Local news from your country - Part III (30)

On 1 May,May Day celebrations are held to hail labor and international worker solidarity.The day saw big celebratory events in the years before the democratic changes in Bulgaria.After the collapse of the communist regime in 1989 May Day has continued to be one of the official holidays,but is no longer that important for central government.It is honored mostly by socialists, communists and the trade unions,with the grand concerts and rallies of the Bulgarian Socialist Party taking central stage.

Shot is this 'my country' as in the Emerald Isle or 'my host country' as in Sarko land???

sssh quiet honey the neighbours might wake up and come and ask what we're doing so close together and whether we need pain relief...

I guess it's where you're currently at, is what I was thinking. (I've been away from B. Scotland for many moons, and I doubt I could ever live there again.) So, in my case not GB, but BG! Also it's all EU now, you know.

That's why I'm posting this (link to a) pic here.

I went out this morning to a bigger village, which has a cash machine aka atm, and following that, came across this dude and donkey, walking along the road. This is the main road and it's right alongside the River Danube. Romania is on the other bank.

Where are you going, I asked him?
Istanbul.
Where have you come from?
Belgium!
At that he gave me a friendly wave, and I fancy the donkey smiled too, and they were on their way.

Oops here's the link.

Somehow the whole link isn't active. If you click on the thumbnail it'll get enlarged.

Sixteen people have been killed and another twenty injured as a bus sliced into a throng of tourists near the town of Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria.
The tourists, gathered in the area on the occasion of the religious holiday Ascension Day, or the so called Spasovden, were climbing towards the Bakadzhik peak, when the bus, coming in the opposite direction, cut into them.
Police said a technical malfunction caused failure of the bus's brakes.
The bus was a thirty-year-old charter coach, which had recently passed successfully a technical check-up.
Reports say people, who are gathered in the area for the holiday, are in panic and are worriedly searching for relatives and friends, if they have not seen them for the last few hours.