Bulgaria Travel Blogs

... The cops come to our compartment, ask the two old dears who had been crossing themselves for the last ten minutes where they're from... "Bulgaria" they say in unison. "OK", the guy says.... Then to me. "British", say I. "WHAT?" "Er, English?" "OK" ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by foolsgold
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"You are so fucking money and you don't even know it. You're like a bear with these big fucking claws and the ladies are like bunny rabbits, and you're looking at your claws and you're thinking, how can I kill this bunny with these claws?" Swingers Our ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by foolsgold
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Took a cushy bus to Sofia today...walked through the construction site in the hotel lobby to our triple room, battling dust and other musty smells, had lunch at Micky d's...saw 3 historical churches including one from Roman times, the ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by tracystravels
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... of the things we saw were the Aleksnader Nevski Church which was a huge memorial for the soldiers that died fighting for Bulgaria's freedom in 1877-1878. It was very impressive and absolutely massive. Some lovely churches were the Church of St Sofia, St ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by lucinate
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... in Southern Oregon. Of course the occasional horse-drawn cart trotting down the shoulder of the highway would punctuate that Bulgaria isn't Oregon. Unfortunately for Katie, she missed a few of the beautiful views since she was entranced watching "Pretty ...

A travel blog entry from Veliko Tarnovo by globedecker
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A travel blog entry from Veliko Tarnono by lraleigh
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A travel blog entry from Varna by lraleigh
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... Said: So after an interesting (and surprisingly relaxing) fourteen hour train ride we arrived today in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. Having a private sleeping car makes riding the rails quite pleasant! It was sort of a strange coincidence that the ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by globedecker
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According to historians, Plovdiv is one of the oldes towns in Europe...even older than Rome, Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul).  Tomorrow will see most of the sites before jumping onto an overnight train to Istanbul....including another Roman ...

A travel blog entry from Plovdiv by tracystravels
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... on a fairly new train from Bucharest to Veliko Turnovo, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnovo) the former capital of Bulgaria, was uneventful save a few delays at the border stops. Staying in a few pensions hugging the rocks of the hillside of ...

A travel blog entry from Veliko Turnovo by tracystravels
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A travel blog entry from Sofia by sojanet
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3 weeks of catching up over coffees and beers. A lot of coffees and a lot of beers. That was all.

A travel blog entry from Sofia by orizarska
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... ; When it hit 9am and we were not in Plodiv, we got worried.  Plodiv is the second largest city in Bulgaria; yet, endless grassy plains stretched out the train window.  Natasha got really paranoid and kept going to the conductor's room without a ...

A travel blog entry from Plovdiv by sojanet
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... . They`d both been to Oz so had no trouble understanding our sense of humour and slang! The train crossed over into Bulgaria and stopped at a place called Ruse. The weather did the turn around and pissed down. The romanians with all the bags started ...

A travel blog entry from Shumen by lucinate
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Veliko Tarnovo When we finally arrived in Veliko centre, Simon was marked by an old lady who had numerous rooms in a block of flats on the hill and a really annoyingly squeaky voice. The view was great, but I've seen better bathrooms! We were all ...

A travel blog entry from Veliko Tarnovo by lucinate
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My beautifull cousin Anna tied the knot with Boris in a folk ceremony in Varna, the summer  capital of Bulgaria. It was a propper wedding! I was the made of honor and as such (without prior notice) was asked to participate in the enterntainment ...

A travel blog entry from Varna by orizarska
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Phin and I wake up leisurely and head over to pick up Debra and Kim at their hotel.  After realizing why they woke up covered in glitter, we all head down to the harbor to catch a ferry to the neighboring island of Heybeliada.  A brief, yet ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by madman96
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... eventually led us to the monastery!  Because today was Sunday (or because this is such a big destination), half of Bulgaria's population was visiting the monastery.  The frescoes were from 19th C and were indeed impressive.  I was admiring ...

A travel blog entry from Blagoevgrad by sojanet
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... sate my religious fervour however so off I went to the neighbouring town of Arbanassi, to what Lonely Planet calls 'one of Bulgaria's most interesting churches'. Set like a barn on a gentle slope of grass and spring flowers, it has a deliberately low ...

A travel blog entry from Valiko Tarnovo by technotrekker
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... Go Europe 2003" (not ideal, but useful for places that won't warrant individual guidebook purchases), and bought a bus ticket to Sofia, Bulgaria for the next morning. The bus trip yesterday was long (9 hours) and dull, and it was broken up only by an ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by easyread
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... the Med to my final destination - the UK. Outside it's pouring rain and I'm back in a land of Cyrillics again - this time Bulgaria - already a world away from the aridity of the Middle East. I must admit that it has been good to get out of Turkey - ...

A travel blog entry from Plovdiv by technotrekker
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... sad to think about all the people who had been killed in 1989. After nearly 2 weeks in Romania we crossed the border into Bulgaria and had an interesting 5 days in Veliko Tarnovo, the old capital. Vinnie, Paul and I stayed in a great little hostel run by ...

A travel blog entry from Varna by worldofbintang
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... , alcohol unimaginably cheap.  It is Saturday night and Sofia supposedly has good night life, but we should get some beauty sleep for tomorrow's trip.  We are visiting the best sightseeing place in Bulgaria: Rila Monastery. 

A travel blog entry from Sofia by sojanet
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... interesting and not sugar coated which should appeal to many. Catch you next time. TT Great Brands of the World - Bulgaria With a pretty simple message plastered all over the country it's not so surprising that I am now very inclined randomly ...

A travel blog entry from Rila mountains by technotrekker
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Bulgaria was sadly the country we stayed in the shortest but happened to be the cheapest - £3.50 for 3 beers, 3 hot chocolates and 3 soft drinks. Though, despite of the cheap prices, it was in much better shape than Romania. Before our night spent near the ...

A travel blog entry from Veliko Tarnovo by martyt
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Sofia at art hostel, jess wenstrom, rila, meeting with nikolay minkov uconomics, abandoned factories and hand labor in fields from train, harvesting hay. Sofia trams. Playing music, walking around the churches and streets, belowground stores, Hostel ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by lraleigh
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... great English, Tanzanians and Kenyans likewise. Things dropped off as we went up through the Middle East and dropped another level in Bulgaria. And we know that very few people over the age of 25 speak any English at all in Slovakia. Having said that, ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by jambo
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... .  Some of my tourmates went to the Dancing Bear Sanctuary outside of town where many of the Dancing Bears in Bulgaria live after they were rescued from their former lives of bondage and torture.  Apparently, their paws are greased and they ...

A travel blog entry from Bansko by tracystravels
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... leaving before whenever arrived.  Anyway, Transylvania was awesome, not to be missed in Romania. Our train to Sofia in Bulgaria was physically uncomfortable, but quite fun.  We couldn't get a sleeper cabin, so sat in a compartment with three ...

A travel blog entry from Sofia by canaussie
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A travel blog entry from Sofia by byrnedm
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