Wandering down a new to me road the other morning, I found a green space. I crossed the busy highway, and entered into a grassy area. Overcome with the loveliness of seeing fresh green grass, I wandered in a ways. What I had discovered was Ataturk Kultur Park an oasis in the middle of Antalya. …
On a trip into Old Town in Plovdiv, I decided to explore a house that I had not visited before. Although this home is one of the precious Bulgarian Revival Houses of the 18th & 19th centuries, it is not a museum per say. Instead, it is being used to exhibit an enormous collection of …
In Old Town, there is a concentration of Bulgarian Revival houses and one of these is Stambolyan House. The Bulgarian artist Dimitar Kirov resided in this home in the 1960’s. In the 80’s and 90’s the house was used as a cultural hub of sorts, for artists of the city. Today, Stambolyan is full of …