Brod Sofia

... way to Greece, plus Dan, an English university student that looks like Simon Pegg; all 4 of had gone out the night before and so wanted to stay in to play drinking games (am I the only one who's never heard of Ring of Fire?). I came to rue it the next day when I observed how poorly it reacts with the antihisthamines I'm taking for my various bugbites, but I was proud at the time that the Korean-American had outdrunk 4 English twentysomethings.

We did go ...

... at one of these modern shopping centres which are springing up. The basic format seems to be supermarket in the basement, food court and cinema on the top floor and extensive indoor parking. It also means lots of fashionable shops and not much in the way of trolleys. Heading towards the station I try one of these bizarre assorted hardware shops and it has a shopping trolleys which appear to have detachable bags. Later ...

... lennu kohta tuli teade "gate closed". Loomulkult tekkis meis täiesti alusega paanika, et kas ikka saab veel peale või mitte. Jõudes väravani hakkas Risto kohe asja ajama, et "te saate küll meid peale lasta kui te vaid vaevaks võtaks. Check Ini daam vaatas Ristole pikalt otsa ja küsis "what do you want?"ning seletas, et lennuk hilineb 20min ja võib rahulikult istet võtta. No mine võta kinni, mis see "go to gate" märge siis tähendas, igatahes tundus, et aega on j ...

... stress! 2 hours in we start to stress a litlle... The aircon now works (thank goodness) but the ticket lady gave us the weirdest look when she saw our tickets... Now we have stopped at a station and the driver, ticket lady and conductress have are all sitting round having a smoke!!! Passengers all seem calm... More are hopping on... Why aren't we moving???!!!!!!!!!!! We are meant to be in Sofia now, eating a quiet dinner.... Ok, so we figure with all the ...

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... were covered in thick pines and dark greenery that reminded me of the Black Hills of South Dakota, but the landscape was distinct and different from other mountains that I've seen. Rich and I got back to the hotel and began the long, arduous process of return travel. We booked an 8:30 p.m. bus, and I slept the whole way back to Istanbul (except for the two hour stint at the border, of course). Thursday, June 14--Istanbul We got to ...

... city in the European Union), and some 1,377,761 in the metropolitan area, the Capital Municipality.[1] It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, and economic centre of the country.

... beyond my reach. He dropped me off in front of the overbooked Hostel Mostel with a cruel bill for ten leva and screeched off into the night. The friendly hostel clerk gave me a xeroxed map of the neighbourhood which enabled me to find the lovely family-owned Hostel Sofia down a pitch dark corridor nearby, most ...

... compact so we were able to see all the sites. We walked around the churches and cathedrals in town. Even finding the church of Saýnt Sofia which Sofia was named from. We also found a Russian church and numerous Russýan monuments. There were frescoes all over the insides of these churches, but we were not allowed to take photos. I complied, quite sadly. We moved on and found one of the crappiest monuments I have ever seen. It was ...

... off the bus, we both burst into fits of laughter when i made the call, "Oh my God". Everything is written in Cyrillic so it was time to find the Lonely Planet phrasebook and make some sense to having the number 3 jumbled inside a word. We walked around for about half an hour and tried to find the town of Bansko on the buses noticeboards to no avail, that's when we stumbled on this little chap who saw us wandering around without a bloody clue and ...