a day out with fellow travellers
I've remarked already that one of the things I've learned about travelling is how my interactions with fellow travellers can be just as enjoyable as my visits to see new sights. So I was very happy when these two elements came together for a day in Bulgaria when a Polish lady staying in my dorm decided to hire a car for a day and invited three of us to join her. The pic above was taken at our first stop, the Sokolski Monastery, which featured the usual colourful frescoes around and inside the chapel, then we visited the Dryanovo Monastery, and then Etar, a traditional (and very pretty) village. After this came the main stop of the day for me - the Buzludzha Monument. This was built over the years 1974 to 1981 by some 6,000 workers (mostly military) and financed by public donations, on the site of the final battle, in 1868, between Bulgarian rebels and the Ottoman Empire. Then in 1891 a group of socialists assembled here to form the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, wh...