Challenges Ordering a Drink ...

... luckily for me, Kamenitza is a damn fine beer and readily available everywhere. Cocktails here were about $5 CAD each, stupidly-expensive for Bulgaria. But it was all worth it because, as one of the Brit girls from the hostel noted, our waitress looked exactly like Nina Dobrev, who is originally from Bulgaria, but with light-coloured hair. No complaints from me! Plovdiv is renowned as having the most beautiful women in all of Bulgaria, which I can confirm. Again, no complaints from me!

Da, Da, Da ...

July 26th 2011
Geo: 42.15, 24.75Had what seemed like a very Bulgarian experience today - a bucolic drive through the Valley of the Roses, the centre of Bulgaria's rose-producing industry, where they are grown and then turned into a variety of products. Brandy, creams, jams, liqueurs, oils, perfumes, soaps, the variety is incredible and the region is responsible for 85% of the world's rose oil producti ... 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

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