What about Bulgaria

Originally posted by Komnenos What do I think about Bulgaria? Remember the 10/7/1994? Letchkov and all that?

16/7/1994 was more interesting

my mothers father came from a village around rodops they say dobroce to bulgaria something like that

If you see in the previous page, I have been to Bulgaria.

everyone knows the real Rakija comes from Yugoslavia(all the countires in it)

I'm not sure where rakija comes from, but saying that it doesn't come from Bulgaria but from Macedonia is quite a lauph, because from 811 A.D. to 1945 the term Bulgaria equaled the term Macedonia. Or, to be more precise, Macedonia was part of Bulgaria. It's like saying that something doesn't come from the U.S.A., but from Florida. Another important thing in Macedonia today is the process of re-bulgarization of its slavic population. Every day the Bulgarian embassy in Skopje is crouded with candidates for Bulgarian citizenship. To receive it you have to prove your Bulgarian ethnic origin!!!

Albanians have made an altogether different variation of it. I dont know what we add to it, but I remember tasting my friends Greek raki once(we were bored in his house and thought lets just get drunk and play street fighter) and it tasting more... as you said ... bitter.

My dad likes to keep it in water bottles, I used to play nice jokes on my friends sometimes , we would come to my house on a hot day and he would rush for water, I would hand him a bottle(I did it once to different people) and he just drank from it. LOL!!! I stopped when i realized that Albanian raki cannot be found anywhere in America and I was wasting it like a moron....



Edited by Iskender Bey ALBO

Originally posted by Iskender Bey ALBO Albanians have made an altogether different variation of it. I dont know what we add to it, but I remember tasting my friends Greek raki once(we were bored in his house and thought lets just get drunk and play street fighter) and it tasting more... as you said ... bitter. My dad likes to keep it in water bottles, I used to play nice jokes on my friends sometimes , we would come to my house on a hot day and he would rush for water, I would hand him a bottle(I did it once to different people) and he just drank from it. LOL!!! I stopped when i realized that Albanian raki cannot be found anywhere in America and I was wasting it like a moron....

Great pranksters think alike...

I've also been to Bulgaria and liked it a lot. I've been to a reastaurant up the mountain that is next to Sofia (can't remember the name) and enjoyed folk music and some dancing as well. Many tunes were similar to Greek ones and the food was excellent. I'll be there again next month.

Raki has approximatelly 40% alcohol. But we don't call it raki everywhere. In Samos we call it "Suma", in Crete they call it "Tsikoudia" & "Raki", in Northern Greece "Tsipouro" and I'm not really sure where else in Greece they call this drink "Raki".

Raki is a totally different drink from Ouzo, they taste very differently.

I'm affraid I didn't climb much, I've been driven there by car

I don't know the name of the place but it was a very "classy" one and looked like a mountain chalet. I saw Stoichkov & Konstantinova (sp?) there, they were having some kind of party!

Yiannis is oooooooooooooooooold 

To eat in the same restaurant with Hristo Stoichkov requires deep pockets indeed. But I guess in Bulgaria everything is very cheep compared to Greece. How's life in the E.U.? Do you travel a lot?