Arena Di Serdica Boutique Sofia

Apres deux jours a découvrir la vie nocturne de Sofia en compagnie de trois filles géniales et de leurs nombreux amis, nous sommes partis dans les Balkans a Maza-lat faire un trek. Nous avons logé dans un gîte de montagne remplis de Bulgares tous plus amicaux les uns que les autres. Nous en avons profiter pour prendre quelques cours de danse traditionnelle, Ber s'avère être un très bon ...

... who ditched us at the Bulgarian border. I'd like to note that the Serbia-Bulgaria border, and specifically the restaurant that sits on the Bulgarian side, is the HEART of swarthiness, and the bastion of hand and back hair. Never before have I dined amongst so many ten-AM shadows and greasy mustaches. Astoundingly, this restaurant had another model of the same USSR-made sixteen-button accordion that I'd lost on ...

... He looked at me dissapointedly `only one?` i said yes and he left with my passport.I fell asleep immediately.He came back in a minute and repeated `bulgaria only one day`. I opened my eyes and thoughts of telling him to **** off and let me sleep passed through my mind,but instead i put the asian smile on my face and repeated `yes` I slept for about 4 more hours and woke up in the afternoon. Everyone in the train was bored with barely any food left for breakfast ...

... the end of the conversation he pocketed it, the cheeky bugger, rather than giving it back! Good job I didn't show him a £20 note! He was a nice bloke, but I would have rather he stop smoking in the living room and drinking Campari and lemonade (!) and go and fix the toilet instead.... What else to tell you about Sofia? Oh another little quirk is the 'squat' shops. In the early 90's in the spirit of capitalism people started opening their own shops etc but as it was ...

... for foreign visitors, such as Golden Sands and Sunny Beach, the letter being the largest resort with the longest and widest strip of beach. Its hotels look out over the sea among dunes and it is known as the sunniest resort in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Black Sea coast has been inhabited since time immemorial, with earliest records dating back to the 5th century BC. Situated in the southern part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Riviera ...

... time we should have been at the border so I open the door and my Serbian friend is there, offering me drugs again. I think when said 'maybe later' to get rid of him, he took it literally. But then I realised why he'd befriended me earlier on when his mate asked if I could hide their massive stash of cigarrete cartons under my bed during the border crossing. A definitive 'no' and then back to bed to ...

... and NY. Seeing as I was still sick with a red, runny nose, I knew I had no mojo and there was no point flirting with anyone. Plus Mari had already mentioned her boyfriend arriving the next day. We met a couple Irish travelers at the pub and they joined our group and came back with us to the hostel at the end of the evening for more drinks. The night ended with me, Mari and the Irish sitting around the downstairs bar and Dave sulking in the corner. I thought it was a fun ...

... out when a few 19 y/o Irish girls got caught stealing sodas. <br><br>The farther north I travel the more women I see with dyed hair. Why most 50 y/o women find that completely unnatural color of red attractive is beyond me. It could work on a young, Goth girl....but the homely hair cuts of these older women + 1" roots are a site. I'll post a pic if I can ever get a really good one. <br><br>On a completely separate train of ...

... by 2 hours, we finally boarded our plan to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. We EVENTUALLY touched down in Sofia and were met by our resort rep and waiting coach. On the way to the resort (90 minute transfer) we were kept well entertained by some very bad Bulgaria commentary, some huge potholes but even more so by Ryan's dodgy chair ...

... I fell in love with the Danube! It is wide and pulses with life. The whole country was verdant and lush with agriculture, trees, orchards and even a few vinyards. I came to understand experientially why the Neolithic people called the River and the earth the Great Mother. The Vinca site was a little disappointing because there was very little to see except for the site. They set up their musuem in July and August. We heard a fascinating presentation on ...