Current Events 57: The Faces of the Dead

April 27, 2022 - The Bulgarians have a custom that I had never encountered anywhere else, and it was in Vidin that I was introduced to it...
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Current Events 56: A Mosque in Vidin

April 21, 2022 - The mosque was not much larger than a private house. A black-bearded man of perhaps forty ushered our group into a room...
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Current Events 55: Vidin, Bulgaria, Part 2

April 13, 2022 - Vidin had a modern central plaza with marble and bronze monuments to soldiers who had died in a plethora of wars. Even w...
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Current Events 54: Vidin, Bulgaria, Part 1

April 07, 2022 - On the morning after our passage through the Iron Gates, the ship docked in Bulgaria. The river port of Vidin was in the...
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