Our usual attempts at getting out the door early were only somewhat successful. Though a wet tent didn’t slow us down, the hotel’s self serve breakfast certainly did (we really struggled to figure out what exactly we were supposed to eat) but we finally got out the door and headed for the bridge across the […]
Considering the sizable slope we’d pitched our tent on, and notwithstanding the fact that we were hiding out in someone’s field, we got a decent amount of sleep. We intended to head out with first light, however, we woke to the sound of yet another a morning thunderstorm. Antsy to get out of the field and onto […]
The last little while has been an odd change of pace for us. With all the hostels and trains we’ve been using, we’ve felt more like backpackers than cycle tourists. It has been really fun to be among so many other like-minded people, making new friends and enjoying novelties like an indoor common area and […]
More rain tapped on our tent as we slept, keeping at it into the morning. We waved off our new friends and joined up in the common room, listening to everyone try to make their plans for the day. Despite the fact that lots of us were planning to move on to somewhere new, almost […]
Though adjusting to cycle touring has been so much easier this round, the last few days have still found me feeling reluctance about what we’re doing. I get tired of never being able to order anything or ask anyone a question without playing charades or looking like a complete idiot because I don’t speak the […]
We were among the first people awake at the hostel this morning, almost surely thanks to the fact that we were some of the first to bed (at 12:30, which is ridiculously late for us!) We ate breakfast and then headed back out for a bit more city touring. We’d been told that a street […]
Yet another Sunday and we woke up to no groceries, so we ate heartily at our guesthouse before heading back down the hill to the train station. We arrived by 10:45 to the wrong side of the station. A brief debate ensued, were we going to get fined for rolling our bikes over all the […]
We decided last night to stay in Melnik another day to give us time to actually see the town and to hike to the nearby Rozhen Monestary. Though the place is accessible by road, we decided to walk there on the canyon trail, giving us a change of activity and scenery. We ate a lovely […]
In this odd hot springs campground of ours, a big growling German shepherd guards the what was possibly the grossest bathroom I’ve ever used.. We packed up camp quickly this morning, but I stalled a long while, trying to delay getting my face bitten off just for the chance to use the icky facilities. In […]
The remnants of the storm dramatically lights the valley leading up to the border and we hardly get anywhere because we keep stopping to try to capture it all on camera. During one such stop, a car rolls by to ask us if we need any help and, once assured that we were ok, asks […]