Veliko Turnovo Interhotel

... which was so welcome to me. <br>My next 2 weeks before I meet Josh in Athens is to see more Bulgaria. <br>Tomorrow morning I am heading to Varna. I woudl tell you where I plan to go after that, but whats the use in planning? . . Meeting travelers comes with changing plans so like a wave, my plan is to just roll with it and ride it out. <br><br>I must mention my main notion on Bulgaria as a country. . .<br>Having just entered the EU in 2007, it is bustling with ex-pats and ...

... se déroulent comme nous l'espérons vous êtes tous dors et déjà invité dans notre futur "chez nous pour le moment"!!!<br>La bise a tous <br>Be happy and keep smile it's better for life !!!!<br><br>Une chose a dire, ce n'est pas l'amour qui l'a attrapé sur ce coup là mais la flemme.<br>bon c 'est vrai, on est a l'apéro<br>;)<br> <br><br> pour vous donner plus d'informations, <br>nos deux mamies jouent de la mandoline et parcourent l ...

... petite nuit. (petite nuit car très petit coffre. je pense qu'avec un mètre de moins, j'aurais pu étendre mes jambes: merci maman, merci papa)<br>Matthieu quand a lui, a fait confiance à son instinct:<br>- pas de vent, on voit les étoiles:::: je dors dehors<br>Grande fut ma joie quand à 6h du matin, un petit bonhomme entra avec précipitation dans la voiture, la pluie était là!<br><br>La pluie étant donc là et bien installée,l ...

Veliko Tarnovo was a great stop for us. A lovely chilled hostel, free t-shirt, a fort, and a waterfall. What more could you ask for? We took an early morning bus from Sofia and got picked up by a guy from our hostel. The people running this hostel were really amazing. They constantly had friends coming over to hang out, made us several lunches of sopska salad and sausages, and even organized a trip for four of us out to a swimming hole with a small waterfall to jump off ...

... terrific company. So I do some planning of my own trip and think about a route to Istanbul.<br><br>The main problem is a couple of tough mountain days but I'm resolved to enter Turkey by a more northern entry point and follow a quieter road into Istanbul. I'm also thinking of staying somewhere near the airport on the asian side. This might mean a ferry transit across Istanbul rather than riding it (which ...

... away from the town for a bit to find a monastery that has dormorteries for guests. The monks at the one we were headed for don't speak any English so it was pointless calling them beforehand so we were a bit doubtful about whether they'd have room for us. We did eventually find them and got sorted out with dorm rooms. The beds were quite soft but the luxury of a bed at all was brilliant. We ...

Saturday we crossed over the Danube and into Bulgaria. I hadn't realised they used a different alphabet to English, but it somehow marked our first real change.<br style=""> <br style=""> <br><br>We visited a beautiful Bulgarian town called Veliko Tarnovo in the afternoon. Wandered around and had a lovely lunch of a big pizza and drinks (all for about £3!) ate some ice cream and did a spot of shopping. We spent the night in the Dayonovo monastery. It was a little weird and the ...

... was a notice in the hostel advising people the train bureau shuts at 12 on a Saturday. I told the woman, Budapest tomorrow and she rang up and booked it and then handed me the timetable which had it arriving about 7 hours after I expected it to! So I told her no I can't arrive at this time, and asked for a minute to think. I had thought about getting a v late train from here overnight to Bucharest to see the city for a few hours but ...

... In a slightly idiosyncratic way the event runs each evening (start time between 8 and 9:30) so long as there are at least 30 paying spectators. Obviously the locals know this so the people who pay must be limited to coach tours. On the night we decided to go and see it we sat at the foot of the hill on some wooden benches, that looked designed for the purpose, with about 5 other people, and waited expectantly. The only ...

... was there. Apparently, if I, the lone tourist in this country, do not show up to a museum right at opening, they close shop and go home. I saw a man with a very official looking neon yellow vest with his trash bag walking near the museum and finally pieced together my first almost complete Bulgarian sentence. I saw on the sign after deciphering the Cyrillic that they called the art museum not a museum but a gallery. I also have learned from reading many shop stores that ...