8th July
Three hour bus trip through the mountains to our next destination. We travelled through narrow roads and on one bend came across a head on collision (the drivers here seem to feel that a blind bend is a good place to overtake!). Luckily one the cars seem to have suffered. We also passed many fields of sunflowers.
The city we are in is Plovdiv - one of the oldest cities in the world. There are numerous Roman ruins here. It’s so much hotter, in the 30‘s, and walking on really rough cobblestones is tiring. They are renovating many of the old houses and there is a law which states that they have look the same as the originally would have looked. You can really see the Ottoman influence here.
Did a lot of people watching. A large group protesting about the government went by but it was all very peaceful apart from the noise they were making with drums and whistles.
Am now trying to pass the day until we catch the night bus into Istanbul. I should have enough time to rush around the grand bazaar before catching the plane home. I arrived very late Thursday night!
Three hour bus trip through the mountains to our next destination. We travelled through narrow roads and on one bend came across a head on collision (the drivers here seem to feel that a blind bend is a good place to overtake!). Luckily one the cars seem to have suffered. We also passed many fields of sunflowers.
The city we are in is Plovdiv - one of the oldest cities in the world. There are numerous Roman ruins here. It’s so much hotter, in the 30‘s, and walking on really rough cobblestones is tiring. They are renovating many of the old houses and there is a law which states that they have look the same as the originally would have looked. You can really see the Ottoman influence here.
Did a lot of people watching. A large group protesting about the government went by but it was all very peaceful apart from the noise they were making with drums and whistles.
Am now trying to pass the day until we catch the night bus into Istanbul. I should have enough time to rush around the grand bazaar before catching the plane home. I arrived very late Thursday night!
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