I was Told to Skip Sofia Bulgaria but I Didn't Listen

[@elenaweiss8273]

Alcohol and cigarettes were not banned during communism, but only licensed Bulgarian brands were sold, which no longer exist, with the exception of the "Sunny Beach" brandy. On the other hand, people made homemade brandy and wine for personal consumption. Greetings from Varna, Bulgaria!

[@stefantsarev4442]

We still make them to this day, and they are better than what is sold in the shops.

[@haudtalis5036]

The Cyrillic alphabet became the basis of writing for 108 languages. States using the Cyrillic alphabet: 8 Slavic countries: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 5 non-Slavic countries: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Mongolia. 4 countries that switched from Cyrillic to Latin script after the collapse of the CIS: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan.

[@locotenentrocket1551]

Moldova is latin

[@haudtalis5036]

@@locotenentrocket1551 Congrats! 😀

[@stan3110]

A country named Macedonia does not exist.

[@haudtalis5036]

@@stan3110 Will the full name (from 12 February 2019) Republic of North Macedonia suit you?

[@stan3110]

@@haudtalis5036 Yes. North Macedonia is the real name of the country.

[@JustL00kingYeah]

Hey, thanks for visiting man and popularizing our country! We do appreciate respectful guest like you

[@Michael.Virtus]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="57">0:57</a> - On your left you can partly see the inscription: "Ministry of Environment and Waters". <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="85">1:25</a> - The Synagogue is right behind this building. This building is a historical (old) shopping center. Working as such from old times (late 19 century) all the way to today as a municipal property. Recently rented by international supermarket chain. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> - Slaveikov Square (named on one of our most famous writes). The statues on the bench are father and son Slaveikov (both famous public figures). For decades this square was a cult place where books were sold on stalls. In recent years, the municipal council voted to discontinue this activity. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="359">5:59</a> - "Мома" (Moma) means Maiden (unmarried young woman). You can see inside all the paintings of maidens. It's a rather pricey restaurant but the food and the cooking is of pretty good quality. It's mainly traditional cuisine with traditional (i.e. old fashioned) accessories and atmosphere. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="760">12:40</a> - Incorrect info. During the Communist Era everything was state property. So the state was producing everything. Including alcohol. So alcohol was definitely not illegal, since the state was producing and selling alcohol. Maybe you heard about being illegal to sell your own alcohol production (or any production, since private business was forbidden), people brew alcohol at their homes - mostly in the province and villages, not in the big cities. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="950">15:50</a> - Correct. Cyrillic alphabet was invented by us. However this historical fact is not well accepted in the other countries using the Cyrillic alphabet, they are not particularly happy with this fact and you can expect them to start arguing about it and try to downplay it. Good little video. You didn't saw even 1% of Sofia, but it's better than nothing. Cheers.

[@venzokostadinov6858]

Slaveikov is father and son , i hope you are not Bulgarian

[@dedoroz]

"The statues on the bench are Slaveikov brothers." Тц. Баща и син, Петко и Пенчо.

[@Michael.Virtus]

@@dedoroz Да бе, братле, брейнфартнах хаха. Моя грешка. Едитнах го. Мерси за корекцията.

[@Dzhordana]

1. Не сме живели в "комунизъм". Вечно го "строяхме". Живеехме в социализъм. През 80 години, на които бях свидетел - в доста родолюбив социализъм. 2. Не е вярно, че всичко е било държавно. Всяко семейство имаше частна собственост - къща, кола, обзавеждане и т. н. В селата - и собствен частен двор, от който много хора изкараха собствена частна продукция и продаваха. Официално. В по-голям мащаб, земята, която се обработваше индустриялно не беше държавна собственост. Беше на кооперации. Местни (градски/селски) структури - "ТКЗС". Cheers

[@user-eh2jk6mf9s]

​@@DzhordanaПравим алкохол в задния двор от векове

[@thefitfrench]

Brooo Bulgaria is awesome Don’t want to leave ever Glad that you enjoyed it!

[@xaoccc]

You tried rakia, didn't you? 😄

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

Summer time in Sofia-most people have left the city

[@vco7531]

i wish 😒

[@QuantumBraced]

Thank you for visiting Sofia. It is a very underrated city, definitely a hidden gem.

