Apartment House Sofia

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Tim and I were pretty excited to leave remote Serbia and visit Bulgaria's capital, Sofia. Really, what would a town named "Wisdom" be like? Would the people be wise? Would we learn some wisdom just by visiting? The answer to at least the second question is "yes" - we should have been far wiser than to expect 'Wisdom' to be a free-flowing source of the same. Our ride from Nis to the Bulgarian border was a cigarette ...

... a damn. Our lovely compartment conductor who made our lives easier by answering in Bulgarian to every question asked by 30 backpackers who were not Bulgarian yelled `Kapikule` and we got out for the passport check.It was foggy,cold and after 10 hours of Tracian Turkey, it was the Balkans.  Then there was the Bulgarian border patrol. They didn`t bother to knock-or kick- the door, they just broke in. They asked all three of us `how mani day in bulgaria` and i said ...

... nice, although I did have a bit of a hangover headache in the morning! The next evening I had a bit of a chat with the owner of the hostel who spoke enough English to have a reasonable conversation with. We talked about what England was like, how much the average wage is, Princess Diana and William & Harry (!), and football in particular whether Berbatov was going to move to Man United. He asked to see some English money, so I found 20p for him to look at. But ...

We finished up in Bucharest. There really isn't all that much to see and we got on the night train to Sofia. There wasn't too much sleep and the boarder was a bit sketchy considering we ended up in a compartment with someone traveling on a US Diplomat passport but without a visa, which I guess is something you normally need if you are traveling on such a passport. Anyhow, we are in Sofia and it is very nice compared to Bucharest. It is a quite little city and ...

My first night train experience. I was so exited. The sleeper car is surprisingly well designed - there is a sink and the equivalent of a bathroom mirror (although after a week of backpacking the face on the other side of the mirror wasn't ideal...) As soon as I boarded a Serbian guy from one of the other sleepers offered me a beer. Cool why not. So after a couple of beers with him and his mate we'd ...

... across town to a field with a good view of the town. The train ride back was uneventful and I pretty much just sat there. Back at the hostel, I hung out with Mari and crazy Dave. There were some new people at the hostel that wanted to be the center of attention. Rather than learn everyone's names, we started calling each other by where we were from (e.g., Oregon, New York, Finland). I was surprised there were so many Americans at the hostel. A group of 10 Mormon girls ...

... to Metallica. Too much fun. We had planned on only drinking a few quick beers as he was catching a train the next morning but ended up rolling back into the hostel at about 3:30AM. Phil was an interesting guy and we talked on and on about travelling, politics, art, ...

The second night was nearly a repeat with a different crowd and location - we had cocktails and smoked a nargilla at Buddha Bar and nearly got ourselves ...

the train ride through bulgaria was quite a culture shock. it really look like we traveling thourgh communist country, tanks, donkey pulled carts everywhere, bombed houses. but sofia was actually lot more westernised then i had expected lots of shops on the ground levels of apartment buildings, fast food restraunts, and we even found a shopping mall. there is so much history in sofia it is a very interesting city, but i'm sure it would have be very different story not to long ago.

... Neolithic art and artefacts and even less funding. It has now become a hot news item. Joan, Harold and Shan Winn (the first archaeologist to do serious reseach on the Vinca and Lipenski Vir Neolithic signs and symbols) were constantly being interviewed by TV, radio and other newscast people. The people from the Academy were beaming with joy over the enthusiastic news coverage. It was also great to spend 5 to 6 days in Novi Sad. We became quite ...