Central Hotel Forum Sofia
41 Tsar Boris III Blvd. Sofia, 1612, Bulgaria
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Sofia: Trying to be a capital city
Sofia is an enigmatic capital city. It is neither a beautiful showpiece of a city nor a modern financial capital. The streets are still filled with Ladas and Trabants, and walking down the street one is not accosted by the monotony of Western advertisement. I had been in Bulgaria last in 1986. A lot has changed since then, but more than any other …
"Bulgaria is the new place to be"
Being a university student in a poorer part of one of the most expensive cities in the world sure teaches me to find new ways of having fun with minimal spending. Holidays usually involve flying to Rome for a quick mid-week 'let's skip lectures' getaway with a Ryanair 40pence flight deal. So, when I met a new group of well-travelled students from …
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Grand Sofia
... called the Square of Tolerance (for obvious reasons). Later on in the tour as we walked past some Roma gypsys someone asked a question (which I missed), but the answer was 'Yes, the government is trying to be tolerant, but it's not working because all they do is breed and breed and breed. We really just want to get rid of them all as they're all robbers'. I find it hard to comment or judge this comment as I am not Bulgarian and it ...
Back to Sofia
... photos of the baby booties we bought off the old women on the streets of Istanbul, so we head to St. George’s Church for some great shots on the 800 year old church’s stones.
Dinner at Happy’s on the main road…prices are soooo much cheaper here than in Turkey. On the way into town we saw a bowling alley…why not? So we get a taxi back out towards the hotel and point to the bowling alley as it comes into ...
Sofiear
... idea why. Figure the best bet is to get to turkey as quick as possible and send my passport back to the UK to process there. I find a company who will do it for me but charge £250. Unfortunately this means no Kazakhstan and a month to get from sochi to vladivostok.
Don't really see much of sofia, its bank holidays whilst we're there. It seemed quiet, a nice city with lots of trams but more than anything a Russian embassy that didn't give me a visa, but did give me a ...



