Vidin, Bulgaria Travel Blogs

Rock churches
May 14, 2008 (9 photos)

Rest day. Rented a car from the hotel for £15 and went for a drive with a girl called Mandy who is also staying at the guesthouse. Saw a great medieval village and some churches cut into the rock in the local national park. Had the biggest gin and ...

On a High: Svistov to Ruse
May 13, 2008 (9 photos)

102km Best: rolling hills and empty roads Worst: Snakes crossing the road And the riding just gets better..... I will let the photos do the talking, but just leaving Svishtov I passed a massive Roman site at Nove. Needless to say had the place to ...

BULGARIA CYCLING PHOTOS
Apr 21, 2007 (77 photos)

... kosovo, and stuck to the deeper mountain ranges on the fringes. the border crossing from serbia to bulgaria (in vrska cuka, near the bulgarian town of vidin) was quite a climb. actually, the enire way through the serbian mountains passing into bulgaria ...

Trundling Along, Negotin to Lom
May 10, 2008 (4 photos)

Negotin to Lom Distance 115km Best bit: leaving the fleapit of Negotin Worst bit: nothing really Just a brief entry for today - weather lovely, kms skipping by.

Pointless conversations
May 7, 2008 (3 photos)

Belgrade to Golubnac Distance: 145km Best bit: Sunset on Danube Worst bit: fear Animals: huge mushroom It is hard to describe how it felt driving out in the Belgrade early morning traffic. If you have seen the movie, Speed, a bit like being ...

The Friendliest Tourist Information Office ever
May 8, 2008 (6 photos)

Golubnec to Donji Milanovac Distance 50km Best bit: Castles for breakfast Worst bit: running over a lizard This was a fun town to be in. The lady at the tourist information was fantastic in finding me somewhere to stay, with a lady called Angelika ...

wet feet
May 11, 2008 (1 photos)

Lom to Zagrazhden 145km Best: Finding somewhere to sleep Worst: Having to ride past some ruins without stopping The best bit of today was the end. In the scabbiest place on the Danube, and when my legs had absolutely given up the ghost, there ...

Happy Again
May 12, 2008 (5 photos)

Zagrazhden to Shivstov 105km Best bit: sunrise Worst: none No one was about at 7am this morning so I found a couple of eggs in the hotel fridge, toasted some stale bread, and scoffed the lot before the kitchen lady woke up and told me off. I was glad ...

Visiting the Romans
May 9, 2008 (5 photos)

Donji Milanovac to Negotin Distance 125km Best bits: More danube gorges (Iron Gates) Worst bits: Not getting through a telephone job interview! There is no money in the Serbian economy to properly protect/display most of the archaeology. This worked ...

Bye bye Serbia, Hello Bulgaria
May 25, 2009 (5 photos)

Late last night I picked up an email from the danish girls suggesting a new rendevous and date. And it sounded feasible if i got a move on. So looking at the map I saw a road which seemed to head directly for the Bulgarian border rather than all the way ...

still following the Danube
Oct 23, 2006 (4 photos)

just pics of crossing the border...

Peace Corps Volunteer
May 25, 2009 (3 photos)

... next to Billy the Bum. There is an International Valley of the Roses Festival this weekend so I have to stay for that.  I was planning on staying in Bulgaria for two nights and it looks like Ill stay over a week (Who am I kidding, I dont plan).