For the first time yesterday Fay was unhappy. It was very hot, nearing 34 degrees and after cooling ourselves with an ice cream, we asked her to climb mountains! She huffed and puffed; remembering how I felt climbing up to the monument in Budapest in the heat, there was nothing for it but to put the heater on! Phew!! Both we and Fay we glad when she recovered on the descent.
Having made it to the boarder, we see an immediate change. Modern bridges and well made roads. For two miles at least! Then it becomes worse than Romania. Those near derelict houses we saw seemed luxury compared to the hovels being lived in here. Houses that were literally falling down, still used as dwellings. One woman living in an old container by the side of the road. The prostitutes are evident again, we didn't see any in the area of Romania we were in. Here though they just sat beside the road. And yet in this poor environment there were a good number of flashy cars. We have no idea were the Bulgarian Kensington is, we certainly didn't find it. In the big towns and cities there are blocks of the most awful flats. Given the choice of a flat or a container, I think the container was the better option.
We face a big challenge in this country. It is the first one we have reached which uses a different alphabet. Some of the signs are written in both familiar letters and in the native script but others are not. To me it just looks Russian, this doest help my map reading as the map I have is written in English, so I can't compare the shapes of the letters either. We manage to work out that the word for Sophia looks like Coop, so we continue on looking for signs to the Co Op!
This has been a tiring day. Time to park up. Tomorrow we will try to get to Plovdiv. To see a Roman ampi theatre, we ought to find something to look at in Bulgaria rather than just drive through. Then with any luck it will be main road or motorway to Turkey. Well, that's the theory?????
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