"Creative Nation"Blog woes continue - Blogger's not interested in my formatting issues so for archive/profile infrormation, to scroll way down.
In meantime, soldiering on with posts.
Photo above c/o R who's been diligently bugging Bulgarin-based contacts to help me with my travel article pitches.
Scenario:
I spend the day trolling about Bulgarian travel sites, deciphering Cyrillic to the extent I can determine a site's usefullness, mining my few Bulgarian travel guides.
Throughout day, with a concentrated flutter at the very end, I skype/email R with my latest finds.
R pesters friends (ostensibly on vacation, like the rest of Europe):
"Courtney's found X-hotel in X, is there anything similiar/newer/more newsworthy in Y?
And so it goes...
Got one live pitch out tonight. Will regroup tomorrow and work on more.
Bulgarian Word of the day:
Bashibazouks: Murderous bands of pomaks and Turks, employed to punish rebellions against th Ottoman Empire. Essentially, Turkish mercenaries...
Balkan-on-the-brain, c
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