Princess Sofia

... enough English to have a reasonable conversation with. We talked about what England was like, how much the average wage is, Princess Diana and William & Harry (!), and football in particular whether Berbatov was going to move to Man United. ...

... soon reveal the charms of the Bulgarian capital city. The choice of hotel for the 2-night stay was the commendable Dedeman Princess Sofia hotel, which scored highly on counts of location and range of facilities. Despite being endowed with a limited metro ...

... national treasure, the Sofietskie Park.  This is a beautiful hundred acre park designed in the early 1700's for the Princess Sofia.  It has carriage trails, fountains, ponds and all the trappings of the 1700s.  Something very ...

... We took a bus to Selcuk, to see the ruins of Efes/Efesus, which was interesting but overrun by roughly ten billion people off a Princess cruise ship being herded from site to site by their flag-waving guides. There isn´t much to see in Selcuk except the ...

... you do with a chainsaw) in Chereshevo, where the Marshes have a few properties. This is also where Doug finally met his Bulgarian princess - the Bobcat. The Bobcat is in reality a lovely little old lady who doesn't speak a word of English. She doesn't let ...

... the thought of what could happen in the dark.  Sometimes, five guys within the same block would bombard me with, “Hi, princess,” or the most popular, “Where are you from?”  Who cares?  I wanted to shout back, ...

... to three museums in one day; however, I like to call it a reward. Yup, we rented a rowboat, and Chad rowed his little princess all around the lake in the sweltering sun. There was a hefty amount of complaining on his part, but he tried not to ruin it ...

... piece at the Prado is Velazquez's masterpiece, "Las Meninas," which is a detailed portrait of a scene that includes a Spanish princess, her dogs, some servants, a midget, her grandparents' ghosts, Velazquez himself, and a bunch of other paintings that are ...

... in Turkey named after our family - the Haseki Hospital (my aunt even told me some story of an ancestor saving the life of a princess!). The Haseki Hospital is in fact named for Haseki Hürrem Sultan, the wife of Sultan Süleyman, who ordered the complex ...

... which led to the first main fountain, Fuente de los Galápagos. This fountain was dedicated to the birth of the baby princess Elizabeth II. The fountain is organized in 3 levels, all adorned with aquatic foliage and water jets in the form of Galapagos ...

... which we could not even understand the information about. Excellent. Our next cultural stop was more rewarding - we went to Princess Ljubica's Mansion which we both decided we wouldn't mind living in ourselves - lots of sitting rooms, artworks and some ...

... of Hungary built a convent on the island vowing that if the country survived the Mongol invasions he would place his daughter Princess Margaret in it. Survive they did and Margaret was duly packed off never to leave again thus giving the island its name. ...

... her: "her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the ...

    A movie that I love very much is Roman Holdiay, with Audrey Hepburn. Although I am not a rebellious princess (not officially, at least), Rome offered me so much beauty and fun today. I had a biiiiiiig sleep-in, this morning, ...

... as it was blocking a slight bit of Goethe's view), we headed back and hit the hay.  Friday I caught the ferry over to Princess Island - about an hour from Istanbul, a very cute little place. I looked around for a couple of hours, had a Turkish coffee ...

... continues well into the middle of the night.  It is right out of a Disney fairytale…though I didn’t find my princess or anything.  Haha The following day we return for brunch and a tour of the estate grounds.  The place is ...

... the captain, you must sit down (kinda like in Aladdin when Jasmine tells the guards to unhand him and then says "By order of the Princess" as she takes off her hood... yeah, just like that). The brit sasses him back saying, "Is it an order of the ...