First impressions of Plodiv, Bulgaria
May 8th, 2007
Update: Added some of todays pics to the Bulgaria set on Flickr
Stay tuned for the Fethiye to Olmpos Cruise updates. I am about half way through organising the photos and writing the update.
Sarah and I hae just jumped off the night train from Istanbul to Prodiv, Bulgaria which was a fairly pleasant experience. We had to pay and extra 36 TRY for a sleeper carriage on top of our Interrail Ticket; money well spent. I slept about 60% of the trip while Sarah managed to sneak a little more.
From what we have seen Bulgaria is a beatuiful place. We are situated in the middle of the old city and can see a fair bit of the landscape from our hostel.
Only had one bad experience so far which was a combination of being cheated and a lack of preperation/understanding on my behalf. Our Taxi ride from the Train station should have cost 3LV (Bulgarian Curreny) however it seemed the guy had a dodgey metre so the fair ended up being 20LV. I though the price was in Euro so I paid 20 Euro.
1 Euro = 2 LV so the taxi driver made an extra 37LV on top of the 3LV taxi ride. Guess I should have been more careful although I have beaten Bob and Joannes icecream experience in St Nicholas.
Off to explore Bulgarias old city now. Hope everyone is having a great time on holidays!
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