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Svistov (artist quarter), Veliko Turnovo (ancient capital), and Arbanassi (16th cen. Village) Bulgaria   Today we’re still in Bulgaria, in Svistov which is just downriver from Ruse. . .  .not exactly a suburb but definitely a smaller town.  We’ll be traveling to the interior of Bulgaria, a fortress town called Veliko Turnovo and also visiting a small village called Arbanassi.  There are still little donkey carts on the roads and I finally managed to get a photo of on...

The last couple of days have been very lazy for me in anticipation of a busy next few months.  I walked about town, looking at the various shops and getting a little souvenir shopping done.  Yesterday all I did was buy my train ticket for tonight and then found a pretty park to read a book in.  This place just allows you to chill.  I did manage to catch the light show at the fortress the last couple of nights.  It is mesmerizing.  If enough older tourists pay the...

VT was fantastic too. We stayed in a hostel owned by an Englsih guy, and there was noone else staying those nights, so we had the place to ourselves! He lived there though with his Bulgarian girlfriend, who clearly didn't approve of us going out and getting very pissed with him and his British ex-pat friends! And then coming back tot he hostel with them all and making loads of noise, before passing out on the floor of the kitchen! (Not jsut me, his friends as well!) There was a sound...

I don't know whether to be excited, or scared.  On a train from Sofia to Gorna Orjahovica I was speaking with a Bulgarian girl who spoke excellent English (her mom teaches it), she told me that I was only the second American tourist she had ever met in Bulgaria.  She was a bit surprised that I would choose to travel in Bulgaria instead of another country, such as the U.S.  I guess I need something a bit more exotic, and that's just what I got.In Bulgaria the train station signs...

La ciudad real de Veliko Turnovo fue fundada en 1.185 y convertida en la capital del Segundo Reino Búlgaro (1187-1393). Geográficamente la ciudad esta situada sobre tres colinas rodeadas por el río Yantra. La colina Tsarevets es una fortaleza natural inaccesible donde se sitúo el palacio real, el Patriarcado y algunas iglesias. Tzarevetz fue el centro administrativo y cultural del Estado. Su parte central esta ocupada por el Palacio real. El complejo del palacio presenta una arqui...

We spent an incredible two months travelling by train and bus through Eastern Europe, from Berin southward to Athens. We've seen some incredible sights and met some awesome people. Eastern Europe rocks my socks.

In small town just outside the ancient capital of Veliko, I spot a actually family of gypsies living out of an old wooden trailer near the train tracks.  To my disblief, they also have an honest-to-goodness pet bear chained to a tree.  Life imitating art?  A dirty kid stares at me so rather than photo them, I hastly leave.  Their reputations are somewhat deserved in these parts.