Sveti Alexandar Nevski Cathedral

We were attacked...by gypsies...very small ones

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May 24th 2009
The day started with an early 6am train from Thessaloniki, Greece to Sophia, Bulgaria. Which meant a 4am start for us the get ourselves and the baby washed, dressed and packed, and then a hurried scramble to the train station dragging our suitcase behind us (we were too cheap to pay for a taxi, so dragged that thing for 30mins semi-jogging - almost broke my arm off half a dozen times when the whe ... read more

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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, b... ... read more