Bus trip took 12 hours, but was 1h 20 late starting ie. after midnight, oh joy!
Sun rose while we waited going through border control Croatia into Serbia. Amazing number of trucks and families travelling at night.
We are doing this blogging at cafe during nice meal, wifi additional! But any photos taken during day are on camera not iPad, don't have connector here so only one photo today. Sipping coffee, watching soccer, beside roman ruins. Actually there are current huge diggings all over the city, bit like Chch but we aren't sure what for. Robyn's turn to write after the one photo!
Diggings include a new underground railway system, whose rolling stock looks better than auckland's Chinese carriages. Population of Sofia about 3 million. Bus trip was nzd50 per person for 12hr trip and lots of buses departed in the evening, for Munich, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Rome,etc.,all full. En route we were mostly in rural area growing corn,sunflowers, with a few cows but occasional groups of goats being babysat by woman doing here knitting. Did see some storks no doubt gorging on the corn.
Had a funny situation on arrival at Sofia, to make up time the driver took a short cut (or followed his gps) along a 4 wheel drive track for about 5 Km, full of big pot holes and deep dirty brown water, nearly broke his axle but may have saved about 20kms thru lights, etc. around back of beyond broken down deserted premises. Weird!
Now at a 3 star. Hotel in convenient location, includes breakfast, and includes a real Finnish sauna - nzd55 for 2 people. Looking forward to seeing NZ team tomorrow.
Seen a bit of city, some big important buildings and lots of really delapitated areas and big grey high rise flats etc.
Sounds a bit like the Turkey night bus, Robyn. Snow in South Island. We are loving the blog. D & J
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