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Painful trip to...but warm welcome in...Sofia
... be the Sofia train station... at 11am (an hour before our originally planned arrival even with our 2-3hr delay at the border). We still have no clue how this happened, but OMG, I was giddy with excitement!!!
First we confirmed we were in fact in sofia (as we couldn't read anything because it was written in Russian-alphabet cyrillic) by finding the non-obvious translation in our guidebook. Then we checked our bags at the train station and took ...
Sofia by bicycle
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An embarrassing day for me all round really
... and said 'these?, these are coffee stirrers, Erika!'. The waiter found this whole exchange very amusing, but did bring out some toothpicks straight afterwards so obviously he understood some of it! Oops!
Embarrassing moment # 3: This blog. I spent eight hours on a bus and 3 hours at a bus station. Not much happened today, ergo this pretty boring blog! Not every day of travelling can be so exciting! ...
1 - Dennis & Brenda; 0 - Jet Lag Monster
... worked apparently. Nikolay, the local fellow virologist who is our main contact here, met us at our hotel. (This, after I literally melted my $200 hair iron due to the plug adapter...you'd think after all the traveling that we do that this wouldn't happen to us - think again! And since I cannot live without this accessory, I'm quite distraught!! This means my hair will look terrible for all the pictures from our vacation. Ugh.) Anyhow, we walked through part ...
The Ace of Spades
... Judas Priest, Motorhead, and Iron Maiden songs. Sitting in the park with the head banging teens, gypsies, and confused older generation was one of the more memorable events of my trip.
I met a guy from California who was in Bulgaria for two years with the Peace Corp starting a youth center. It's basically sink or swim as he was thrown into a mountain village near the border of Greece and having to learn a new language written in a different ...
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