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Bulgaria: Now reached Greece

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Yesteday we travelled to Melnik, officialy the smallest town in Bulgaria with a population of only 240. We tasted the local wines in wine cellars, and walked around, visitied another monistary and just chilled. We met the first person speaking fluent english, a girl, just 12 years old. She hijacked us at the bus stop, and offered us a nice room with breakfast included for only 15 leva, times four and you have that in Norwegian. Read more about Melnik here http://www.motoroads.com/city-bulgaria-melnik.html

This morning we left Melnik, heading for Sandanski and then bus to Thessaloniki. On the bus station in Sandanski we ran in to Carlos from Spain. He has now showed us the way to a cheap hostel, to cheap in fact, we want better quality 🙂

Tomorrow we will head for the beach, we need desperatly to get some tan!!!

Bulgaria: Greeting from Blagovegrad

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At first, theres a hell of a lot mosquitos here in Bulgaria. Both me and Espen have got at least 40 bites. I hate mosquitos!!!

Another difficulty with travelling here in Bulgaria is that when a Bulgarian confirmes something, instead of nodding (?) his head like we Norwegians would do, he will shake it to confirm, and the opposite if saying no. So when I asked the bus driver yesterday if the bus went to Dupnitsa we almost missed it, since he shaked his head. Luckily he said “da, da” as well.

Now we are in a town called Blagovegrad. Not much to see here, but by far the most western stylish city so far. A lot of cafes, walking streets, and quite nice as well. But why the University is called the American University beats us, because not many speaks english…but we manage!

Bulgaria: To the summit of Musala

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We have now been in Borovets for two days. Came from Sofia yesteday by public transport, paid a total of 25 NOK for a 1 1/2 hour bus drive. We are now staying at the Alpin Hotel in Borovets where Kjetil Andre Aamodt has been as well. We have the whole hotel just by our self, quite cool!

Today we walked up to the summit of Mt. Musala, 2925 meters high, Bulgarias highest peak. We had all the weather you could imagine, almost snow, rain, fog, sun. At the end of the day we got to ride with one of the guys working at the ski resort in his car…down the slopes!!! We have some awesome pictures!!!

The weather sucks bigtime, so now we are changing our plans. We will plan this evening when eating dinner where to go. Originaly we planned to go hiking in the mountains for three days, but no! We don’t want to suffer!!!

You might read some stuff about Borovets here http://www.travel-bulgaria.com/content/borovets.shtml and http://www.borovets-bg.com

Bulgaria: First day of vacation

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Our first day of the vacation is over. Spent the first night sleeping for 12 hours. Today we have been walking all around the center of Sofia, covering in one the what Lonely Planet recommend for a 4 day stay :-). Sofia is all other than beautiful, not worth spending money traveling to with your girlfriend, but hopefully it will be better when we get to know this city better. Afterwards we will go out to eat and then go to bed early, since we will get up early tomorrow to go hiking.

By the way, the Lonely Planet book is not thrustworthy when it comes to the map of Sofia, it need’s to be updated. And the guy from Slovenia who we share room with, he snorzes!!!

Wan Hu – the first ever astronaut

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Or at least, the first guy trying…

…He had a chair built with forty-seven rockets attached. On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were gone. He was never seen again…

…like the part “…he was never seen again…” LOL! Read it all here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

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