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We just returned from Bulgaria. It was actually a great weekend. Sofia is a good, bleak, east-europe type of city. It got the churches and statues, all right. I would have liked a few more soviet monuments, but you can’t have it all. There was a day of ski (good snow), and we also rented a car and travelled around for a bit - monasteries, old towns, small villages. These were the good parts.

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 nice 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).
But even so we had an interesting time, and a lot of fun.
Anyway, expect a lot of cool photos, and a long travelogue, but in the meantime, here are a few photos I’ve already uploaded -

Well, I’m off for a short trip in Sofia, Bulgaria. With my dad.

Why Bulgaria, you might ask? Well, god works in mysterious ways. I’m not entirely sure why, and I don’t think my father knows, either. But it should be fun - it’s an interesting town, there is a small ski resort nearby.

More when I return…