Женския пазар / The Women's Market

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Тази страница ще ви запознае с парченца от живота при Женския пазар. Пазарът не е мястото, архитектурата или историята. Женският пазар са хората!

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The Women's Market - a street market in Sofia. This page will introduce you bit by bit to the life of diverse people there. The marketplace is not the site or the historical heritage - its the people!
* There will be an attempt to provide English translation in most posts!

• Anynomous

  14 February 2024

  а така, хубаво да се видят цените! :) | Nice shots, people can see the prices here! :)

• Anynomous

  19 December 2023

  Известни!

  Famous!Translated

• Anynomous

  07 December 2023

  Колегата е снимал по залез..

• Anynomous

  13 March 2024

  Панорамата от едни други празници! | A panorama of another December holidays. (12.2012)

• Anynomous

  04 September 2023

  A Bulgarian Jewish neighbour tells about the small Turkish restaurant on Tzar Simeon Street:

  “Initially, I was looking at all these dark faces entering it and reacted “No way, I will not go there!” Then, so many friends of mine fancied it, that they took me along a couple of times. And now I am there every other day!” ”So, you are not so nervous there anymore?” ”Absolutely not! Even, this happened exactly when the conflict with the Turkish flotilla and Israel was, and we had ...absolutely no problems in it. The best is that.. It’s a Turkish restaurant where Israelis, Arabs, Turkish and Bulgarians eat together! Nobody cares whatever world problems there are. You can speak Hebrew there and nobody will make a note of you. It is very small, unsightly – actually it looks pretty bad – but they’re cooking delicious! Everybody is crazy about this restaurant. ‘Cos they make everything by themselves. Like bread, pitas. People from all over Sofia come there, many Israelis come also, they like it, because we eat more or less the same stuff.”

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• Anynomous

  01 August 2023

  On the issue of farmers leaving the market some 10 years ago: “They are giving it up. The farmer cannot be making this big amount of money! [The municipality asks] 1000-1200, up to 2000 leva [500-1000 euro per month] for the shops here! Please, tell me, what kind of stuff should this guy plant, what kind of pesticides should he use, how is he going to bring it to here [in Sofia], how he will give out a vendor’s wage, so that something is left for him and additionally to pay 24 000 leva in the year for rent!? What is this bulshit!?” “Where do they sell now? At the wholesale centre?” “They gave up! It became clear that the government wants to take more from you than the amount you are actually making. It continues like this. Here, everybody, we are taking loans to pay our rents.”

• Anynomous

  25 July 2023

  "One of the things I like about the Women's Market: the [female] vendors address women customers with "my dearest love" (also with "love"). :) "

• Anynomous

  23 July 2023

  Сред българите, които гледат с подозрение на всичко от Женския, упорито се върти приказката за "котешките кебабчета". Еми, явно котешкото месо е много вкусно, само се чудя кой се бъхти да отстрелва толкова котки всеки ден и защо при тази висяща заплаха популацията при Лъвов мост е все така многобройна и щастливо-мързелива!?

  Among those Bulgarians who suspect everything at the Women's, there is this stubborn tale that the cheap barbecue is made from cat meat. Looks like cat meat is quite nice then, what is really bewildering is, who is putting all the effort to chase so many cats daily, and why the local population at the Lion's Bridge is thriving and lying about under such a threat?

  Снимка: Не-евтина наденица с гарнитура днес (3.70 лв). | Photo: Non-cheap sausage with a side, today (1.85 eur).

• Anynomous

  17 July 2023

  A beauty! Last days counted. Impossible it were to preserve her...?

• Anynomous

  23 June 2023

  The cruel justice of the market street, November 2012 (socio-racial identifications are added to help interpret the situation as a local observer would)

  This evening one Gypsy beggar, of the type with crutches and a blood-stained bandage around the leg, was taken down and kicked over by the (Gypsy) contraband cigarette-sellers: “Crook! Why are you lying to the people!? Scram away, heard what I said!” “Ha, look at him how nicely he walks now!” (as he tried to limp away), “Scra...m!” The dozens of passers-by (Bulgarians) were bedazzled by the aggression, and the dilemma whose side to defend.

  The other day, a desperate (Gypsy) young girl, making her living by hand-searching the gutters for fallen pennies by the multitude of shoppers, became a victim of a furious verbal aggression and humiliation from the stall vendors (Bulgarians). As she didn’t know where to hide in the midst of this they shouted with great venom and incited the young Roma-kids that are usually playing around the street: “Go and beat her! Hit her!” It transpired the reason for the vendors’ agitation is that as she fiddles with the gutter lids, they would tend to clog up when it rains and their stalls would be flooded.

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• Anynomous

  17 June 2023

  Today’s late breakfast: one of the kebabtches from the Women’s with kiopoolu (aubergine sauce) for just 1.15 lv [0.60eur]. You should inquire among the contraband cigarette vendors and the permanent loiters at the street – they know best, of course, which bbq is the most delicious. They’d tell you: “Get the kebabtche from this one, but take it to the neighbour for the sauce!”

  And you should know that the yoghurt has a taste like the one from once upon a time! The one we had in glass jars! It costed just 60 st.[0.30eur]! I ask the shopkeeper, “Why are these so cheap? Has it got dry milk in it?” “We set smaller margin, so it is accessible for the poor people.”