Bulgarians love designated celebratory ‘days’ and they punctuate the year wonderfully. There’s Baba Marta, Flowers Day, Wine Day – there are even phrases for ‘happy first snow day’ and ‘happy new haircut day’. Most Christian names have a specific day and, as with birthdays, you give chocolates to your friends and colleagues when it’s yours. Some have additional foods or gifts associated with them such as carp on St Nikola’s day as he’s the patron saint of fishermen, or St George’s day – which is on a different date here - when you eat lamb because he’s the patron saint of shepherds.
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