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Leaving Sofia

Posted by zandara | 2nd July 2008

Marin the driver dropped us off at the skyscraper of a hotel yesterday evening. My room on the 15th floor provides a great view of Sofia, a town of cobble stone streets, rumbling trams, girls bearing cleavage, naked tummies and bra straps. Also the archaeology museum boasting beautiful, gleaming solid gold vessels made by the Thracians 1000s of years ago.

I've gotten too used to the high life provided by my parents and am annoyed that the only English shows I can find on the 60 or so cable channels are CNN, a sports channel, and a ridiculous show about girls competing for the love of a dippy Italian boy. The mini bar fridge is stuffed so full I can barely squeeze in my bottles of water and a diet coke. The enormous window won't open. But I pause and think. There is no way I could have seen the Madara horseman, the tombs built 2500 years ago, Veliko T and the Black Sea as well as Plovdiv and Sofia and Rila Monastery in only 8 days without having a driver and I couldn't have a

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