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Sofıa to Istanbul vıa plovdıv
We got ınto Plovdıv around fıve pm. What was supposed to be an easy hotel to fınd ended up beıng a several hour wıld goose chase but we dıd fınd ıt ın the end. Dıdn't do to much there other than have dınner and see a few thıngs ın the mornıng. It looked lıke a charmıng place and ı would recommend spendıng a couple of days there.
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La vallée des roses
... parfumeries française) où les procédés d'extraction d'essence de rose sont expliquées, des anciens alambics aux méthodes plus modernes. Cette visite nous a suffit pour comprendre qu'une quantité impressionnante de roses est nécessaire pour fabriquer un seul litre d'huile de rose. Heureusement que quelques goûtes suffisent pour créer parfums, crèmes et autres produits car le litre est tout simplement hors de ...
Plovdiv
Lazy last day in Bulgaria. Did a bit of shopping, visited a revivalist house, sat and had beer for 2 hours while doing the quiz, and met for our final group dinner of the trip.. Can't believe how fast it's gone. Now an overnight bus trip to Istanbul - quite a nice bus, we have a stewardess, a TV and a USB to charge my iPhone - sort of like being on a plane except much ...
Plovdiv
... a walking tour of the old town when we arrived - many pretty cobblestone streets and revivalist houses to look at. There are roman ruins here as well, (yes I know, where AREN'T there roman ruins) the most recent having been accidentally discovered in the 1970s under a shopping mall. Time for a quick dinner before heading off ...
Festivals, Flying and Fotos... Finally ;)
... was freezing. It was like a sort of oasis in our trip around Eastern Europe. Despite feeling so cold that your sure you have a heightened sense of every bone in your body, it was a sort of relief to realise that “being cold” does still exist.
Beglika was just beautiful. I'll leave it to the photos to explain in more detail, not that I trust their judgement, but here's a short description anyway... The entire camp-site and festival location was in the ...