A two hour drive from Sofia, is the Rila Monastery. It is situated 1,147 metres above sea level. This was another item that was on my wish list. I found a company called Balkan Trails and arranged this tour. We had limited time here only about an hour, as we had an afternoon flight. The monastery is named after it's founder,…
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We arrived late in Sofia, just enough time to see some of the beautiful buildings before the sun came down. We first came across this, the Monument to the Soviet Army. The monument is located on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, near Orlov Most and the Sofia University. We then headed towards the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, something I had been planning to visit for…
Hotel Downtown was a disappointment on many levels. We arrived at the airport, and I was expecting to be picked up. That was what I had paid for before we had left the UK. And this had worked fine in Hungary and Serbia, but the driver was not there. Two calls to the hotel and an hour later, we were then…
This is my first Travel Hack ! I had found this Eastern Europe trip in one of my many travel brochures and was quite interested. But I was not a fan of doing a coach trip for two weeks or the price involved. It would have come to nearly £3000+ and I know that we wanted to experience and see things at our own…