Weekend in Bulgaria with my dad
My dad and I decided to spend a weekend (4 days, actually, we had) in Bulgaria - of all places. It's a bit unclear why we
chose Bulgaria (god works in mysterious ways, I guess).
So it was a lot of fun. We saw some nice buildings and many churches, took a car for a couple of days (to see Plovidv, Stob and Rila), saw
some old towns and small villages, and got some good east-europe vibes. There's a nice ski resort just 10 minutes from the center
of Sofia, and I had a great day of skiing.
The bad parts? The Bulgarian food is not the best… especially if you are a semi-vegan. I had to eat cheese a bit, but I
survived. After a couple of tries, we decided to stop going to 'Bulgarian' places, settled on a nice Irish pub, and we also
found a good Italian restaurant. Bulgaria is not a tourist country, with very little infrastructure. Kiev was a lot
prettier, and Budapest also. The countryside is very shabby and poor
looking, but the landscape is quite nice (although it was really foggy most of the time).
Trip outline
Page 1 [Sofia] - Page 2 [Sofia & Vitosha Ski]
- Page 3 [Plovdiv & Stob] - Page 4 [Rila]
Sofia
Sofia - a good bleak east-european city. Lot's of churches and big buildings, and some nice statues. We stayed in the Sas-Radisson
hotel, in the old city center, with all things to see within 5 minutes on foot. So here are the national assembly house, Levski's monument
(Levski fought for independence from the turks, back in 1830 or something like that, and was killed by them). The third photo is the awful 1300 years of Bulgaria monument.
Next is the opera house, and a couple of statues from around the city -
The churches were rather nice. We saw about 10 of them. The first one here is Alex Nevski's church. I made a photo to the inside of one of the
churches, can't remember which one. Then there is the small but beautiful Russian church. The synagogue was closed, but it's there allright.
Markets are always fun, although they weren't so cool in Sofia. Still there was an open market (a long street with many
stalls) and an in-house market (Halita). Obviously there's the mandatory vegetable photo, dedicated to Ronit (fruit, vegetable, all the same).