[@elenadimitrova6800]

Най красивата !Бог да благослови България и Българите където и да са по света, и всички мирни и честни хора ❤Амин ❤🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🙏🧡

[@GachaMoon_Alex]

Мхм ❤

[@Peter46350]

Най-красивата!

[@Dzhordana]

Амин! ❤️🇧🇬❤️

[@gg13308]

I love how you walk around and explore. The tree lined streets were cool and natural sprints are cool..Thanks for taking us along with you. I enjoy seeing things through your eyes especially as a solo female traveler

[@GDD7776]

Alcohol and cigarets were never illegal in Bulgaria. It is even funny to think that. Bulgaria was one of the largest producers of cigarets. It was illegal to make and sell unlicensed alcohol from your garage like it is now. But making your own and buying from shops was always legal and actually cheep. By the 90s most of the families will produce their own wine and rakia from grapes or fruits. When I was a child in the 80s the very normal thing was to drink after school from the slightly fermented grape juice “ blagushka or shira” before it turned to wine :). It is so so weird to hear that alcohol was forbidden 😂as you can be 10 and buy your father cigarets and alcohol

[@stan3110]

Sofia was founded 8100 years ago and is not only the oldest city in Europe but one of the oldest cities in the world. Rome, which was founded in 753 BC is like a newborn baby compared to Sophia, which was founded 6100 BC or 5347 years before Rome. Two of the oldest churches in the world, built in the early 4th century, are located in the center of Sofia, the rotunda of Saint George and Saint Sophia, after which the Bulgarian capital is named.

[@VascoE-q7t]

Sofia was founded million years ago by the aliens and Bulgarians shaped the future of human kind. Alex The Greatov, Julko Cezarov, Zeuzov and even Barak Obamov are from Sofia.

[@bellatordei3440]

🤣🤣🤣🤣💊

[@radoslavpetkov]

Много ми харесва патладжани да се мислят за лютеница!

[@The92Ghost]

You might want to double check those facts.

[@stan3110]

@@The92Ghost Ignorant people need to check the facts and obviously you are one of them.

[@Ncharlop]

Sofia is a way underrated city, glad you gave it a little spotlight.

[@vdivanov]

Thank you for visiting! It’s always fascinating to see yourself, your town, your culture, your history through someone else’s eyes, who is curious (and brave ;) to learn about them in person and generous to share them with others.

[@slyslife]

Thanks a lot!

[@AnaViolinViola]

The Balkan is actually the other name of The Old Mountain (Stara Planina), right in the middle of Bulgaria. The Balkan Peninsula is named after it 😊

[@plonss]

I never heard that alcohol was forbidden in communist times. I think it is not true.

[@knopkaplay0507]

Not sure about bulgaria - but in the Soviet Union it was - around 1986, for a couple of years. Decimated our vineyards,.one of the worst decisions ever - and as a "prohibition", it was not very effective.

[@АндрейНеважно-б6ъ]

Сухой закон, я думаю все страны и режимы проходят, через него.

[@plonss]

@@АндрейНеважно-б6ъ So was it forbidden ?

[@Palych200]

@@plonss From what I found, no.

[@MariaMagdalena-cf7ew]

It wasn't banned, I think he confused it with Al Capone's America and the prohibition of 1920. I remember that on the day the country was liberated from the fascists every year there were shows with a lot of cheap beer.

[@bubabing3036]

Thank you for showing my home town in such a beautiful way! 💕

[@SBmasta441]

I had heard bad things about Sofia too (from a Bulgarian friend) but I actually really liked it there. The architecture is beautiful, there are some quirky streets with the trams, and the mountain right there was cool. Much better than Bucharest imo.

[@justendmenow2947]

I used to live in Sofia, but moved out around 2 years ago. Each time I take a look at such a video I kind of want to cry. I miss my home town. Great video!

[@anonymous6594]

Loving your travels throughout Eastern Europe. I guess Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia are coming up.

[@ultramemes955]

В целом очень интересный тур по Восточной Европе. Надеюсь дальше на балканы пойдешь! Довольно колоритные места. Центральная Европа всем наскучила...

[@lilviacheslav3229]

Шгш в Болгарию приехали может он видел уже ?

