Bulgarian Travels #3 - Sofia

This is the third and final installment in the Bulgarian Travels series (for now!). The previous posts can be found here and here.

So, at the end of our trip, the husband and I booked a little apartment for a few days in Sofia, Bulgaria's capital. The reason was two-fold: we wanted to have a little holiday and some relaxing time just the two of us, and it also coincided with our 1 year anniversary! Perfect timing :)
We are definite city sight-seers, and love cramming things in, but i hurt my foot a few days previously. This meant we had to take it a bit slower, but that was probably a good thing!
We are definite city sight-seers, and love cramming things in, but i hurt my foot a few days previously. This meant we had to take it a bit slower, but that was probably a good thing!

 Inside our little apartment

 Our apartment block

 Sveti Georgi - the oldest building in Sofia, built in the 4th Century 

 Ivan Vazov National Theatre

 Russian Church

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - easily the most iconic building in Sofia

 Amphitheatre - discovered when they were building a hotel... so they just built the hotel on top! It is a little hidden gem, and the hotels lets tourists wander round the remains for free!

 Have you read about the ongoing protests in Sofia? This was on Day 30, when it was noisy, but violence-free!

 Our anniversary meal - we chose Italian :)

 European Parliament

 Mount Vitosha, overshadowing Vitosha Boulevard

 Mineral Baths

 The fascinating Archeological Museum is located in an old Synagogue

Hope you've enjoyed reading about Bulgaria! It's such a beautiful country; well worth a visit!

Fran xx

Bulgarian Travels #2 - Plovdiv

The Bulgarian Travel posts are to share just a few snap shots of my time in Bulgaria over July. You can find the first post all about Ascenovgrad here.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city, is a 30 minute train ride from Ascenovgrad, so we visited a few times.

Amphitheatre

Ethnographic Museum in Plovdiv's Old Town

The Ancient Theatre

Modelling our FREE Nestea (iced tea). We were excited!

On our day off, we went Go Karting!

Believe it or not, this Ferrari is made out of Lego!

My first Bulgarian Doner experience. it was GOOD!

One of the rides at the Aqualand water park that we visited. Not 

sure this would pass saftey regs in the UK...

Come back next time for photos round Sofia!

Fran xx

Bulgarian Travels #1 - Ascenovgrad

Hello! So, as mentioned previously, I spent the first 2.5 weeks of July in Bulgaria, and i thought it might be nice to share a few photos of the (literally) hundreds that I took!

This post is all about Ascenovgrad (where we were based for the two weeks whilst working with a church and teaching English) and the surrounding area.

 Ascenovgrad

 Belintash

 We did tie-dying in class one morning, and the next day the young people showed up wearing them! 

 SO many stray cats ev-er-y-where!

 Chudnite Mostove - natural rock formations from underground rivers.

a few of my class one day!

 Warmed sweetcorn from a street seller - incredible concept

 Night Hike to Assen's Fortress

 There was A LOT of friendship braclet making that happened over those weeks!

Next time: photos from Plovdiv!

Fran xx

Wales, Ahoy!

Today, I am setting off on a two week trip to Wales.

I will be based in a tiny little fishing village called Abersoch, on the Llyn Peninsula.

It's a beautiful little part of the world, somewhere that I have been many times before.

Image Source

 I'm going to help run a Christian childrens camp, which I have done for many years.

Whilst I'm excited to go, it means spending two weeks away from my wonderful husband, who has an important academic conference to attend in another country, and other busy PhD things to do. It could be an interesting few weeks...

I'll be fairly internet-less (bar the odd snippet of phone internet) for those weeks, so have some scheduled posts lined up for whilst I'm away. I hope you enjoy them!

Fran xx