Week of 6-23 Sunday After Club Yalta on Saturday night, getting up was more difficult than during the monotonous days of the week.Dale slept in while I was tempted by an offer of coffee across the street from the Russian Church, which we had visited earlier.Illiyana, our local tour guide, has coffee there every Sunday after church.Onda, the coffee shop, had expensive coffee and snacks, due to its proximity to the "touristy" part of Sofia.The coffee w...

Week of 6-16 On Sunday we didn't do much.We did decide to go to the theater located in one of the new malls.It was kind of expensive for Bulgarian standards.Tickets were about $5.We saw Pirates of the Caribbean 3.It was a little out there but had enough action and plot to keep it enjoyable. Bush came to town on Monday and we got the day off because most of downtown was blocked off, making travel in the city difficult.Because we had the day off, and our trains p...

There's not much to say this week because we didn't do much except for Thursday night.On Thursday we went to a traditional Bulgarian restaurant.I guess traditional restaurants are usually touristy, but not this one. Diana and Iliyana, Ivan's wife and sister, had to read the menu to Dale and I because it was completely in Bulgarian.We weren't there long before the ban started warming up and the xoro, pronounced horo, line started up.Everyone holds hands and does t...

Well, we didn't do much today. It seems to rain everywhere we are. We booked our sleeping cars to Bucharest for 7:30 and finished dropping off our stuff with Angela. After getting lost in the train station...amazing the places we get lost, we found our train. Anyways we did meet another backpacker on the train from Alberta Canada. He has been in Europe for 2 months and will be here for another 3 or 4. He is young, only 21, but has seen a ton of stuff already. He ...

Wow what 12 hours of sleep will do when you have major jet lag!We woke up at about 6 this morning and started the day right with a free breakfast and coffee.After getting our bearings we decided to go out and explore.Our first stop was the hostel we booked earlier in the morning.This was also centrally located and allowed us to hop on over to the sights of Sofia.As we walked we were able to pick up little treats and bottled water.Most water is .75 lev which is ab...