Tea and eat.

It is terribly cold in Sofia these days. So much snow and low temperatures that ski fans cannot think of work at all because of snow, while the others just do not want to even think about going to work.

In such cold weather the only proper thing to do is just sit down somewhere warm and have a cup of tea (or other hot drink).
This is what I thought I've found one morning when passed by a small nice cafe and tea place and decided to jump in.
'Tea' is a part of a pastry-cafeteria-and-stores chain which I like because of their light cakes with modern taste and handsome waiters (only men, no women);-)

This forth site of their has:

a kind lady behind the bar,

no male waiters :-(

a great old-fashioned coffee machine

great horse-headed piles on the pavement in front

coffee and tea selection of the brand Richard

Italian food and wine and other bottles...

and last but not least - the tiny rounded paper for your chewing gum served together with your coffee.
It won my heart :-) Can you see it on the picture above?
Their ceiling was a strong competition to it though.

But it's too cold in the winter mornings there so I'll wait till April before visiting the kind lady again.

Bio coffee - no, bio sweets - yes, yes, yes!

Finally, I had the chance to taste a real bio coffee, produced according all the requirements for coffee to be licensed as bio (or at least, I guess it is according to them as it was prepared in a specialized bio shop). It was a pleasant experience to taste the coffee as there was a corner for drinks outdoors at the event I was attending, the weather in Sofia was beautiful that day and all the people were in good mood although they were trapped to spend the wonderful Saturday indoors staring at the stage or at the screen of their smartphones twitting questions to the speakers....

The coffee wasn't quite good, I should say, although with loads of milk added... It tasted as if prepared from sugar beet or something :-( Traditional (non-bio???) coffee won the match!

And don't ask me what the little thing beside the cup is - it was made of paper, very nicely designed, a small stone and a garlic inside - to keep us safe from the wind and the flu, probably ;-)
But the amazing thing were the sweets we were given to serve ourselves with....Wow! A woman owning a guest-house in a village somewhere in the Rila mountain has prepared them for us - the unknown guests of the event she was a speaker at. Thank you, Deshka!

Those were tasty amazing things - four types, but I liked most two of them: one made of pumpkin (the yellow ones at your left), and the other which looked as small meatballs steeped in sugar syrup which dripped all around (the brown ones at the right) and everybody's fingers were sticky with it, hankies were the most wanted good around... But it was funny, and nice, and - most importantly! - tasty in the old-fashioned home-made way :-)