Sirene cheese, yoghurt and kashkaval: five days in Sofia and Plovdiv, Bulgaria

"Bulgaria? I've never heard of anyone going there." Everyone I talked to said the same, from family to work colleagues to the credit card operator at my bank who was updating my travel records.

What's there? Cheese and lots of yoghurt as I would find out over my five day visit, part of an international delegation sponsored by EU Dairy Daily (funded by the European Union and the Republic of