Dimitrova Apartments Sofia

... hmm that can of coke cost us 2 pound 50 (I though Bulgaria was supposed to be cheap!!) and she couldn't give us some coins. got change in the exchange office then as we went to the pay phone I saw my dad outside. Didn't even need the damn change! hugs kisses hellos then in the car to start the 5 HOUR car journey to Srebarna...argh! On the told the father about the most expensive can of coke in the ...

After a a very long train trip we finally arrived in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. After getting our bearings in the train station we headed to our hotel in the heart of the business district - a great choice. On arriving the porter came to the taxi to collect our luggage only to discover we were BACKPACKERS!!!!! What a hoot.

Our knees began to knock as we walked into this small, but perfectly formed hotel carrying our backpacks and smelling ...

... people. It is phenomenally ugly. Many of the communist hagoveers - the unpushy restaurants, the thriving market - are really charming and I am so glad that I have seen them, because they will go as Sofia westernises. At the same time, the weedy, scrubby squares will, I hope be tidied, the grafitti cleaned and the pavements repaired. A piece of the past is fun to visit, but you shouldn't have to live there.

... here's what we'll do" Dave chimed in. "I've heard of a great little English pub near here. There'll be a lot of great Bulgarian girls there. Wanna come Tom?" I considered this for a moment. I always seem to get on fine with American women, even when they're drunk, American men are a different matter- after a few beers they tend to become sex crazed idiots who are exceptionally proud of their drinking "prowess" (they become English basically, except they drink less ...

I left you yesterday towards the end of my day in Belgrade. Well it was near the end of the day but the rest of the day was rather eventful! I had a wander down the road the Canadian/Serbian girl said to see and there are indeed bombed out buildings that have not been rebuilt. I wanted to take photos but again like the slum thought it was poor taste to do so. So although I still had 3 hours until my train and absolutely zero desire, in fact minus desire, to go back ...

... fields we had great days, we came back and we were covered head to toe in mud. today i arrived in sophia bulgaria, i think i will be in bulgaria for the next week or so then i will be off to turkey and georgia. I am putting off the africa adventures until mid april, so that gives me a just over a month to work my way down into egypt. anyways i am getting hungry and am off to endulge in some bulgarian cuisine.

... ordered food in a self-servıce restaurant. He wanted to speak englısh wıth me. Fortunately, Valentine was genuine and we chatted over a beer. Alex arrived and we went to his place. We chatted and drank red wine and a home made rakia made wıth grapes. It was sweeter than those I had tried ın Serbia but not as strong at just under 40%. We tested the home-made rakia I'd been given in Serbia and found ıt was nearly 50%. I had a look around the cıty the ...

I went up to Sofia on Friday for an ATIP meeting at the peace corps office. it was ok, we talked about how the conference went in sliven and how the girls who basically run ATIP were really frusterated but that the relationship with IOM is really good still. also the first regional conference, which happened before i got here, went really well. also we talked about upcoming jobs, mostly to finish the ATIP kits which are a bunch of resources all in digital format for all the pcvs ...

The seven-hour train trip to Sofia, Bulgaria was quite nice. The train traveled through farmland and then an alpine gorge, with a nice river an alpine-esque towns. The train, of course, was an old Eastern Bloc special. The seats weren't bad, but the toilet went straight down onto the tracks - you could see the railroad ties going by. It reminded me why not to walk in the middle of railroad tracks. I arrived on a Friday afternoon, and I was concerned ...

... Sofia to Belgrade, this meant yet another bus ride. With only one day in the capital to have a look around we did a few tourist things such as visited Aleksander Nevki church, caught the changing of the President's guards (serious but the guards kept laughing throughout), Sveta Nedelya Cathedral and the tomb of the unknown soldier. We also hung out in the park where a large number of men congregate to play chess. They gamble and take the whole ...