http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Bulgaria en-us Sat, 17 May 2008 12:46:33 BST Sat, 17 May 2008 12:46:33 BST Not a whole lot going on in Sofia. The place is actually kind of boring though there are a few things to see. Perfect for a pit stop unless you're there on a bachelor party I saw a few of those or on somebody's birthday some of the guys I met later on had that as the place is cheap with good looking girls.Tuesday May 13thNot a whole lot of sleep on the train this morning as I kept on n http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-276585.html Mikkel and I are headed for Turkey After everything that went on last night I called him at 7 to make sure he was up in time to meet me at the train station at 830. He said it was a really good thing I did otherwise he would have slept right through his alarm. He was very somber and groggy when I met him around 20 to 9 so I gave him a hard time about his hangover but then told him Irsquo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/blog-270806.html It wasn't until a friend contacted me to see if I was OK that i realised it had been 6 wks since last communication. Got 200Lv off car repair as they said that part looked reasonable first time so to save money700Lv for this part they sent me out without it. Total cost 500Lv incl service and German maanufactured part .Now going superbly and taking over as workhorse from caravanna with the excep http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Boyana/blog-268862.html Je parn bulharsk odpoledne. Prv283 jsme projeli Sofi. Po prav stran283 za sebou nechvme kopce poho345 Vitoscarona msto vkendov rekreace mnoha Sofij269an367. Za pr kilometr367 u jsou vid283t vrcholy nejvyscaronscaronho balknskho poho345 Rily i s jej majesttn Musalou. My vscaronak m345me dl na jih po silnici spojujc bulharsk vnitrozem s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Bansko/blog-265899.html Just as I thought things had settled well I found that my expensive clutch had started to slip already as a result i am having to loose the car for 2 days while it is sorted. Yesterday went to garage with meta and daughter for support re unacceptability and in 2 hours when I go back today to leave it I have the unenviable prospect of trying to get dogmatic re free repair.They have already start http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Boyana/blog-255681.html With the houses and myself on mend I belatedly turned my attention to Bottiemade especially important at the first hint of pungent smell from flowers on porch He has got himself linked with the other look alike female M's and I am just hoping that it's at the just good friends stage or it will be like locking the stable doorAnyway I have just come from the vet's in Dobrich and I will co http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Dobrich/blog-250218.html hi everyone i have been in bulgaria in plovdiv it was so nice city ...i think you should see immediatelly bulgaria before using euro becouse its a cheap country and there are many historical places to see ... especially ottoman heritage is still living there .. maybe some bulgarians dont like about this sentences but ist true i think the houses at plovdiv are so nice they made from wood a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/South/Plovdiv/blog-246333.html So to continue.As you know the winter weather had arrived in style on my return thus cramping my actions to a degree.However nowalthough some roads still have snow verges most of the land is clear.I just have 2 small pockets remaining at boyana both houses. There is a minor trickle emanating from groundfloor new shower tap installation that I intend to get fixed and No 24 had to have a new wat http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Boyana/blog-243412.html In theory I traveled to Sofia Bulgaria for the EGEEII AllActivity Meeting but in reality I just traveled towards it. I will be damned if this doesn't become part of my travel blog to Sofia Bulgaria. Here is my story ENJOYStarting my day at 5am to catch a taxi to the airport for a flight from Pisa to Milan at 6.55am only to have that flight cancelled for the second time. From there a bus http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-238400.html Can't believe how long since the last blog.1st thing is rest of journey with motor uneventful except for trying to get through Romania.heavy fog and poor roads conspired to make an o'nite necessary as I chose to follow main road rather than go to Vidin.Never again will I use Ruse crossing. Arriving back in Bulgaria I was immediately aware that fog was still persisting and that they had had heavy s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Boyana/blog-236731.html AwoHa het Sofiaans dialect zou me een goede 15 jaar geleden op het lijf geschreven zijn. Waarom Wel in deze regionale aftakking van het Bulgaars verbasterd men de 'l' tot een 'w' en ware het niet dat ik tot mijn zesde levensjaar de 'l' niet kon uitspreken en die surprise surprise uitsprak als een 'w'. M'n klasgenootje Lily werd Wiwy enzoverder. Dit echter volledig terzijde. Voor verdere inf http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-233081.html Where luxury meets nature...updates will follow http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/blog-231468.html Hello helloSo Bulgaria was an incredible experience... but a bit of a weird one Imagine John and I arrived in Sophia and had arranged to stay with Sava the couch surfer we were going to stay with a week or so prior but ended up canceling on the last second when we decided to blast through to Turkey instead of pausing in Bulgaria. So we met sava and Sava's incredible grandma and sett http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/blog-229103.html Waarde landkenoten et les hollandais aussiWat ik me net bedacht heb is dat ik eigenlijk nog helemaal niet verteld heb hoe Sofia zelf eigenlijk is. Voor de een is het mischien een magisch sprookjes land voor de ander een storthoop een enkeling denkt mischien dat het de godin van de wijsheid is waarin ik kampeer. Eigenlijk zouden deze drie fictieve personen een ander en enkeling louter als