In The Press…

I used to have a box with cut outs from the free London daily newspaper Metro with weird and wonderful stories on Bulgaria. I’m no longer in possession of this treasure, but Metro doesn’t dissappoint and continues to produce quality journalism day in, day out.. Here are three examples.

Bulgaria: A boy of 15 is being trained as a bus driver after he stole three in a month. Dimitar Grozev is obsessed with driving buses and the firm he stole from has agreed to pay for two years of training. “Nothing else works”, said police in Bourgas.

Bulgaria: A priest has been arrested for selling marijuana joints to parishioners. Father Kiril Papudov was caught by the drug squad, which said they found 3.6kg of high quality pot at his home. Father Papudov was said to be by far the most popular of the priests working in the north-eastern villages of Kladenci and Borovichene.

Bulgaria: A car thief with just one arm has been jailed for the seventeenth time in Bulgaria after he was spotted trying to force open a car door. Police in the Bulgarian capital Sofia say one-armed bandit Rumen Dimitrov, 50, is just not suited for crime, but can’t seem to give it up.

Bulgaria: A communist theme park that revives life behind the Iron Curtain is to be built with a £2million EU grant. The development in Dimitrovgrad will feature statues of toppled dictators, rifle ranges using Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles and authentically grim restaurants.