Saturday, June 22, 2019

TRAVEL TO BULGARIA Summary

Bulgaria - hgighly recommended, cheap and cheerful. Sofia the capital is easy to walk around.


Useful Websites For Travel To Bulgaria
TRAVEL TO BULGARIA
Travel from Stansted to Sofia
ryanair.com

HOTELS
Budget
Central Point hotel boutique
Great location and cheap price.
Ground floor rooms, some have a walled patio. Our room 210 had a view over next door's lawned garden and the hotels's ground floor rooms' downstairs patios, our room quiet at night. Front rooms have a better view of the park and distant road but are noisy at night from revellers drinking around bars in the park.

SOFIA
WALKING TOURS / FREE TOURS
www.freesofiatour.com
www.365association.org
https://365association.org/tours/culture-tour/
ww.sofiagraffitittour.com
Free walking tour of the city in front of the Palais of Justice, but finishes outisde the Alexander Nevski Cathedral.

Churches and Cathedrals (free entry)
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

The national gallery in The Palace
Very dull. Reductions for the retired. Good shop.
ww.nationalgallery.bg

Next door is the Natural History Museum. which is excellent. Huge animals and tiny birds such as the teeny hoopoe with a needle like beak, and iridiscent stones in all colours, green, purple, blue, pink, from all over the world in amazing shapes from an almost invisable diamond to a knee high quartz - actually on a table so it was waist high when I was photographed beside it.


Wines:
Enjoywine
www.enjoywine.bg
Family owned shop specialising in Bulgarian wines offers tasting of three wines. Sells amusing birthday cards.

Synagogue
Entry 4 leva
www.sofiasynagogue.com

Shopping
Elephant Bookstore
31 Tsar Shishman Street,Sofia, Bulgaria.
Everything from Harry Potter to Alice and Wonderland, Freud and Einstein, books and mugs and cards and pictures and cards and umbrellas and masks.
wwwElephantBookstore.com

PLOVDIV
Pretty and historic, and centre of Bulgaria's top wine region.
You can visit it on a day trip from Sofia.

Plovdiv airport 'the South Gate of Bulgaria
www.

More later.
 Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

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