Monument to the Unknown Warrior Sofia

Sofia , Bulgaria
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  • 1

    Travels Part III

    5 photos

    ... 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 ...

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    Communisim and Nostalgia

    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 ...

  • 3

    Sofia - as in Saint or stress?

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    ... 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) ...

  • 4

    Follow the Yellow Brick Road

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    ... 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 ...

  • 5

    Our last day spent in Sofia

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    ... 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 ...

  • 6

    IFSS BULGARIA 2008-Sofia

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    ... 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 ...

  • 7

    The inbetweener

    ... 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.  ...

  • 8

    BULGARIA

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    Hi everybody! just come back from a 17 days travel in Bulgaria, run 2100 km by car from Sofia to Monastery Rila, Bansko, Velingrad, Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, Varna, Balchick, Golden Sands, Nessebar, Primorsko, Burgas, Sozopol, Ahtopol, Senimorets, Rezovo, ...

  • 9

    Koprivschtschicha - Pirin III

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    ... money to the Ottomans in order not to be destroyed. This makes it almost the only village/city in Bulgaria that still remains intact. And as they made a monument out of it, it still looks intact and beautiful. Here the last money-related event happened: ...

  • 10

    Sofia, Bulgaria - Surprisingly Good!

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    ... Kamenitza alone had cost a paltry 48p! The cheapest pint in my whole life. Cakes were also cheap in Sofia. Our guidebook recommended a place called The Bulgaria, described as being a very swish, posh café selling cakes and truffles to tempt the palate. ...