Yantra Grand Hotel Veliko Turnovo

... the property is cheap and the lev is a beautiful thing traveling with US dollars. Other people have noticed this an a lot of foreigners are starting businesses and buying property. in a few years when the Euro is here - these investments almost guarantee returns and riches . . .
The Black sea is stunning! Its very cold, but serene and inviting.
Here in Burgas I rest for a few days and tomorrow my adventure continues . . Stay tuned
Love you all!

... avec leur groupe
d'ailleurs si vous connaissez des plans pour les accueillir?
elles adorent les montagnes et vont ci balader dés qu'elles ont du temps libre.
Elles nourrissent des chiens héranx chaque semaines.
elles sont formidables et si elles lisent ces quelques lignes, on les embrasse.

Pour ce qui est de sofia, on cherche un job, quelque piste ainsi qu'un appart.
to be continued.........
 
 
 
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... aurait été risquée: on est pas des fous quand même!!! la pluie c'est une chose mais la boue en est une autre surtout quand on ne peut pas laver son linge quand on le désir.

Sur cette sage décision,
nous avons décider de nous diriger vers le soleil et donc d'aller sur les bords de la mer noire, une plage nommée Irakli (également conseillé par nos amis de Sofia)
Cette plage est fantastique, un endroit comme on en aimerai plus ...

... br>Our first day we just explored the city a little bit. Found the market (do we always do that on the first day?) and took a look at the church now converted into an art museum. We actually only intended to use the toilet in the Museum, but luck turned out that we had arrived on the free day of the week for the museum and so we could take a look around. The museum clearly had "many" visitors. When we entered the wonderfully cool building, a woman sitting at the front ...

... be no fun in the traffic). However I do emerge with a rough route.

More sleeping is done, I check / adjust the bike and repack for cycling mode. I also need to get some batteries and bits. girls will be gone by the time I get back so I also say goodbye. They are cool about this and I'm not that surprised. I give Viola a joke present; this is a bar of soap which they say they never use when walking. They ...

... a nice meal in the restuarant next door and I went to bed because I was exhausted but the people who stayed up were invited by the locals to join in with the mass to see in Orthodox Easter Sunday. It involved the church bells ringing a lot which I did hear, and walking around the church 3 times with a lit candle to absolve your sins, I think. If your candle went out it was in someway not good.

... was just a tap at hip-height on the wall, but nobody cared because we got to sleep in a BED!!!! We were in dorms and I was sharing with a bunch of the girls.



Bulgaria is mostly Greek and Eastern orthodox, so we got to celebrate our second Easter Sunday. At 11pm the bells rang out into the night to call the monks to mass, and some of the group rang in Easter with a candle-light ceremony in the chapel, but I was tucked away in bed by this point!

... decided against it. But it seemed to be my only option to take a train tonight to Bucharest and then try and get one to Budapest from there tomorrow. This did not impress the woman. I said sorry and she got rather cross, jabbering away in Bulgarian going "blah blah blah 'sorry', blah sofia, blah harumph" or words to that effect! She rang up again and cancelled the Budapest ticket and I eventually got a train to Bucharest booked for ...

... effects were from cars "cruising" the car park to try to figure out if the show was going ahead or not. Suddenly all the streetlights went out, there was the crackle of a sound system, some pan pipes and then.... silence followed by the streetlights coming on again. Now, after dark, it gets a bit chilly in these parts so we were starting to wonder if anything was going to happen. There certainly weren't many people sat ...

... means closed, unless it is savotoreno (shoot!!). So feeling very brave, I asked the man, "Galeria savoreno?" The man gave a cryptic nod then shake of his head. WHAT?? Com'on sir, work with me here! I finally have said something semi-intelligible in Bulgarian and you just nod and shake? No "dah" or "ney" even??? Now, you may wonder why I was so confused, but upon first arriving, one of the first bits of advice Mary gave me was that Bulgarians nod when they mean no and shake ...