Eastern Europe Trip - Page 8 |
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traveled back to Sofia then on through Plovdiv and Kazanluk. I don't
have too many pictures of these towns but I do have special
memories. Each place in Bulgaria actually was more or less like
this. People would go entirely out of their way to help me, from the
people who took me to the train station in Sofia and made sure I got the
right ticket waited with me until I got on the train, to the guy that
after having walked me ten minutes to find a street gave me his name and
phone number in case I ran into any trouble, to the people at the
Ethnographic Museum in Kazanluk who opened a closed portion of the museum
just for me! Bulgaria is a special place. And if you go there
- don't muck it up.
The picture to the right is of Verliko Turnova - a walled ruin with a church on top. |
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 This
is the old Bulgarian 500 Leba which was devalued to about half a new Leba.
I think this is worth just about a quarter. |
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 From
Bulgaria, I raced back up to Prague to attend the New Year's
Celebration. It was just as crazy as I remembered but I was sick so
it wasn't as much fun as I had the last time. There were still lots
of fireworks and drinking and commeraderie. |
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 This
is the Bertramka residence where Mozart stayed and composed while in
Prague. The piano is one on which he actually played. |
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