Hostel Sofia
16 Pozitano Street Sofia, 1000, Bulgaria
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Train station blues in bulgaria
Paul the Bulgarian cabbie had me cornered tonight, while waiting at the Sofia train station for a promised complimentary ride that never came. He resembled a Slavic DeNiro and stood there chuckling aloud to himself as I wearily pumped multiple stotinka into the BulFone. I soon gave into his ice cold glare and reluctantly hopped in the taxi. In a …
Chapter 6: Vampires and Gypsies
This entry is going to be for both Bulgaria and Romania as I zigzagged through them. Hopefully I won't get tired of writing by the end 'cuz there are at least a couple good stories (these updates take a LONG time so sometimes by the end I just summarize quick to get it over and done with). Bulgaria is just north of Turkey and has the Black Sea to …
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The responses change but the problems remain...
Today the team visited the house of “Hope for the Little Ones” in south west Sofia. Here up to six abandoned babies are cared for by staff and volunteers dedicated to finding a way to keep these children out of the state care system. Dani, the manager, showed us around and introduced to the volunteers and babies and explained to us that the project has two parts. The first is to take care ...
Porkchops
I don't eat pork. I haven't since the seventh grade, with very few accidental exceptions. Although I don't keep kosher as a rule, I do abstain from eating pork or shellfish and vaguely explain my decision away as something I do "for religious reasons." Although I'd mentioned this the day before, after coming back from the hike, Militza's mom greeted us with a dinner she had prepared for us. Salad, bread, and as a main course (I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with ...
All fine in the end
... to give them their presents, attempting to wish them Happy Christmas in Bulgarian too... their excitement was plain to see, and the teachers told us that the kids had been bouncing up and down all morning in anticipation of our visit.
After a quick cup of tea with the headmistress, we went across to the kindergarten. A group of very well behaved little children treated us to a rendition of a Bulgarian nursery rhyme about a little rabbit. ...



