Hotel Aris Sofia
203 Kniaz Boris Purvi St. Sofia, 1202, Bulgaria
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First day/night incountry.
So just where is Bulgaria? The southern border is with Turkey and Greece. The Black Sea is on the east, with Macedonia and Serbia on the west and Romania to the north. For comparison, Bulgaria is roughly the size of Tennessee, the 34th largest state in the USSA.
Why Bulgaria? Six months ago Equitours sent to me a brochure listing worldwide …
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The responses change but the problems remain...
... care leavers: for more details see fscibulgaria.com
We'd love to show you some pictures but we agreed with the unit manager that we wouldn't show the childrens faces so you'll have to make do with the video clip here.
Things are changing here in the state care system, which is seeing a shake-up of previous rules and practices- but there is still a long way to go to reduce the number ...
The furthest point from home
... to stay at hostel mostel! The first day, we literally saw all the possible sights and just chilled in a country where at 5 it was still 30+ degrees! In the evening we ventured to re bar were we wer given free shots, and we both for the first time tried absinthe! Interesting experience! The next day we wer up to climb my vitotosha (I think that's how you spell it) ...
All fine in the end
... orphanage coioncided with Chrissy's arrival and so was her first taste of a Christmas box distribution. She couldn't have timed it better: Gurkovo is on of our favourite places to visit and we spent ah hour and a half there as Mr Big played his third gig of the day and we wtahced the children (40+ 3-7 year olds) open and enjoy their presents. The pictures tell you so much more than we can so just have a look to see how much your gifts mean to these kids...
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Lost in Translation :)
Let me say this...we saw the sun come up on the train from Istanbul to Sofia. It was quite pretty actually, but we didn't do it on purpose.
We crossed the border from Turkey to Istanbul at 4:00am. The train guy walked by, knocked on the door and woke us up to go outside and get our exit stamps. To get there we walked beside the train for a little while and then down stairs to go under the other ...



