Bulgaria. Sofia

Our plane took off from Riga airport at 11:40 on 10th of March. In Kiev we had 55 minutes to change flights and were a little bit misled by absent signs. But proper gate was found in the end and we continued our travel above the clouds.



Couchsurfing friend Cvetan waited us in the airport of Sofia and took us to his flat.



Cvetan's home is full of books in Bulgarian, English and Russian. He speeaks good Russian and we used this language for communication. On arrival day we stayed in Cvetan's flat, drunk tea and some rakiya and talked.
Next day Cvetan showed us Sofia.
"It is monument of Rusian Tsar-Liberator Alexander the Second" - All Bulgarians remember that in 19th centuary Russians brought freedom after Turkish occupation.
"And that is monument of liberators. But nobody knows what kind of freedom they brought to Bulgaria." It was monument of Soviet soldiers. "Bulgaria was not occupied by Germany. Rather we can say Bulgaria was occupied by communists after World War 2."







Afernoon we hiked Vitosha - mountain near and above Sofia. And in his 72 Cvetan led us all the way up and down.






Next day, 12th of march, we left Bulgaria for Macedonia. Live and road goes on :-))) !