bee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-228539.html Waarde ParochianenDe eerste zin is altijd de lastigste dus maak ik me er op deze manier even snel vanaf. Er zijn echt veel gekke dingen gebeurd hier in Bulgarije sinds de laatste keer dat ik jullie verblijdt heb met een stukje non fictie proza. Een goeie week geleden waren we met de hele Erasmus crew op een drum'n bass feestje in Sofia. Op een gegeven moment kwam Emil erg enthousiast in m'n oor s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-221025.html Woke up the next day about a half hour out of Sofia. We packed our things and I threw on some extra layers thank god.The weather was... how to describe it... Imagine any movie you've ever seen about Eastern Europe. Yeah it's like that. Overcast and dark at one in the afternoon. It seemed as if the clouds weren't blocking out the sun but holding down last night's darkness trying to prevent it' http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-220962.html We actually made it upstairs for breakfast this morning and we were completely right about it. We weren't even told whatwhere it was we had to ask for it. It was a little pastry each filled with cream cheese. Seriously what is wrong with cereal and toastWe chatted to the Iranian guy Ally for a while and an irritating woman kept on butting into the conversation with banarl comments. We learned http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-220413.html We both slept beautifully which was probably in large part due to having a proper mattress for the first time in ages. Again we abandoned breakfast for an extra hour in bed. It may sound like are being lazy but we really are ever so tired. Also breakfasts are utterly disappointing in most hostels and not worth the effort we expend getting to them. We dressed and just as we were about to leave I sa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-219719.html The alarm went off at twelve and we both woke up rather reluctantly. We packed our things and tried our best to separate the clothes which stank of smoke from last night. After leaving our room we walked over to the main hostel and chatted to people whilst stealing all their music to put on our pda. We struggled to find an available hostel for Sofia. So many people have told us to stay at Hostel M http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-219718.html We were woken suddenly by the lights being turned on inside the bus. It was five thirty so an hour earlier than we were supposed to arrive in Plovdiv. We asked the steward if this was our stop and she nodded so we jumped off. We just got our bags and the coach drove off leaving us at a station without a name. My instructions from Hikers hostel said to get bus no. 720 from the right of the station http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/South/Plovdiv/blog-219717.html On way home wind got up to storm force rocking van then joined by snowsleet.So much for getting home before the men left However on way to Krumevo after negotiating awful traffic jams I was being flagged down by van in front with hazards on.Katastroph was all he was saying and though he didn't recognise me I reckonised him as deputy foreman and realised that van was worker's on way to pick up a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Boyana/blog-217151.html Well now guess have a new tutor and today was reasonably productive.Builders going on OK but am glad that I have till Fri to assimilate new vocab.More egs of akward way text is set out.About 4 classes ago learnt left was' lyavo'phonicsturn left otlyavo no today I found to goturn left is nalyavo Very confusing and unsettling.Really could do with a text written from an English speaking p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Boyana/blog-217102.html Well bath was delivered as planned and lesson went ok despite lack of managing to revise the verbs in the vocab.Then found that tutor would be away for 8 days but hopefully ring today and check if he was in. Went to office to let them know and he and staff agreed that rather than wait I should go on Weds and fri for tutor with standin.Reluctantly agreed having thought I would have all the time to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/East/Varna/blog-217047.html ....and one still won't eat his veggiesWoohoo Third Intrepid tour in a row I'm quite the adventurer now aren't I This last tour was through Eastern Europe crossing four countries and only on one continent this time. I tell you what though Budapest was a bit of a shock after six weeks in the Middle East. It's definitely Eastern Europe it's more industrial a bit less colourful and a bit coo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/South/Plovdiv/blog-216802.html With bags packed we headed down to breakfast. It again consisted of dry bread and stopping Darko from hitting food from our hands. After forcing as much down as possible free is free after all macs adhorned we went to try the bus station yet again.We encountered much the same problem as the day before no one in the ticket office for the Istanbul buses. Fortunately our luck changed and someone w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/North/Veliko-Tarnovo/blog-215860.html Hey lieve kinders Wederom een aflevering van pieter in Bulgarije. Allereerst ik heb voor de eerste keer onderwijs gehad Ik ben dus nu officieel student in bulgarije. Onderwijs bestaat blijkbaar uit een praatje met je professor in haar bureautje met nog 2 andere erasmus studenten erbij het lijkt op een soort priv les. De courses die ik volg zijn speciaal voor ons ontworpen en mijn examen besta http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/West/Sofia/blog-215771.html Anne and I are back from our trip to Bulgaria. In fact we have been back for a while now and as some of you know I have been somewhat lax in updating the Blog. Bulgaria is a great country and I would highly recommend anyone passing by to stop for a while. Ideally you should 'stop by' via aircraft. Under all circumstances avoid our route across the TurkeyBulgaria border. Whether by train or b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bulgaria/North/Veliko-Tarnovo/blog-215660.html