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Our travels since Bucharest

Posted by admin  |  Posted on 25-06-2010  |  6

Leaving a chaotic city of Bucharest our group got separated through the traffic and didn’t reunite until the border at Bulgaria which was lined heavily with trucks.

Once out of the city it was a sunny day and warm weather. The sunflower heads were open, the wheat has been harvested and we were still seeing gypsies yet not so many horse and carts. The small farmer still uses his horse and plow. At various truck stops, prostitution seems rampant with young girls walking back and forth trying to hire tricks. The countryside varied with it being flat to hilly and large mountains in the distance. Lunch was by the roadside with a feast of the local produce. The ride to Nesebar was a bit challenging as the GPS’s were not working so good. Carmen, Jason and Lauren were in the support vehicle and had observed a area which was called “the fields of rock” and were millions of years old.

When we were approaching Nesebar it was like we were coming into Walt Disney World with all the high rise buildings and new theme park type hotels such as Pirates of the Carribean, however our hotel was by the seaside in the medieval part of the city nestled alongside a fishing village. We shopped amongst the local merchants selling their wares from antiques to home made ice cream, clothing and souvenirs which was set amidst the ruins from Roman times. Leaving Nesebar Bulgaria we were headed toward Istanbul, Turkey

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