December 2019 Sofia Bulgaria: Sofia greets you with wide roads lined with bustling cafes, views of the surrounding mountains, bright yellow trams trundled along busy streets the sweet smell of pastry as you journey through the heart of  city visit see the red building a symbol of the eastern bloc visit statues and monument’s from the communist times Get closer to the local life walking bye street traders selling soviet icons and USSR military caps post Fall of the Berlin Wall. Top Attractions like the Bulgarian Orthodox Cathedral, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built in Neo-Byzantine style beloved to be one of the top 50 largest Christian church buildings in the world, and the Golden Russian St Nicholas Church. Stand bye look up at the Soviet Army monument celebrating the invasion of Bulgaria lending to the country’s communist era. Today sight seeing is easy with bus tours and green electric scooters rented by mobile app on your phone with a range of 25 km in a full charge. The city parks are rich with statues and fountains. Today Archaeological excavations can view and walk around in the city centre. Bulgaria was alone among European countries in refusing to hand over the country’s Jews. A Rescue plan of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews  living on Bulgaria soil during World War II, did not join the more than six million others murdered in Nazi Holocaust death camps. Clifford Norton