Ice cream shop

September 25, 2025 ~ Veselin ~ 2 Comments

This is an ice cream shop. Looks vintage and cool, and I’m happy that it operates. It’s located near the statue of the girl who turnеd her back to the army.

Did I share that I love ice cream? I managed to eat tons of it this summer and I’m not sure I can get away with such ice cream consumption for too long.

This way

September 23, 2025 ~ Veselin ~ 3 Comments

I’m not sure what was supposed to be there. I’m sure I didn’t find it. Found this instead.

Independence Day

September 22, 2025 ~ Veselin ~ 11 Comments

Bulgaria celebrates its independence day today. There were no large crowds because Bulgarians tend to use the national holidays as a reason to go somewhere else.

22nd of September was recognized by the mayor of Sofia, the dude with the red tie. There was a small ceremony with guardsmen, orchestra, and folklore singers. The mayor spoke for a few minutes and said something, although not sure what.

And I captured some Bulgarian flags with landmark and not so landmark sites on the way to the event. The 2nd photo is the St Sofia church, which gave the modern name of our city.

Happy Independence Day to us!

Where’s the ham, human?

September 21, 2025 ~ Veselin ~ 14 Comments

I took some nice photos today, however disproportionally many of them were cats and decided to share them separately from the rest.

So here’s the top 5 cat photos from my daily walk. Which one do you like the most?

Blink and you’ll miss it. Sofia

September 20, 2025September 20, 2025 ~ Veselin ~ 9 Comments

Sofia can give you moments of color and beauty that only exist for brief moments here and there, and only to the people who go out and look. Get behind the wheel and none of that exists. Here are a few moments from my morning walk.

A rose in Sofia Tech Park. Behind – a trace from the real-estate bubble. Not far is the cosplay party G-fest where colorful young people are doing whatever they’re doing. I don’t understand it but their outfits are pretty.

2. A semi-abandoned building near Bulgarian Academy of Science. My usual path doesn’t go there but a door was closed and locked with a padlock. I needed it to be open. So I had to walk around and saw it. These little puffy things? There were a million of them.

3. The beekeeper

Someone is producing honey near BAS. Not sure how that works in an urban area with a very high population density, but as you see from the photo, it happened. These things are hives.

Sofia has the tendency to turn into a jungle and does it here and there. I guess, the bees thrive in those islands wilderness.

Did you like the photos? Drop a comment.