Be My Guest Hostel Sofia

... 8230;.decadent street markets where you can find nostalgic souvenirs of forgotten times…..i.e. russian icons of a communist enclave.
As the first stop of the trip, we couldn't ask for more…..but, anyways, just an opinion….and yes, still cheap. Marina

... everywhere. We found ourselves a nook standing by the stairs and got stuck into some Bulgarian chanting to endear ourselves with our neighbours. The game was a good one, well balanced with plenty of attacking and a few flares in the crowd to add excitement, but ultimately Berbatov and co. couldn't make their chances count and the game finished 1-1, all but ensuring Bulgaria will not be in South Africa next year (Caleb played 90 minutes).


The ...

Sofia was nice but it was so cold. I was happy to leave Belgrade after spending a month there, good to get moving again. The train had no electricity nor heating so the journey was pretty bad. Couch surfed with Mira and Bobo (the giant dog) which was cool ...

... even meaner when they figure you are a stranger,and worse if you don`t speak Bulgarian. People don`t say hello or goodbye when they enter a shop,it is awkward when you do actually.They get unnecessarily nervous when you bump into them in the crowd and say `Sorry`.I had a few shop keepers yelling at me when i was buying stuff, i was cursed at the tram because i had a luggage with me and it was in front of a seat.It wasn`t too bad to be able to curse back though ...

... the platform waiting for the train and ready to head off to Romania. Just to make sure I was at the right platform I checked with a conductor "Bucharest". "Bucharest, finished" he said. As he was saying that I noticed the clock on the platform saying 20:05, my train was at 19:30, but my watch said 19:05. "Oh no, F------------------k!" I've been in Bulgaria for a day and a half unaware they are an hour ahead. The first major glitch of the trip! I ...

... picked us up around 10:30 this morning to take us on our tour of downtown Sophia. We said our good-byes to Paul and Erin and promised to clean the place up after we trash it out with wild parties (just kidding - we're not cleaning anything!). They headed for the airport a couple of hours later and should be back in the states (or at least over it in the air somewhere) by now. Scott was a great tour guide for the day, and his first agenda item was to teach us how ...

... was in-between apartments. Two English lads were right out of high school to see the world. A English lady was planning to invest in Bulgarian Real Estate (it's excellent value). A Finnish travel guide was in-between leading trips. An American journalist waited for a pay cheque and was writing a dime novel while waiting. Two Californian law students were waiting on bar exam test results. Two math professors had taken a quarter off (separately). Two computer ...

... way, but she wanted to go way up the hill. We kept going up and up until reaching Cota 1400, the spot where the first cable-car stops. Phew! We had a beer up there and saw the sun start to set. Started on our way down the hill when people in front of us came racing back saying they were attacked by wolves (it was actually just wild dogs). That was reason enough for us to turn around to the hotel at Cota 1400 and call for a taxi. While waiting for the taxi, we saw some ...

... year old kid riding 40 miles an hour down a potholed dirty road in Bulgaria and look up on the hill towards the gypsies' houses to see them surrounded by trash and huge fires probably burning the trash to keep warm. what a weird place! worse than L.A. bulgaria is the only place I have ever been where the smog is worse than L.A.. it's disgusting. but the food's good! chalga any bulgarian who has any self-respect hates chalga music because it's what the white ...

... and not sure what to do and then he asked Chrissy to move briefly (we were taking up the whole back seat as we wanted to stretch out), then he started rifling behind the seat, at this point I was very curious what he had hidden back there but luckily it was only cigarettes. You could say that we were pretty knackered from the trip as we had been on the go since yesterday morning - one bus ride after another and we were feeling really disgustingly dirty ...