Sredna Gora at the Village of Svezhen
The third of the four days off because of the National Day of Cultrure and Slavic Script - 24 may, was the first sunny one after the long rainy series from Easter.
It was already 10 when a friend of mine and I were already driving along the Plovdiv - Karlovo road. Unnoticeably the field was going behind while the Sredna Gora mountains were rising up in front of us, and beyond was the realm of the Balkan mountains and nothing else. Chernozem, Dolna Mahala, Pesnopoy, Banya, Beguntsi, Domlyan, Mrachenik. Going through all these villages the number of cars was decreasing at the expense of road curves.
'He who falls in freedom's fight
Dies not - he's mourned
By earth and sky, Nature and beast,
And singers remember him in song...'
These words marked the first part of our adventure. It started soon after passing Mrachenik, when we stopped our car at the beginning of path to the grave of Hadzhi Dimitar - a legendary Bulgarian voivod working for the Libertation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.
This walk appeared to be too short for us so our next stop was the village of Svezhen. Despite the crumbling architectural monuments, we found a good number of memorial tablets paying tribute to past events and honoured people. As well as hope of a better future.
For the next time we left two more paths that we found on our way back home. To reveal the secret of the multicomponent route, please look through the gallery HERE.
Along the Main Street
The building along the main street of Plovdiv are superb. However, there are some rules to follow in order to notice them: 1. to stop window-shopping, and 2. (much harder) to take your eyes off the vivid citizens.
This picture was provoked by a tree lightened from below over the just-after-sunset sky. While I was shaking my hands in search of the perfect composition, I 'stepped' on the opposite building, namely the City Art Gallery.
A Little Bit Chemistry, a Little Bit Physics
It is not bad when a working day ends with a scientific event, and if a cultural component is added, it gets a non-obtuse triangle for sure. It depends on the circumstances, of course. As mine led me to the so-called 'Bermudian Triangle' of the University of Sofia - the three faculties of mathematics, chemistry and physics placed in a close vicinity, this made me to un-disappear unlike the prototypical region in the Atlantic Ocean.
The first 'appearing' photo is made in the Faculty of Physics. The second one marks my successful passing by the Faculty of Chemistry when leaving the Zone just before it got dark.
