City walking tour

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Geo: 42.6976, 23.3222

After breakfast we met our city tour leader Nona and drove in the centre of the city. We walked around and had an informative tour about this city. Saw the statue of St Sofia and an old round Roman church of St George, which is the only building from the 4th century that has not been destroyed. Saw guards in front of the presidential palace and changed while we were there. Sofia is joining the EU and has a countdown clock, they only have 247 days to go. As we walked down the street, four people walked past us and one of them was Martina Hingis, apparently she's Bulgarian.
Went into the Alexander Nevski cathedral, which is suppose to be the largest cathedral in the Balkans. Was quite beautiful inside. Had the rest of the afternoon free. We had lunch at an Italian restaurant and the food and drinks here are really cheap. Then are girls do, we went shopping. It is really cold and windy here, glad to be in a hotel room.
After dinner there was a wodka party in room 1315, turned out to be a few drinks and lots of girly conversation.

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Photos

01 Our hotel
This is our hotel in Sofia and my room was on the 14th floor

02 St George
The outside of St George

03 Ruins
Old Roman ruins in front of the church

04 Changing of the guards
We saw the changing of the guards in front of the presidential palace

05 Centre of town
This is a statue of St Sofia and all the flags are up because the previous day there was a NATO meeting here

06 Countdown
The Bulgarians have a countdown clock to how many more days to go until they join the European Union

07 Celebrity spotting
Martina Hingis and friends crossing the road after walking past us

08 Oldies
Cute old couple with the cathedral in the background

09 Cathedral
Side view of the cathedral

10 Mosaics
Mosaics at the entrance of the cathedral

11 Local ladies
Some locals snag for us in traditional costume outside of the cathedral

12 A masterpiece
Yummy looking ice-cream

13 The golden arches
Romanian way of spelling McDonalds

14 Bulgarian mafia
Local trams in the middle and model lucky to be alive on the left. She went out with the boss of the Romanian mafia, they were both shot in the head, he died and she survived and is still modelling

15 Front view
Front view of the cathedral