Jenny here, hi guys!! Finally made it into Bulgaria after extremely long detour to get across the border from romania, which resulted in us doing 65, 90 and 85 miles on three successive days! Only been in Bulgaria 4 days and already had a coulpe of epics! On saturday when we crossed the bridge into Bulgaria it was 7pm and we had already done 80 miles. Ian punctured crossing the bridge and by the time he fixed it, it was nearly dark. Cue rather thrilling (in a bad way) 5 mile ride along dual carrieageway into town of Ruse, looking for signs for centre all the way....not the easiest in the dark, trying to read signs in Cyrillic!! Anyway when reached town, dived into first hotel we saw which turned out to be really nice. just
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