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Haskovo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Haskovo, Bulgaria
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Turkish Reflections
This is a top pick! ... of Turkey. There's a big Y on the banknotes and for some reason I started calling them Yentils. On the way to Sofia Bulgaria, I asked Ellen to read a few of my notes. When I finished she asked "Aren't you going to write something nice about ...
Bulgaria the only country where no means Yes!!
Well we got to Bulgaria also supposed to be dangerous to hitch through, but have found from the people that we are staying with that it is easy to hitch people are nice and don't ask for favors and it's so easy to hitch here you don't ...
Haskovo
... breakfast. Met the family, exchanged details. Drove me to Otogar, and bought me some food. His friend was a bus driver who drove to Bulgaria but only to Haskova. Went on the bus and got off after the border. Trying to hitchhike, but no lifts for a couple ...
Bulgaria. EEC, but almost not there.
After we've enjoyed Serbia, especially small mountain routes, we'got to Bulgaria. The difference to the other EEC countries is really visible, especially when you want to find anything. GPS simply doesn't work there, just showing rubbish, road signs ...
Long lines and confused roosters
... waiting to get through customs. Fortunately the cars and campervans always have a separate line. The weather improved in Bulgaria, and though still rather grey it was at least dry. Which allowed the boys to play a lot of football at the ...
Episode 34
Episode 34 We set out in a general northerly direction that would take us to Erzurum and then to the eastern end of the Black Sea coast not far from the Georgian border. The first route we set out on took us over the mountains but came to a stop when we ...
This Place is 'Ohrid'!!
... get there at were both planning on riding about 900km, I had decided to take the more adventurous (and stupid) route over the Bulgaria mountains in winter which was going to be interesting. Taco on the other hand decided he wanted (very sensibly) avoid ...
Bulgarian Sleeper
Ok, so I never actually set foot in Bulgaria but the train went through it and I got the stamp in my passport, so it's going in the blog! When I booked my world ticket I got a flight into Istanbul, and out of the Prague 5 weeks later. Other than that I ...
Mysterious Thracian city
Alexander the Great? The Oracle? The Perperikon website is here. This is a very cool think to climb around and check out, imagining all that happened here so long ago. It was only recently rediscovered and excavated from beneath the vegetation. It was ...
Bulgaria
... have yet to be sold for drugs money. There isn't a lot to see here and the tourist trade is low. Journey into Bulgaria involved 7 checkpoints but thankfully took less than half an hour and we had absolutely no trouble entering the country. Sadly, half an ...
пуйка Day
My original plans for "пуйка day"..a.k.a. turkey day, were to meet up with some fellow Fulbrighters, make a nice dinner (as close to a Thanksgiving dinner as we could accomplish), enjoy some drinks, and have a nice weekend. ...
Bulgaria!
Arriving in Bulgaria was less than amazing because Jared was still sick. The first day we were in Dimitrovgrad I wanted him to try shopska salad, kebapche, Bulgarian beer, and everything else. We went out to eat, but Jared could ...
Nigth at the Border
At border there is a long waitingtime for the trucks to pass on. Its about 4 hrs. So I couldnt drive to Instanbul in one day/ In the evening we took turkish supper, outside at the border beside the trunk, which serves as storage for food, dinnerware ...
10km yeah right
Ok, so getting to the border didn't quite go to plan, it turned out that although close to the border we were 40km from the nearest crossing. This was only discovered after cycling into a back of beyond village where, leaving Helen with the bikes, I was ...
Home Sweet Home!
... village was beautiful and her family was so nice to me! We took a walk around the village and I could definitely see how Bulgaria is still considered a developing country. It was beautiful but still fairly run-down. We had dinner in the village and they ...
Plovdiv - Harmanli
25.05.2011 36. Etappe Start: Plovdiv Hostel Mostel Startzeit: 8:15 Uhr km: 109 Gesamt km: 2850 Ziel: Harmanli Wild Campen auf Bauerhof Es geht erst mal flach voran. Aber dann geht es geschmeidig durch eine heftige Hügellandschaft mit sinnlosen ...
The баба Chronicles
баба in Bulgarian means grandmother. There are numerous babas all throughout Bulgaria. For some reason, I get along with the babas very well. One day I was running to the track and I saw an old woman, hanging on to a tree branch, ...
Halloween-Bulgarian Style
... holidays. I think it's just because I really like candy and fall. Anyway, I had been asking the kids what Halloween was like in Bulgaria. They told me it's not even half as big as it is in the US and they can't go trick or treating..mostly because the ...
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