For our last day we thought we’d better take a look around Sofia. We had a street map with carparks on it the problem was it was all in Cyrillic. If I had been given the map at the start of the holiday there is no way I could have navigated us though the busy…
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Day 11 Dragizhevo to Iskar Dam
We left Dragizhevo with a bit of a heavy heart as the realisation that our holiday was coming to a close finally hit home and we needed to start heading back to Sofia. But on the way we wanted to have a look at the area around Lovech so made a slight detour north before…
Read moreDay 10 Exploring the area around Veliko Tarnovo
Today was spent exploring the area around Veliko Tarnovo and making notes on the various villages we passed though before heading back to the campsite. We still had no idea where we wanted to finally live but we had decided by this point that it would be north of the Stara Planina (Central Balkan mountains)…
Read moreDay 9 Plovdiv to Dragizhevo
After a comfortable nights sleep we decided to shower before setting off on our travels. We were a bit surprised to be given a key to one of the cabins near by, to use the shower there. There was a list of prices in the cabin and I was really taken a back on how…
Read moreDay 6 Rakovo to Malko Sharkovo
We had a free day before our next meeting in Elhovo, so decided to take a detour and so we did a loop via Nova Zargora. There was no reasoning behind our route other than there were some place names we’d heard of, and we wanted to have a look along the southern Balkan Mountain…
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Day 4 Byala to Palamartsa
After a very uncomfortable night in the car at the truck-stop we went to Polsko Kosovo to quiz Sue, our next unsuspecting ex-pat, on life in Bulgaria, where we saw the biggest grapes I had ever seen!! After some lovely home-made cake and plenty of coffee we headed to Palamartsa. By this time we really…
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Day 2 Belogradchik to Koprinka
What a nice surprise, we woke up to freshly made coffee courtesy of the campsite owner. Yep we were definitely no longer in the UK. Joe had a disturbed night’s sleep; he woke up to find something prickling his feet through the tent. He kicked it away, but it came back and started attacking his…
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Day 1: Sofia to Belogradchik
The plane dumped us at Sofia airport at some ungodly hour of the morning; the downside of budget flights I suppose! We’d expected to be able to recuperate with a coffee and a snack in the airport lounge before collecting our hire car, but everything was closed (we later discovered that there aren’t actually any…
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