Monument to the Unknown Warrior Sofia

Monday, September 10 - Thursday, September 13

Sofia

My worst inter-city commute to date was from Montenegro to Sofia. It was an overnight 14 hour bus ride from Herceg Novi to Nis, Serbia (I already mentioned the driving through the wild fires in Montenegro), and then being stuck in Nis, Serbia (arrival at 7 am) for the next 9 …

... on to the third part of my redundancy travels and off to Eastern Europe and the Balkans for 4 weeks, beginning in Sofia, Bulgaria and travelling through Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia before ending up in ...

Hello, from Sofia, Bulgaria! First of all, that's a very cool name for a city.  "I live in Sofia."  How cool is that?  These have been relaxing days, since Sofia doesn’t have much in the things-to-do column, but it is an interesting ...

... city for tourist attractions so to say and the main area can be done in less than couple of  hours. One very interesting monument we saw was called Church of St. George which was a red brick rotunda, considered to the oldest building in Sofia. It's ...

... goodness - no more navigating! (I would say driving but that was Bevan's dubious honor). So what else can I say about the capital of Bulgaria, a country that is famous for 4 things: 1. The head nod for no, head shake for yes (no, we haven't mastered it) ...

... house which is fed by natural springs, we were also fascinated by the St Georgi rotunda church which is the oldest architectural monument in Sofia and dates from the 4th century AD during the late Roman Empire. In front of it are the remains of the ...

... a very interesting park with several neatly arranged communist statues. I think I should explain a bit of history first though. Bulgaria first aligned with Hitler in WWII, but then famously refused to sacrifice its Jews to concentration camps. As ...

... find the lift or it was closed... so we went to the "Asembly of peace" which is this bombastic communistic monument built by Bulgaria's legendary minister of culture and it was these huge pillars with bells around which there was a spiraling park which ...

... une vignette 5 euros, 4 contrôles, 3 euros pour je ne sais pas trop quoi... Et voilà ! Welcome in Bulgaria ! Dobar den ! J'essaie directement de me familiariser avec les formules d'usage, mais ma tête s'embrouille !!! Après ...

... which is interesting city ,and I have to say it looks quite better and cleaner than 2 years ago . Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria,and also it's biggest city with approx. 1,4 mill habitants. It's situated in western ...

... Sofia it starts to sink in what a big leg of the journey this is: 24 hours, 4 countries (Austria/Hungary/Serbia/Bulgaria), 2 passport stamps, and endless train configeration changes until it was just our sleeper carriage and 2 'commuter' waggons.  ...