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June 7th 2006

Published: July 28th 2006

I spent a very lazy couple of months in Bulgaria in the company of my family and old friends, lounging about and enjoying the simple pleasures in life. It was very gratifying. I soaked up some new stories of what I've missed out on in the past 5 years. Also soaked up some old and forgotten memories, visited the attic upstairs and found some old toys of mine, looked through a collection of old reco... Read Full Entry

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ZoeMal

Aussie-bulgarian travelling the world... currently homeless and jobless, but loving every minute of it! Join me for a few highlights Round-The-World... Hope to inspire you to get off your bums and visit me somewhere out there. Every day is a new adventure!........ ........."It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't kick your feet... there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." Bilbo Baggins (Tolkin, 'The Fellowship of the Ring')...... P.S .... I didn't kick my feet when I left home. woops! ... full info

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At the Black Sea... Take One

Our hotel got flooded.

At the Black Sea... Take Two

...we had to move to a new hotel, this time Iveta chose a 5-star one... lucky me.

Cacao beach.... Rescue mission

Lifeguard carrying Vladi, Iveta's kid, due to a river crossing the beach... she was too scared to go across... so he came through for the rescue.

Nesebar, the old town

Alexandr Nevski, cathedral

In the centre of Sofia city, our most beloved cathedral.

Alexandr Nevski, detail

Alexander Nevski, detail 02

The old Communist Party quarters

The Yellow Pavers...

...all Bulgarians know them well. Sofia's city centre is entirely covered with them, stretching from the old Communist Party Quarters to every other civic building in the vicinity...These streets were once lined with people marching in the Communist days... in support of the regime, then again the same streets were filled with millions revolting against the regime in the years coming up to 1989 collapse of the system. I was there too, on the shoulders of my mum, shouting out for freedom.