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Hotel Berkut Plovdiv

35 Al. Stamboliiski street, Brestnik Village Plovdiv, Plovdiv, 4107, Bulgaria

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Beautiful Bulgaria

A travel blog entry by tylerandtori

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... The old town was filled with antique stores selling unique items; collector coins, traditional clothing, war memorabilia, pottery and antique jewellery. There are a lot of neat restaurants and cafes, and stray cats also seem to appear from every crevice! We really liked it here. We bought two hand painted espresso cups from a local shop, everything here is very decently priced. One interesting experience we ...

Da, Da, Da ...

A travel blog entry by pwong

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... sights, like the road being blocked by storks and donkey-drawn carts, and in addition to crater-sized potholes, road hazards such as raised manhole covers being kindly marked with big piles of rocks, forcing drivers to weave all over the road.

Lucked out today - the hotel owner's mother was driving some other guests to Plovdiv, a mother and daughter from Varna, so I was able to hitch a ride with them, at a price probably only ...

Livin' hobbit style

A travel blog entry by lyndshane

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... choices, including lamb head (boneless....if you want), chicken hearts, calf tongue and duck lungs/liver. Bottom line - they don’t waste anything here and good on’em, really. For the record, neither of us felt adventurous enough to try lamb head. Sorry to disappoint.

After spending a bit of time the following morning researching the Russian visa situation (and getting very frustrated with it – need an invitation, have to enter/exit on specific ...

How do you like your tripe? Green?

A travel blog entry by garynbrown

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... 8221; and wanted to know what part of the animal that was. I told her it is the part of the animal you don’t eat, and yes, green tripe would qualify. We have been eating a lot of traditional meals here; the menu a couple of nights ago offered “cow’s brains with tripe served in skull”. I had salad.

Ok, it is time for me to get going; lots of activity around right now and I need to see the, ah…..ruins. Yes, ruins, they are looking particularly good ...

Puddles in Plovdiv

A travel blog entry by chris.cesca

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... notes out of his wallet as keepsakes and the he was gone. The rest of the journey was routine although we did wonder for a bit if we were on the right bit of the train when it split in two just before the border. Fortunately we were and soon we arrived at our destination of Plovdiv. There was no specific reason why we had chosen Bulgaria's second city to stay we had just heard from a few people that it was nicer than the capital Sofia and it was a bit nearer Turkey. Our directions ...