Milena Apartment Sofia

... oops we forgot to tell you the airport is stupidly expensive...cheers dad!

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!!

... day or two in. most of the places worth visiting are churches or temples and they are located close to each other, so it didn’t take me too long to cover most of them, including the oldest, St. Sofia, the church that gives the city its name. I spent some time after that to try to go to the mountain that is just beyond the city limit, but wasn’t successful. What I did find was a nice restaurant where food and wine are good and the prices reasonable ...

... justice in the world and his wife was cheating on him back in America. So, Grahams wife, on the off chance you're reading this, that is what your husband gets up too. We managed to have a fairly decent conversation about non-Bulgarian pussy related stuff, and they were pretty sound blokes really, although that may well have been something to do with the fact they were absolutely ********d. It wasn't long before I realised I wasn't far behind them in this respect and ...

... an old Russian military statue.  It was quite impressive and of course intimidating, but what was most striking was that it is now covered in graffiti and kids have made the site a park to skateboard in.  They have even ripped marble chunks of it off to create part of their park.    We have enjoyed our first taste of Central Europe and are finding it MUCH easier to save money.  For example we managed to find an Irish pub (of course ...

... bath and hold the shower head over your head so you don't flood the whole room but I can live with that. The fact that the toilet is broken and you have to flush it with a bucket of water is starting to grate. But what I can't live with is cockroaches. Yes, we have company. I had some bread and cheese after I got back from sightseeing, then rang mum. When I got back my plate had a roach on it. And there was one running around this keyboard until I whacked it with ...

... is the wiser, and to better learn from my peers, it is at these moments I would typically remain silent, instead we held a debate. I asked the man to what kind of education he had, I suggested economics, as being a finance major, he knew things that are fundamentally taught in Universities (as our conversation was very focused on economical factors of a country). Sure enough he said in his youth he had studied economics, at this point Go is completely lost in ...

... now. The coolest thing ...

... room in second class and I did not get another reservation. I'm actually glad I did not take the overnight train because the ride would have been absolute hell. As is, it was better because I was amused at least for some part of the 11 hours on the train by some Dutch boys who taught me a new card game called Duken. The game is absolutely unlike any I've played before and made the unbearable heat tolerable. (Airconditioning? What's that?) Though watch out for Dutch ...

... t take it, so I left and had doner kebab at 3:00 a.m. That's my weekend meal schedule now - dinner and 3:00 a.m., sleep through breakfast (which is included at most hotels here and I never get my money's worth), and skip lunch because I'm not hungry after the 3:00 street-food. On Sunday (and Monday), I spent a lot of time on the Internet firming up my plans through about July 10 (confirming dates of festivals, booking flights and hotels, etc ...

... when I visit such places, that they just sit there in the middle of the city and you can walk and climb around in them, with nary a "Do not touch" sign in sight. For a late lunch/early supper we went to a restaurant that serves traditional Bulgarian food, which was very good. G insisted on drinking beer and wine, so he became splotchy and funny-looking. Because I had no starter, I ...