents and some of the pairs of letters (excuse my ignorance of the correct terms) do, you just sound it out.
In practice, that was not my experience of speaking Turkish :-)
Went to Bulgaria once - that’s a fun language to try and read!
Also, the nodding/shaking for yes/no bring reversed - took me till the last day I was there to get the hang of, then we went to Romania where they do it the way round we do.