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Dinner With Valeri & Vladi
Just got back from dinner with Valeri & Vladi at the Happy Grill. We had a lot of laughs looking at old pictures and catching up. They couldn't believe how big Zach & Sam have gotten. When Valeri left he told Zach & Sam to study hard and come back one day as ambassadors and to call ...
Sofia explained
... dome with dynamite and detonated it during the funeral, killing 200 and injuring 500 more. The king wasn't there. He was late. Here we are joined by several students and faculty from the American University in Bulgaria who were also late. The tour lasts until almost 3pm, almost two hours longer than billed, and I'm now able to put names next to so much of what I just stumbled across yesterday. Here a few of the things I find out from Filip: *Sofia has no old town because ...
The end of Eastern Europe
... had a horrible bit of weather in Switzerland in mid-September, which I averted by driving to Munich and spending a week there, and also remember a lot of rain in Budapest on a Friday, but otherwise the weather has held up astoundingly well. Like I said, sunlight almost every single morning. I've been blessed to have experienced such a lucky streak with the weather.
From what everybody has said it's extremely doubtful that any city in Greece will excite ...
A little Sofia fo' ya.
... nice little serendipity incident just as we arrived in town in the morning…we began to notice multitudes of police, and one of the main arterial streets was all blocked off with cops on every corner. We warily rode on along this road, enjoying the lack of traffic, but expecting the cops to stop us any time. I was aware that this was about the date of their independence ceremonies, so we were expecting a parade, but there weren't ...
BULGARIA
... then to skip Kazanlak if you are not visiting it in May when you could enjoy the nearby Valley of Roses and the Tracian Tumb with some precious painting on the roof. You want the see the original? You must pay 20 leva but it is generally closed, so you can visit the copy nearby for only 3 leva and it is opened!
So skip it and turn to Veliko Tarnovo, the old capital of the country, a really pleasant city with a lot of hills, old houses and the famous fortress of Tsarevets ...
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