There’s MORE than JUST the INNERCITY in SOFIA, BULGARIA

-18 with the wind chill today yesterday it was -27, Great video, liked the bells, I was wondering if you were going to be going to a Costco or something similar. How about a shopping and snacks video.

About the graffiti, most of them are just some text or so called "tags" which are like signature, so they're no more art than a dog's piss marking its territory, scuse my french.

I'm glad you're enjoying Bulgaria. 😊
Not to be alarmed or anything, but we did have in Sofia -28c for 7-10 days in less than 10 years ago, but it's rare.

Thanks for the video, the bell monument place is definitely the highlight! Glad you found Canada there 😂

Finally someone goes to the better part of town, I would recommend going up past NDK (towards the mountain) into the 2-3 neighborhoods above (Lozenec, Ivan Vazov, Vitosha), you can go by foot to Paradise mall (quite a steep hill) or take the metro there. Those are our old fancy neighborhoods and our YUPy new areas where young families buy apartments if they have a bit more disposable income.

22:50 The amount of cigarettes I've smoked in this exact spot is huge

Catch a train to Plovdiv, Hisarya, Veliko Turnovo and other Bulgarian cities.

Rice puding h😅😂😅 hahahhahaha …..

1:52 you were blocked cause you kept scanning the turnstile on your right while trying to pass through the turnstile on your left. For some unknown reason Sofia Metro is designed for lefties and it can get confusing

ブラガリアじゃない、ブルガリアです。

You can just go Greece for the winter 😉 and come back to Bulgaria in march.

Unfortunately You came when all three aerial lifts/ropeways to Vitosha high area are dysfunctional (long story short: ruling political party of Boyko Borisov arranged privatization of all the municipal business in the mountain park including ski complex and lifts from the city up with the plan to allow the new owners to build hotels on top, but the greens scattered in all the political spectrum inforced nature preservation laws preventing new construction in the park, so the lifts without capital maintenance were stopped due to safety concerns), so the only ways to get there are by foot or by road – car/taxi/bus. It was great to be able in one hour public transport trip from your own door in the capital to get on top of the mountain and start skiing in winter or hiking/biking in the hot summer in a place with panoramic view to the capital, and clean fresh and cooler up to 5°C÷10°C than in the city valley air.

The heat in BG is bigger problem than the cold. And one more piece of advice – Sofia has 2 big problems, air polution in winter and is far away from The Sea. All the same some ppl live there. Dont stay too long in BG – you will fall in love.

this is Kashkaval hihi,yellow bulgarian cheese.There was one woman,when this was made,she made Asembly flag of peace(Asamblea zname na Mira) for the kids,from all world,but she was murdered ,from non bulgarians to be stopped.Plovdiv is the suniest and verry different than Sofia,is hot and oldest in Europe btw:)

Hi, you said in the clip that Bulgaria only became part of the Schengen Area in January. That is not true. Bulgaria became part of the Schengen Area on the 31st of March, 2024. Meaning that if you were flying in Bulgaria from other Schengen states, there was no border control after that date. What happened on the 1st of January was that the border control on land borders with Romania and Greece was also suspended. That's relevant only if you're coming in Bulgaria by car through those two countries.

The red-white building you wondered about is an apartment building.

Целия комплекс и камбаните са останки от социализма. Дъщерята на тогавашния управляващ някой го наричат диктатор Тодор Живков, Людмила Живкова излиза с инициатива за международен детски фестивал за творчество "Знаме на мира" под егидата на ООН. Тези 68 камбани са подарък от страните участнички в този фестивал проведен за първи път в 1979г. специално за този мемориален комплекс.

you must go to Bansko 🙂

The pastry you were asking about is called Кашкавалка (Kashkavalka). It is different from banitsa for it is soft but not flaky (a different type of dough), not as oily, and uses our yellow cheese (kashkaval), which gives it its name. In Bulgaria, we have two main types of local cheeses. The first one is white cheese – Sirene (Сирене). It resembles feta, but it is not as dry. The texture is somewhere between soft and hard; it holds its structure well, and when you process it using heat (baking, pan frying, etc) it only softens but doesn't fully melt. It tends to break easily into crumbs or pieces. The taste is saltier and we use it in the banitsa or salads. The second type of cheese is the yellow one – Kashkaval. Depending on its maturity, it can be harder or softer, and the taste varies from mellow to strong. Still, it is generally softer than the Sirene and doesn't break that easily, doing so in strings instead of crumbs. It is often used in other pastries (not as much in banitsa) or can be breaded and pan-fried, however, under heat, it melts, and you can pull it into chewy strings. Both cheeses can be made from cow, goat, or sheep milk, which bestows them different flavors.

Btw that rotating thingy in the metro is a nemesis of mine. I often struggle to get past it cause I'm never sure exactly where I should place my card or ticket, and you can't mark them more than once on the same station. Anyway, if this happens, talk to the person in the nearby ticket booth, and he or she will unlock it and let you pass.