[@bergklezmer]

Болгария - это Балканы

[@Iamblacklight]

I've been to Varna in Bulgaria 4X and i love every second of it.

[@TheFiddle101]

I'm a foreigner in Bulgaria and I love it. This is a lovely walkabout film, thank you. In Sofia, the Synagogue is 50 metres away from the Mosque.

[@Петърчо]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="739">12:19</a> We call those stores/kiosks "мазегинче" which is a clever word play. Мазе = Basement Магазинче = Diminutive name for store. So мазегинче is a diminutive name for a store in the basement, which what this basically is.

[@StartLivingNow1963]

🙂❤👍 Thank You Sly Safe Travels 🙂❤👍

[@p0pov13]

Awesome. So close to Serbia, really hope you come!

[@danielp415]

I appreciate how you don't try to hype up or talk down a place. You just show it, even if its boring. Thanks for these, man

[@weakness.detector]

I just love how foreigner explorers always stay around bulevard Maria Luiza, which is like 3 mins away from me so I randomly show up in their footage every now and again.

[@multiz0rak]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="595">9:55</a> it's lev, lei were in romania

[@NicolasDudic-ph4kd]

Well done,Nice vidéo !! and amazing city. Thanks

[@sv130.a]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="135">2:15</a> Converting to muslam was the law in the Ottoman empire. Christians would get severely punished for resisting. Any Christian church in the empire had to be shorter than a Muslim riding a horse. There have been a lot of mass murders because the Bulgarians refused the conversion. Christians had to pay higher taxes and had a bonus tax - the blood tax (devshirme). It involved the Ottoman soldiers going from door to door in settlements looking for young, strong Christian boys, and if a kid was Christian, but a girl or a weak and ugly boy, they had the full right to kill them in place. Once they have collected the young boys, they would bring them to deeper parts of the empire and convert them to Muslim, training them in a very brutal way and basically turning them into super soldiers. Those soldiers were the bodyguards of the ruler and a substantial part of the army. Those soldiers (who are just brainwashed Bulgarians) would burn and ravage settlements when the empire felt dissatisfied. Some events associated with the whole Ottoman empires leadership in Bulgaria are countless times Bulgarians have rebeled and failed, and the bloody punishments after attempts to be free (Batak after the April Rebellion). The whole thing is very well documented by the country's finest writers - Ivan Vasov, Hristo Botev, etc. The Ottoman empire left a huge mark in the history of Bulgaria, but it has made a lot of beautiful literature and a reason for Bulgarians to be proud

[@petersoakell6950]

Superb vlog. Subbed. Thanks.

[@deepblueskyshine]

During colder seasons Saturday is the busiest day in Sofia - all the office plankton go out to do their shopping, but in the hot dwellers of Sofia if not on a longer paid leave vacancies by some near or distant seashore during the weekend most of them are in mountains, SPA resorts or by water reservoirs or rivers (there aren't large natural lakes in Bulgaria). Generally, in any hot summer day people of Sofia are crawling out around 6-7pm and popular parks and squares are crowded till 10-11pm.

[@AShvets-zq9gc]

You should visit every Balkan capital, really. Great places

[@RositsaPetrovarjp7]

Alcohol was never forbiddenin Bulgaria. We were never part of the Soviet Union

[@fradan777]

Bro, you need to get some serious history education 😂, your country WAS part of the Soviet Union

[@user-qm5rq]

@@fradan777 are u nuts?? Educate yourself

[@user-ul9zt2ww6o]

​@@fradan777 Болгария никогда не входила в состав Советского Союза. Вы очень ошибаетесь.

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

​@@fradan777no we were not

[@fradan777]

@@user-qm5rq my bad, you're right

[@BaHDuTkA]

Sofia is usually empty during the summer because everyone goes to the seaside, especially in July and August. Also, it is very, very hot during the day in the summer, so that`s why there are no people on the streets. The population here is 1 281 040, but when autumn comes it's a lot more, because of all the students.

[@stanislavkanin3255]

Highly recommend you to visit Plovdiv too.

[@florakarantinou6176]

For half a century now, the Japanese have been consuming Bulgarian yogurt, and in this way, the name of Bulgaria is being popularized", says Avadzhi. And the Japanese people fall in love with "Bulgaria yogurt" or "Bulgaria" yogurt.

