sashbar
Been spending a lot of time on here!
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2012
- Messages
- 3,044
- Reaction score
- 1,183
- Location
- Behind the Irony Curtain
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
There is an unusual tradition in provincial Bulgarian towns and villages that I visited last summer. I apologise to those of you who will find it cynical or disrespectful to the tradition.
But people there do remember their dead like nowhere else in Europe as far as I have seen.
(These photos are not for C&C, but putting it in Just For Fun would be a bit too rich, even for my blood.)
Whenever somebody dies in a house everybody is informed about it by a poster and sometimes by some additional decorations:

There are also signs announcing the anniversary of a death. When the sign is accompanied by the "Room For Rent" ad, it looks even more poignant.

Some leaflets are more artsy, and you can see a portrait. The dog surely misses this guy:

Some leaflets remind us of the mortal dangers of electricity:

You can find these remembering leaflets everywhere - on a tree:

The poster in the middle announces the 21st (!) anniversary of the death.
I guess they have been doing it every year for 21 years.
You can find it behind a bench in a park:

I can imagine how it feels to sit here late at night with so many dead behind your back..
You can find it behind a church fence, granted:

there are so many on every corner, one can be forgiven for thinking there was a plague:

.. and sometimes they come completely unexpected:

But people there do remember their dead like nowhere else in Europe as far as I have seen.
(These photos are not for C&C, but putting it in Just For Fun would be a bit too rich, even for my blood.)
Whenever somebody dies in a house everybody is informed about it by a poster and sometimes by some additional decorations:

There are also signs announcing the anniversary of a death. When the sign is accompanied by the "Room For Rent" ad, it looks even more poignant.

Some leaflets are more artsy, and you can see a portrait. The dog surely misses this guy:

Some leaflets remind us of the mortal dangers of electricity:

You can find these remembering leaflets everywhere - on a tree:

The poster in the middle announces the 21st (!) anniversary of the death.
I guess they have been doing it every year for 21 years.
You can find it behind a bench in a park:

I can imagine how it feels to sit here late at night with so many dead behind your back..
You can find it behind a church fence, granted:

there are so many on every corner, one can be forgiven for thinking there was a plague:

.. and sometimes they come completely unexpected:

Last edited: