Passport Hostel Sofia

... oops we forgot to tell you the airport is stupidly expensive...cheers dad!

car ride was looong but its quite a nice journey scenerys lovely. you go out of sofia and through the mountains then its through farmers fields and small villages dotted about. notlooking forward to the bus trip back though, the parents don't fancy a 10 hour round trip to take us back to the airport too, damn!!

... renovated. The guy was pretty cool that ran it too. I took a nap right away but this guy (name?) drove Brian around town for a couple hours. They went and bought soccer tickets and picked up dry cleaning and Brian got a little tour of the town.
Sofia is great in its own way. Very small city and you can still really see the remnants of Communism and Russian influence. Basic city with few things to do. They do have good food and cheap restaurants. Some people were friendly ...

... On one wall every 2 ½ feet there is three beds that pull down and lock in place for sleeping. They are about 5 feet long, and two feet wide. Considering we all had enough luggage to last a week, five of us were looking at a trip that was approaching new levels of ridiculousness. The first couple of hours went by reasonably well, but soon the fact that we had 16 hours in this little room started to weigh on us. The novelty of the situation wore off, and peter and I went ...

... We walked back to the Museum, passing by rows of market stalls selling all kinds of antique medals, knives, coins etc as well as standard souvenirs. Went into the Archaeological Museum after watching the changing of the palace guard which was happening as we arrived.Here because we were "seniors" we saved $10 each by being given free admission. Being old does have some advantages!!!! This museum was fantastic. Bulgaria has a long history starting with Thracian tribes and continuing ...

... Biketourproject, but I won't bother you with this.. Now I seem to have a live here.. I'm living now in a huge house in thecentre. It's really beautifull, central and even quiet. What a luck! From there I cycle 15-20 minutes to the office. Where I spend my time from monday to friday.. haahahha Me in an office.. It's a wierd experience. I already miss the fresh air, the sun, the wind.. and the mountian views!!! (of ...

... soo hard to know! By the third shake you feel dumb and realize they have been saying yes all along. It's not good to generalize about body types, but even in croatia we noticed two kinds of guys, the thick medium sized (usually with no shirt) and the tall and lanky. Here in Bulgaria it is the wrestler body, they are everywhere, no wonder they win in the olympics all the time. Am I being too mean? REally, everyone was good to us (except I am irritated with the ...

... I couldn't help but find the relevance. Okay. So then later in the drive we heard "Survivor" by Beyonce, which goes without saying, after that, I was pretty much on top of the world: "I'm a survivor *what* I'm gonna make it *what* I'm not gonna give up *what* keep on survivin' *what*"  (I'm sure I just slaughtered those lyrics. But you get the point.) Radio is not much different anywhere you go I guess.  Now I'm doing my best not to let SNAP get ...

Well on my last day in Nis i was able to visit the old roman palace. It wasnt much to be honest, but at least i got the chance to visit. Then i had to take the train from Nis to Sofia. The two places are about 170km apart, and the trip was scheduled to take 4 hours. Instead it took about 8, with 4 of those hours being split evenly on the Serbian side of the border and the Bulgarian side. Seems the big racket in these parts is smuggling cigarettes ...

... and now I'm in possession of a banging headache. Our chewing gum food ration hasn't lasted as long as we would have hoped. However, not all is bleak, as we have just been witness to one of the most entertaining spectacles of the journey thus far - the Serbian Smuggling Ring. Everyone in our train car seems to know each other, and they all seem to be smuggling cigarettes and alcohol over the Bulgarian border. We had a compartment to ourselves for the first few hours, but ...

... Und wo sei meine Registration? Nach 5 Minuten Diskussion kam die entscheidende Frage - nie hatte ich sowas direktes erlebt: Haben Sie 5 Euro? Es folgten etwa 5 Stunden warten, bis auch die rumaenischen Grenzer alle gluecklich waren. Mein Fahrer hatte an der Grenze eine Stange Marlboro verteilt, ueber die Stationen hinweg. Als ich per Taxi bis in die Innenstadt gefahren war (nach 2 Anrufen, und fuer 5 Euro), durfte ich noch miterleben, was echte rumaenische ...