I had a plane ticket to Rome yesterday, but I decided to stay in Bulgaria! I had been second guessing myself about Rome for a while, especially after having such a fantastic time at Elly and danchos. I just really didn't want to leave Bulgaria quite yet, especially to go to such an touristy, expensive place. So as I was stressing over decision making, I got a workaway message from a woman who lives in a small village in south eastern europe called ovchi kladenets. She wanted me to help her plan a Halloween party! So I decided, after much stress, that I would cancel my Italy trip (didn't get the 92 euros back for my plane ticket) and leave Sofia. But first, I stayed in Sofia with Adelaide and Elisabeth again, which was great. Arriving from veliko turnovo (which is the coolest city in Bulgaria) I felt very giddy because I suddenly processed that I was about to hang out with my sister in Bulgaria. So bizarre and cool. It was very exciting, so exciting that we some how locked ourselves out of the apartment and into the apartment building. It ended up being a not so great night of homelessness, but our friend, who we met in varna and now lives in Sofia, let us stay with him. So that was nice, but then we spent the whole day not really knowing how we would get back in. Finally hired a lock smith to break in and all was well. Then had a mini family reunion with simmi, Alex, bambi and milen. It was so great! And so unexpected! We are all in Sofia for independant reasons. We hung out with them four nights in a row, each night later than the last. I'll admit I was the first to pass out every time. The other night I stole a blanket off the back of an outside restaurant in my sleep. Simmi tried to stop me but I guess he just couldn't. So it was all fun, especially elisabeth's birthday in the tavern that is only lit with candles.
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Adelaide
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Elisabeth and I also got an article written about us when we went on the free Sofia tour. I talked to the guide quite a bit and ended up telling him about our family history. He was really excited about it and asked to write an article:
http://freesofiatour.com/blog/exciting-guests-at-free-sofia-tour
So that was pretty cool, but I'm not really that big of a fan of Sofia, from my few short visits there. Too flat and city like. So instead of waiting for my arrival date to the farm in ovchi kladenets, I dragged Elisabeth to Plovdiv to stay in a hostel and visit the second largest city in Bulgaria . It was pouring rain, the worst weather I'd seen in Bulgaria yet, but it cleared up in time for us to see the sun set over the beautiful old town of Plovdiv. Our friend, christian, who I met in veliko turnovo, was staying in a hostel close by so we hung out with him the whole night, before his night train to istanbuil. The hostel we found while walking on the rainy streets of the old town is called the hiker's hostel and it is quite a unique place. As we were heading out for a walk the owners held up a 10 liter bottle of home made rakia for later. We had a fun hang out with everyone from the hostel that night. Elisabeth and I sang Bulgarian songs and ukulele songs and drank rakia with everyone. Woke up this morning to this lovely view from our room:
Excited to explore today.
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