Yesterday I arrived here in Veliko Tarnovo, in central Bulgaria, and I think I'm dying. Ok, maybe not literally, but the heat here is unbearable. This is going to be a short post, because it's past midnight and I'm sweating upstairs here...down in my bedroom, there's air conditioning, at least. (I'm not exaggerating either....it's about 40 degrees here in the day, and it only cools down a few degrees at night, excluding the radiating heat from the buildings)
Since I last posted, I visited Belgrade and was utterly frustrated in all my endeavours there. After a lot of walking around the city, I found the Contemporary Art Gallery in Novi Beograde, only to find out it closed in June indefinitely for renos...grr....more walking. Oh well, that's what I'm here for, I suppose...after a frustrating day (the national gallery was closed as well...), I gave up on the gallery-going, and chilled with an ice coffee and people-watched. It's probably what I should have been doing all along, anyway.
From Belgrade, I overnight trained it Sofiya, and that was an interesting experience. Started with a Bulgarian guy and I in my cabin, and everything was nice and quiet, with him speaking no English, and me no Bulgarian. Turned out he was the worst snorer I've ever heard in my life. Add that to the screaming kids next door, and the portuguese party on the other side, and I was thanking my lucky stars for my mp3 player...thanks mum!! Anyway, a few hours later, I wake up to one of the Portuguese people casing out the cabin. Turned out he wanted to sleep in the middle seat, as his friends were still partying....All was good until the bulgarian women got in in Nis at about 3am....there was non-stop chatter for ages. But hey, in the morning, they were feeding me chocolate biscuits and candies and chips...yum! =)
Anyway, I said I was going to keep this short....Sofiya was cool, with lots of wicked communist monuments (most were terribly built and are falling down, making them even better representations of the regime), but on the whole, not terribly impressive. It's really just a big city. I'll write more about it later....I'm off to bed.
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I saw today that 'Emergency Teams' had been deployed in Bulgaria to cope with the HIIIIGH temperatures! Yikes.
Stay hydrated, yo.
I thought 30C at midnight was bad!
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yeh, the train from Veliko Tarnovo to Bucharest was grooooosss. I was in a cabin with two cool polish guys who helped pass the time, but we were all dying (and making lots of bad jokes about the lack of air conditioning and the poor state of the toilet, but that's another story...) Bucharest is just as bad. I think it's 38C right now, and it's 8.30 at night. supposed to get to 45 here on monday. ugh. but don't worry - I'm drinking litres of water!
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