Legends Sofia

... oops we forgot to tell you the airport is stupidly expensive...cheers dad!<br><br>car ride was looong but its quite a nice journey scenerys lovely. you go out of sofia and through the mountains then its through farmers fields and small villages dotted about. notlooking forward to the bus trip back though, the parents don't fancy a 10 hour round trip to take us back to the airport too, damn!!

... go in or not, and if we give them a minute we can all go upstairs together.<br><br>Wait - upstairs?<br><br>Dan looked at me a tad sheepishly - perhaps us being on the wrong floor is a better explanation for the decor discrepancies than the Bulgarian capacity to redecorate in the space of 2 days. When we went back inside, the others were no longer at the table, apparently having regained their skepticism in Dan's absence. We found them midway up the stairs -- stairs ...

... I took a stroll around the city taking in the sights. Sofia is actually a really nice place there are cobbled streets and trams running along it, it was also nice and quite being a Sunday and holiday that helped. I grabbed some fruit from the market something I try and do everyday to keep up the healthy eating, Matt and Gary will be chuckling to themselves reading this as they know how much I like my health eating! I generally strolled ...

... months now and I have the basics of the Turkish language down: is there/are there, where, what, when, why, basics for transportation, as well as many of the most common verbs. I would classify my comprehension as basic and my speaking skills as a step below basic. Still, I can walk into any store and feel comfortable finding what I need, and If I can't I can ask where and how to get there. Not the case in Bulgaria. Fortunately, as I said before, many people speak English. We settled on a ...

... up with water. Unfortunately he only had a 1.5L bottle and we think it might not have had a cap because he would go looking for some water at someone's house fill it up and then drive on and when it got hot again he would find another tap somewhere. Strange Bulgarian Behaviour! Got to the top eventually and we climbed on some the large boulders which concealed the river underneath before Greg went to examine a Cyrillic map. He came back not ...

... to padlismy i spalismy jak male dzieci. Rano kazde z nas wzielo prysznic na stacji benzynowej, po 20km zjedlismy sniadanie - zupe w przydroznym barze, a jeszcze przed Belgradem Jaser zaprosil nas na kawe. Byl naprawde przemily, ciagle nam stawial jakies jedzenie. Moglismy z nim jechac przez Chorwacje, az do Budapesztu, ale mielismy dosc... jego muzyki. To by&#322; disco-folklor turecki. Mozna tego sluchac przez godzine czy dwie, a mysmy byli wystawieni ...

... bath, and about 6000 banks. We crossed the set of a movie shoot, so now we're famous celebrities in Bulgaria. We drank mineral water from a spring in the middle of downtown. Hopefully their sewage system has tight seals...we'll keep you updated. The architecture is beautiful here in Sofia, but none of the buildings are very old. A lot of them were bombed in the second World War and rebuilt. There's ...

... he does not know to drive!! We finally arrive at the hotel alive, good performance if we compare with the number potential accident that we could have had. We bargain a room for 10 &euro; (for 2) and began to take some good rest after this long first travelling day.

... looked just seedy enough to be horrible, so we all agreed and in we went. It was as I'm sure even the most conservative amongst you can imagine an Eastern European strip club to be like.... Red velvet curtains, a pole, horrible music, loads of false smiles, and no actual stripping - the ladies just walked around naked. Some put more effort into the actual pole dancing than others, and to be fair they showed a startling defiance to gravity in more ways than ...

Die Hinfahrt begann viel versprechend... Hitchhiking in Rumaenien ist ja recht okay, und an der Grenze halfen mir die Grenzer, ein Auto zum Passieren der Grenze zu finden. Ein Syrer nahm mich ueber die Donaubruecke mit, die rumaenische Pass- und Zollkontrolle und bulgarische Pass-, Zoll-, Strassenmaut- und Desinfektionsstelle trennt. Dann per Schwertransport mit 60 km/h nach Sofia - und abends holte mich nach ein paar Umstaendlichkeiten, schwarzer Busfahrt, und einem ...