Plovdiv – Day 2

This might be a shorter, more to the point missive tonight. Firstly, I keep remembering things I want to tell you and have forgotten.

1. My room in this hotel is on floor -2. i.e. not above ground and there are no windows. It feels as if I am in Coober Pedy and is a weird feeling. No light at all, not idea what the weather looks like in the morning and every now and again I feel like panicking!!
2. the weather has improved vastly in the last couple of days and the sun is shining again. Not hot but nicely autumnal.
3. Bulgaria has to be the cheapest country I’ve travelled in for many a year. I can’t believe how cheap it is. Not accommodation but meals, coffee, wine etc are just so cheap!

So, that is the leftovers, now to today. Just really walked all over Plovdiv, again got to know it like all these cities, it takes a day or two but you soon get a handle on it. Ate a lot today as I wandered around!! Visited the unique Plovdiv houses, the museums that were open (Monday is Museum free day in both Turkey and Bulgaria)…really a gorgeous town.

My ticket to Veliko Turnova for tomorrow has been the saga I expected. When I asked the manager of the hotel about it this morning he had clearly forgotten, as expected. But assured me he would get it!

Got back from my wanderings this afternoon and there was a problem..it was at a different bus station (which I knew) and he hadn’t been able to get it but his friend was going to get it tonight. Well I now have a skimpy bit of paper that is apparently my bus ticket though you wouldn’t know it!!

Oh well we’ll see how things go tomorrow, Hopefully I’ll get there!!

Taxi at 8 in the morning…wish me luck!

More tomorrow!!