A new museum of socialist art is among the top tourist attractions in Sofia this autumn. The National Art Gallery is an established Bulgarian institution. Indeed, it occupies very grand premises in the former royal palace in the centre of Sofia. But in late September the gallery opened an annexe devoted to art of the period when Bulgaria was under communist rule: 1944 to 1989.
Thomas Cook: March 1873
By the end of February 1873, Thomas Cook had encircled most of the northern hemisphere. Cook and his party of circumnavigators had sailed from Liverpool in September 1872. The travellers discovered iced water, Pullman cars and Sioux warriors in the ...