[@iliyanatanasov7556]

They are the only ones that managed to cultivate the yogurt bacteria and started production😊

[@maafakasog]

they have much better bacterias than this fecal lactobacillus that we make milk there are much more better bacterias that can make a yoghurt XD

[@TheFiddle101]

The French love it too

[@Yana-o6s]

Bravo!!! 👌👏 Sofia is an amazing capital, i ❤ it!! You didn't listen to the haters👂😭 Appreciate that❤❤❤

[@irfanaslamkhan1897]

You are well versed , I like your videos.

[@wildrose2662]

Good laid back video. I always love your food choices! I hope you visit the new St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, there in Sophia. It's so beautiful, and one of the largest in the world. Ask if you can film inside.

[@QuantumBraced]

Alcohol, cigarettes, etc. were definitely not illegal under communism. These basement shops are just a thing but they're not linked to any prohibition era-like past. Bulgarians have been happily drinking alcohol for centuries, you should have tried rakia when you were there, it's our signature drink.

[@DimitarUzunov81]

Yes. You can skip Sofia very easy and should visit Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo and other smaller towns like Karlovo, Gabrovo or Koprivshtitsa. You can also taste the same food there.

[@dwartbg1]

Lmfao, sure bud

[@alex-em4em]

true, Sofia has nothing special to be shown there.

[@Petko_09]

​@@alex-em4emархитектура, някои хора се интересуват от трамвай и Метро линии ходят да ги разглеждат, също така ако имаш повече време щях да ме препоръчам да отида на Витоша и много други неща има

[@alex-em4em]

@@Petko_09 в София няма архитектура, а метрото е мизерно. Единственото което видях са вандалски графити на всеки ъгъл.

[@Petko_09]

@@alex-em4em брото завижда, как нямаме архитектура бе палячо. Брото се разходил мъничко и хайде, вече всичко му е мизерно

[@blklex71]

Sly you are still doing your thing. I never miss your videos. It seems like you are trying to visit every county in the world. I’m glad you are out here!

[@blagovestpeshev1803]

The first I hear making attention to the name! Thank you! And "super topcheta" is hilarious :D

[@FlyWithVeiga]

So jealous bro! I hope to go some day soon !! 🔥

[@DelvingDeeper]

There are a few things you got wrong but ultimately I appreciate you actually read up on Bulgaria and showed your viewers around parts of Sofia. Loved the chill vibes of your video and how you calmly and curiously wandered around and explained stuff. Keep it up. Got a sub from me.

[@ekaterinatchikina3267]

Who told you that during the summer times alcohol was illegal???😂 it’s ridiculous ,believe me. Unlike those people I still remember that time. We lived a normal life like a everybody else with alcohol and all that.

[@Simona0707]

normal life? with coupons for milk and bread, empty shelves and brainwashing from the party. It was so good, that the borders were closed so nobody would leave "paradise" 🤣

[@mvarbanoff]

"Creators of the cyrilic alphabet" yeah, probably the first thing you heard :) As russians often forget that fact. Big on yogurt also true. MIneral water....spot on. I'm surprised you dont have anything about roses on your phone. Mate , I dont know you , but you did an amazin job introducing my country! Never been to Moma (Unmaried girl) and i was planning to and its good to see the menu. So, usefull for us bulgarians as well! Thank you, my friend ! Oh, by the way your pronounciation of Sofia is amazing !

[@evilbabai7083]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="627">10:27</a> that's a polite way to say "houses are vandalized much more", because what I've seen in the video is pretty far away from what graffiti, murals and street art are in my book - those are supposed to make spaces look nicer, and that is definitely not the case here.

[@alex-em4em]

absolutly, this is pure vandalizm. And even after you clean it they come the other night and paint it again!

[@margaritalazova1044]

I loved this. Thank you! Btw, There is free tour for forginers in Bulgaria, starting every day at 12 in the center and they try their best even with sense of humor, now also with spanish speaking guides. We re friendly. When centuries ago almost all other eu countries get rid of the gipsies (i was amazed checking wikipedia and chatgpt), we didn't and we still do our best. We saved all our jews during the ww2 Most of us speak english. I am happy you liked our food, i wish i met you and showed you more and taste more foods like tarator, banichka with bosa, shopska salad and others :) Well i am sorry Kiril and Metodi brothers invented the cyrillic alphabet, because i had to spent more time to learn latin and english, but it's worth it :) Funny that many comments are about how alkohol was never illegal in Bulgaria :) For many people in the country the most popular alkohol - rakia (it can go from 45 to 60 %) was used in various health cases as a remedy from centuries :) For me the taste is terrible:) The people who lived here also first invented the salt yield :)

[@DeoCross16]

Hope you had a nice visit in my home city! There are def a lot of things for improvement but still it's a nice place to visit or to even settle down.

[@Mirko1913]

Welcome to Sofia everyone! Besides being a vibrant city, it could serve as the starting point of one-day trips to a variety of places from medieval monasteries through traditional villages and mountains. Plan for summer as the locals go on vacation meaning less traffic and hussle.

[@dwang247]

Enjoy watching your walks and lunches. 👍

[@dayanbalevski4446]

The seasoning is for the bread, not for the food. It isn't technically seasoning... it is a herbal spice mix specifically for meat and bread.

[@katinakochovska9242]

Damn, you tried! But it's Sofia, not Soufia 😂 Thanks bro. Btw, alcohol has never been illegal. We just have tradition to make our own alcohol in our basements.

[@ki6i]

It isn't a synagogue. Back in the day, it was a food court, and now it is a supermarket with some restaurants on top

[@ianakiinkiow4303]

Take the bus to the Vitosha mountain. It is part of the city buses so it is not considered out of town bus. Bus 66 or bus 61 will take you there. It is so close to the city. Enjoy!!!

[@babiyarnazarismaily6207]

The historic center is destroyed(big part of it)in ww2 by british american bombers without bulgarian army fight the russians or the allies at all,it was revenge for ww1 bulgaria didnt allow british and french armies to attack germany from the balkans from the south(hold them for 3 years,they called bulgaria balkan prussia,cause we dont have lost battle or captured flag),this was operation organised by churchil who was admiral in the british army at that time,sofia was a jewel of architecture and a lot can be seen today,also the comunists demolished many older pieces of art buildings because they were build by the capitalist tzarist government before ww2

[@randomgamer7518]

Looking through your channel you’ve been travelling for the past 6 years! What do you do for work?

[@ФеняЕдренин]

ICA😮

[@stephenstephenson8349]

I think the channel funds his travels

[@stephenstephenson8349]

@@slyisdanamemaybe but its definitely possible seeing as he's pretty frugal.

[@odinzovX]

Первое что бросается в глаза, это повсюду Тэги и граффити на домах, господа чиновники, вы либо совершенно слепые либо вы сами бомбите тэги на домах 🤣

[@odinvolkov1]

причем поражает что они прям везде, в некоторых местах надо лестницу тащить, в некоторых на коленках ползать, и всё ради того чтобы какой дегенерат свой автограф оставил...

[@odinzovX]

@@odinvolkov1 про лестницу зачёт, прям очень посмеялся

[@odinzovX]

@@odinvolkov1 это же специально брали лестницу, чтобы до его тэги не достали и не стёрли когда нибудь, прошареный вандал)

[@Nail_Ziganshin]

на первой минуте огромная вывеска Винбэт, слоты игровые автоматы не смутила?

[@migeletaratantzi2638]

awesome! I wish all the tourists had this kind of a mod

[@MamaBulgaria]

You saw one empty Sofia, because everyone is at the beach during the summer. Honestly I like Sofia in the summer better :) we went to Vitosha today and it was so chill…

[@peterk2735]

Good thing he didn’t visit after 15th September 😅

[@plonss]

I don't know whether you have still time in Bulgaria, but in that case I would go to Plovdiv by example.

[@babiyarnazarismaily6207]

You probably didnt knew that the first computer is invented by bulgarian john atanasov,also first electronic wrist wstch pulsar is invented by bulgarian,the airbag,the telephone secretary,also the ancient bulgarian calendar is declared by unesco to be the most accurate in the world and many more stuff

[@margaritalazova1044]

Yeah, but john atanasov lived in USA, who knows if her was going to invent it here... Thank you i didn't know about the telephone secretary. I would love to add that our ancestors the tracian had so much gold, compared to the world, still struggling in seems another era

[@cuachristine]

You should rename your channel Soup Whisperer!

