Honeymoon Sofia

Sorry this is coming in bits and spurts. Most of my life is job hunting right now so this is a secondary application.

We got off the train and found our hostel (Internet Hostel) in a big rainstorm. Needless to say after 14 hours of train and 7 hours of travel before that and getting all wet in a former Soviet Republic with crazy sidewalks; I was not in the best mood. But we grabbed a shower and a change of clothes and some veggie lunch and some Duncan Donuts (super hot) coffee and everything was looking up.

We went a wandering and found this nice mosque in a beautiful park across from a old bathhouse they are restoring.

This is the side of the bathhouse. In the picture above Ryan would be facing the Bathhouse.

And then wandered up and over past a huge synagogue, a main square and this MJ shrine.

Which was near the national theatre which was showing Cyrano de Bergerac. (we didn't go)

And then on to a huge park I didn't take pictures of that had a large monument in the middle to the Soviet Union. At least we think that is what it was, the Bulgarian's had put up scaffolding and set up large billboards to surround the old monument so that you couldn't see it.

Finally we were hungry for dinner so we found a Moroccan restaurant that had been noted on the board at the hostel. We thought we ordered a main dish that came with 4 side dishes each so we made sure to tell our waitress which "mezzos" we wanted to come with the main. We ended up with 9 full size mezzos AND of mains with smaller mezzos on the side. All in all a TABLE FULL of food. It was overkill. It was delicious. Luckily with the exchange rate on our side (for once) it was cheap and we took the leftovers home for the next day.

All in all an ok day in Bulgaria.