Slavyanska Beseda Sofia
3 Slavyanska Street Sofia, 1000, Bulgaria
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So...fia, yet so far
... city. They are doing all that they can though to embrace Capitalism and improve the city´s infrastructure.
Day 1 for us was pretty much a washout as torrential rain all afternoon mean´t that we were confined to the hostel. Day 2 started with a 5 hour trek up Mount Vitosha which was knackering but was great to get out into nature and out of the city for a while. On the evening we took advantage of the free walking tour which was interesting ...
Sofia Synagogue.
... There were some old Jewish guys inside, arguing in hebrew about Torah and Talmud. They didn't seem to notice us. Old Jewish men are the same the world around, yeah?
Once you're inside the Synagogue you have pretty free reign to explore. For example, I climbed a sketchy wooden latter from the third floor to the fourth floor attic, but there was just a lot of dust and paint cans ...
Sofia, pretty name, pretty city.
... in it "Stop acting like a Christian, just be one" and now I have similar thoughts on visiting a church - what happened tho these devotion, passion, talented, Spirit filled churches so that they're now little more than museums, floors worn away by the trasping of tourists rather than the knees of people seeking God?
*Today's fact for the day -
Saints Ciril and Methodius of BULGARIA invented the Cyrillic alphabet. Not Russians as most would be led to ...
Boxing clever
... directing boxes to the various groups and making sure all the numbers added up.
In the afternoon the team split up to deliver boxes to other groups with Rich, Beccy and Niki visiting an NGO based in the Fakulteta District of Sofia, a large Roma community with an unofficial population of 30,000 people. Here the team visited a children's centre that provides a kindergarten and ...
Nice to be here
... timing. We hop on the bus that looks brand new and its quite nice. We say goodbye to Sofia, a pleasant city.
Some of the Bulgarian countryside is so pretty and lush with lots of pine trees and then a lot of it is just flat and pretty boring. We couldn’t believe the millions paddocks filled with once bright sunflowers but now they are sad and droopy and dying off. Not only was there paddocks of sunflowers but also heaps of cabbages, fruit trees and corn fields.
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