[@MrDariomag327]

Yup, Sofia is a safe city. Except some areas but we avoid those during the night. Another thing you immediately notice that is in huge contrast with the US is lack of obese people. Food is amazing here. :)

[@AnetaMihaylova-d6f]

It used be good . Not anymore

[@MrDariomag327]

@@AnetaMihaylova-d6f Care to elaborate?

[@NickEnchev]

@@AnetaMihaylova-d6f Its actually quite good. I lived in Canada 30 years, I moved back to Bulgaria and love the quality of food I have access to.

[@Dilomski]

Modern Bulgaria is full of obese people. Кебабчета и банички all day, yo 😅

[@jaredfontaine2002]

Sofia is amazing! I am going there tomorrow getting the bus to Albania!

[@edimi2454]

Never alcohol had been forbidden in Bulgaria. Even during ottoman rule. Not during communism either.

[@peterk2735]

Try telling a Bulgarian grandad he can’t make his own rakia 🤣

[@dvdvideo1234]

You seem like a cool dude ;) Just get rakya ( <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="434">7:14</a> ). It hits pretty hard :D I am personally a fan of the rosE and redberry wine :P

[@nin-nin2]

The synagogue is right behind the building you showed and it is absolutely gorgeous! The building you showed was an old market and now its a supermarket.

[@svetlanaromanova2386]

После России это, наверное, первый город,который не выглядит удручающе. Больше, конечно,похоже на региональный центр,а не на столицу, но атмосферный,уютный,его хочется посетить. Уверена,кухня тоже отличная! Да,много отголосков дружбы с СССР в виде архитектуры и прочего, но это совсем не портит впечатление. Мне этот город симпатичен!

[@peterk2735]

Ако посетите крайните квартали, няма да разберете, че сте извън Русия 😆

[@Javy_Valen_Tain]

I hope you visit every Balcan country, Sly 😊 specially Montenegro.

[@Nubianette]

I’ve heard the food is very good there. Going to Azerbaijan? It’s on my list. It looks beautiful!

[@elinefrit]

For the mineral water you need to cool it down because it very warm and sulfurs(smells like rotten eggs) :D when it comes out but it's pretty good when cool!

[@jefrysaxalexy-jz4nq]

In the summer Sofia is always that quiet. In September everything changes.

[@xaoccc]

Super topcheta lol . The correct name is supa topcheta (balls soup). This is literally soup made of small meatballs.

[@MacDouglas6439]

Belarus you should to visit.

[@yacsem]

Not possible at the moment

[@TheMack177]

@@yacsem Russia is possible, Belarus is not?

[@MacDouglas6439]

@@yacsem Why not possible?

[@criss2528]

​@@MacDouglas6439 Too many orcs. Plus, it is a dictatorship. If you are from US, you wouldn't wanna risk to be locked up, for some invented crime...

[@yacsem]

@@MacDouglas6439 It is possible in theory, but Western governments are advising against all travel to Belarus at the moment. They only generally issue such blanket warnings if there is a credible threat to travellers' lives or liberty.

[@isometrus]

Nooo maan , the seasoning was only for the bread..😅

[@1307stan]

Man, I'm from Bulgaria and I'll tell you that Sofia is not the place I would recommend to visit. Cities such as Varna, Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, Burgas and the resorts along the Black Sea are the places that I think you will like much more.

[@edholohan]

Been there. It's great!

[@georgipavlov6881]

That was quite incomplete list, Sly. The first one I suppose is "Supa topcheta", which is soup with small meatballs. More main dishes are Shopska Salad, Tarator, Banitsa, Mekitsa, Musaka.

[@ky4encetv463]

Bro, you have not lived, until you try bulgarian chicken with rice (in oven) with Кисело мляко (sour milk - the bulgarian milk) on top, or Musaka with sour milk on top, its perfection! Also, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="596">9:56</a> it is bulgarian lev - лев which comes from the old bulgarian word from the old bulgarian language - левъ which means lion. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="755">12:35</a> we call those клек шоп, duck/croutch shop because you have to croutch to shop from it :D <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="825">13:45</a> you are right, we are the fastest dying country in the world, due to low birth rates and emigration. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="839">13:59</a> during the late summer, most of the people are out of the capital and near the seaside on a vacation this is why there are fewer people on the streets, however Sofia is pretty much 70% of Bulgaria's population, due to work deficiency in smaller towns.

