It is already holiday season and even Sofia enjoys its fair share of tourists, easily discernible from the locals with their maps and guides, trying to figure out exactly how lost they are. Even the sidestreets in downtown Sofia are jampacked. I cant't help but make a stroll down memory lane myself.
Exactly a year ago, my wife and I roamed the streets of Paris in much the same fashion, finding a bit of ourselves in this extraordinary city. If you have the eyes for Paris, it will unfailingly deliver beyond your expectations and reveal its charms, regardless of how well acquainted you are with it. Naturally, it isn't a city you would visit with your buddies. It is an experience to be shared with someone special.
This is particularly true of Paris but can be said about any city. I personally feel too much at home in Sofia, having lived here for the best part of the last 20 years (with a couple of minor elopements to Plovdiv) to properly appreciate it as a tourist. However, as part of the Primetime project, I intend to make a guide of my favorite places in the city such as:
the banitza place on Angel Kantchev Street (best banitza ever- steaming hot, with boza of course) or the most peaceful spot where I sometimes go for a read and feel totally at ease,"Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends, marked by no distinguishable line". or my favourite off-city hiking trails ( I can go on like this forever).
