Fort At Veliko Tarnovo

Once You Are Here You Can Never Leave

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October 20th 2007
With our heater on, we were tricked into feeling warm and cozy in our room when outside it was actually cold and very wet. The thought of breakfast lured us out of bed and down into the common room. We did stop for a while to look out from the balcony onto the general sceney which was hidden in the dark last night. Breakfast was pretty poor but was made 100% better by Darko the hostel cat. He alte ... 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