[@youme1414]

Nice! Thank you, sir

[@orthodox-mp6hv]

Skip the largest city in the country and its capital? Interesting advice.

[@DOROFDARKNAZ]

RESPECT THE OLDEST CUTURE IN EUROPA

[@antoniodelrey164]

Man, where have you been? Glad to see you again and especially in the country of my forefathers. If you are still there and want to relax and enjoy a very mellow and scenic mountain town, then I suggest Bansko. I really think that will will like it but read up in it and decide yourself Sly. Keep up your travels. Great to see a video from you again and I’m So surprised to see you in Sofia. Plovdiv is another excellent and ancient city. You would like Plovdiv too but there’s a lot of possibilities in that small country just be careful with taxis and gypsies. Just saw you eating and you eat like a Bulgarian too! In the capital, Sofia, and Plovdiv as well as resorts on the Black Sea prices are higher. Check out Bansko 😊🍀I’m very impressed about your knowledge of things there! Alcohol was legal in communist times. I know because I visited there. Talk about head movements for yes and no when you find out.

[@stastoor4143]

Russia still watching you ;)

[@GG9K71]

Ищу скоростную коробку на ГаЗ 53, новую

[@Yana-o6s]

Love from Bulgaria🤍💚❤️(🇧🇬) to Russia 🤍💙❤️(🇷🇺)

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

😂😂😂😂😂​@@Yana-o6s

[@radoslavpetkov]

Карам Уаз-ка монтирах и старо корабно оръдие,не бачка ,няма го крайцера мацва ,че там имаше части....

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

@@radoslavpetkov ???

[@Par_Avion1]

@Sly why don't you ever show your interactions with the locals? Doing so would add more value and personality to your videos. Locals are just as important as food and monuments. Just a suggestion

[@koolix8345]

sofia empties out in the summer. people go on beach vacations usually. im from varna but live in sofia, everyone says that im crazy for staying in sofia for most of the summer and dong spend the time in varna by the beach hahaha

[@Malkatanja]

This is great ❤❤

[@Petko_09]

The best time to visit Bulgaria is late spring, in the middle of may. 😊

[@bosedeesther-x8o]

Thanks for sharing,Are they friendly?

[@Malkatanja]

The Balkans are great ❤😊

[@dollylove3430]

My hope for Sofia is to become the next Milan. Fashion week in Sofia💕

[@mileskendziorski8000]

I went to Bulgaria only for a day, but their ladies are mesmerizing, their food simple looking but unforgettable, just a place that you need to visit at least twice.

[@AnthonyJosh]

I visit Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 in August 2021 and I didn’t encounter many people who spoke English and it was hot 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I also drank the water.

[@Simona0707]

visiting Bulgaria or any Balkan city in the summer that's not near the sea is a bad idea. Its not surprising, the temperatures are always like 40 degrees. Also Sofia is great, but you should really try with Plovdiv-more history, ancient Roman stadium, architecture....or Sunny beach if you like night life and parties

[@AnthonyJosh]

@@Simona0707 yes I agree, most of Europe has been very hot this summer.

[@peterk2735]

It’s cause during the summer most of the younger people leave the city for vacations or going back to their hometowns. I live in the centre of Sofia and right now in September it’s full of tourists and expats now that holiday season is over. Honestly 1/4th of the convos I hear on the street are in English

[@AnthonyJosh]

@@peterk2735 got it

[@balthasarking8570]

Haha finally a youtuber who pronounces Sofia right 😁

[@elinefrit]

Sofia is a working city, so the weekend it's mostly empty from most people who work, they live near by. And yes the cyrilyc is invented in Bulgaria.

[@dimitardimitrov7573]

Like for the Bulgarian pronunciation of Sofia 😊

[@DeniVel1]

Another reason for the quiteness in the city these weeks is that a great number of people are out of the city for vacation on the Black See or in Greece. In september it will be much more different:)