Hi Everybody! I am having to play catch up with the blog, because we have not had internet access for several days. I know the travelblog alerts are probably irritating to some of you. Just delete the reminders or hit unsubscribe if it fills up your mailbox. To get to Sofia, we had to ride the bus back to Skopje, Macedonia. We caught another bus there for Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The road to Sofia was extremely bumpy. All of our muscles ached by the time we arrived. Most of the population in Sofia is made up of Orthodox members. [View Full Entry]

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Finally got to Varna! thank god, the sky cleared up today and its perfect for the beach! The night before was alright as well. Went to the hostel, and great people there!! A traveller works temp. there and he is cool!! He brings the guest to all these nice fun places in town! First we went Go-Karting!!! haaa.. 8 of us had a 15min. competition! I started in 4th place for test lap.. and then when the real thing came...AHHH..This guy without a drivers licence created this big car crash and then my place just dropped dramatically!!! AHHHHH So mad!! I [View Full Entry]

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The travel blog site I'm using crashed last week and lost my blog entries but most of them are saved so I will re-post them and update you on my travels in Bulgaria asap, but now I'm off to catch my flight to Vienna! [View Full Entry]

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Not quite sure how things are in news dept as blog seems to have lost 5 entries!!Suffice it to say I'll start on the weekend before Sam's arrival and hope that there is not too much repetition!My warwound on the shin(ex. flatbacks) was really aching so on the 20th I decided to stay at hope for RandR so locked the car Fri night and did not go back to it till Sun am when I decided to check on my e-mails in Dobrich. Set off and because Dobrich rd is reasonable decided to play CD. - surprise no CD player only [View Full Entry]

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I left you in suspense over a week ago and I am sure you have all been sitting by your computers waiting for an update... So after my adventure upon arrival in Sofia, I managed to buy some sun cream and fruit, which involved a lot of pointing and miming. In the evening I went for a meal with some people from the hostel, which also involved a lot of pointing and miming. When we went back to the hostel, the woman who was working there started talking to a couple of us, and we went out with her, which was [View Full Entry]

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As you can tell, all my previous entries ALL GONE!!!! AHHHHHHH ><" I have short memories ma..that's why i write this freakin blog..... and my writing journal isn't as detailed in words as this blog....damnit. Anyways, got a lot to backtrack..haaa.. I think I wrote stuff about Odessa? but its not here....maybe they can recover those ones...which will be great.. anyways, in Bulgaria still...Great Place!!! This was the town I went after Sofia. Very beautiful old town!! The hostel I went in was wonderful with the best hostel staff I have met so far!!!! They informed us about th [View Full Entry]

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Next day had to catch the bus to Veliko Tarnovo...walked around the old town in the morning. The rain is heading to this region...>__<" ahhhh. I loved Plovdiv though....wish I had spent more time there!!!! Anyways, took the bus and arrived at V.T. arrived at this bus station in the middle of nowhere???? it wasn;t on the map!!!! so lost.. thank god for the first time, the payphone and the number worked! I called for free pickup and they came to pick me up to the hostel!!=) The owner there was very nice.....nice hostel...a very diverse crowd...not as fun as [View Full Entry]

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Finally arrived in Sofia.. It was like, 10:30pm and I was at the train station, hoping for someone to pick me up. BUT, noone showed up. So, I was about to get a taxi when they overpriced me! so I decided to take the tram. I have directions to the hostel I wanted to go, but, couldn't find the station to take it!! so asked for help and suprisingly!! I asked these Bulgarian women, which cannot speak a word of English, but was so kind to take me to the tramstop!!!! So nice ne!!!! Anyways, got to the Hostel and its [View Full Entry]

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The woman operating border control at Sofia Airport certainly looked striking enough. In her twenties, dark skin - almost Greek-looking, her face caught my attention first. Dyed, red-orange hair and heavily made-up eyes greeted me as I approached the booth. She said nothing as she scanned my passport and I was soon out the other side. “Did you see that woman’s eyelashes?” I said to Angela. Angela nodded and smiled. Driving into the city centre involved passing block after block of Soviet-style apartment blocks. Most were in major disrepair, but obviously lived i [View Full Entry]

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So I got the plane this morning and when I got to Sofia, I managed to fight off the persistent taxi drivers by informing them that however cheap it was to get to the city centre, the bus was cheaper, and they didn't really have anything to say to that! The bus was an adventure, to say the least (think not validating your ticket despite knowing it has to be done and getting both fined and chucked off the bus!), and I walked unnecessarily far to get the the hostel, but on the bright side, I made a couple of friends [View Full Entry]

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