?It was better then,? she said when I visited her in her small village, Ravna Gora, about 20 miles outside Burgas. ?Salaries were not high, but neither were prices. Now prices are high, but salaries are still low.? ... Vesselin Galov, the 25-year-old revenue manager of the Sheraton hotel in Sofia, said he started working at the hotel at 19 and kept improving himself by taking various professional classes and learning English and Spanish. ...