Sliven, Bulgaria

... he'll appear in future editions. So, if you ever need to get from Romania to Istanbul and don't want to stop in Bulgaria we can highly recommend the soft sleeper from Bucharest, truly a restful way of travelling. Perhaps we could one day afford the ...

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... for a bit to recover from the climb and eat. Then followed a long series of sweeping bends into a gorgeous valley leading towards Sliven 22km away. Eventually the slope eased and I had to start pedaling again. I had hoped that there was no more pedaling ...

... about the number of kids and their names and stuff like that. then we had a surprise excursion, where we took a chair lift up sliven's famous 'blue rocks' (which aren't blue) and did a hike. the bulgarians from the area didn't even go, since they've seen ...

... , the air's dirty, and everyone (literally) was staring at me whenever I ran. I'm quite sure that nobody exercises in Bulgaria unless they are training for the Olympics and are rich or something. Well I heard of one girl that went jogging in Sofia but ...