Rich made a quick trip to a pharmacy and got some meds, started feeling better and away we went. We walked to the big cathedral we saw yesterday, and got a bite to eat at a place nearby. The city guide bus pulled up as we were leaving the restaurant, and we were two of about 15 people on the bus for the tour. It was a different tour insofar as there was a live guide and we didn't have the option to get off and back on. Once you were on, you stayed for the entire...

Today's outing was to join a Free Sofia Tour. We've seen the free tours in other cities, but haven't ever done one. Our tour guide, Dino, was very knowledgeable and humorous at the same time. It made learning the history of Sofia a lot more enjoyable than just getting the facts. He was also easy on the eyes, which always makes it more fun. :)) The tour was supposed to be only in English, but a group of Italians showed up and insisted he do it in Italian as well...

What a long day we had yesterday. It began easily enough, with our driver picking us up right on time to take us to the train station. They don't serve food on the train, so we bought KFC (and yes, that's what you think it is) to take with us. The train arrived, we found our car/seats--we were in a car with seats that face each other, two and two. No one ever joined us, so we had the ability to put our feet up on the opposite seats, which made the long ride b...

Our first day in Sofia was spent recovering from the long train ride and late night getting to bed. We both slept late, 8:30 for me (can you believe!?), and I felt groggy most of the day. Once we were dressed, we decided to walk over to a mall that is about 10 minutes from us. It's enormous!! Not so much in acreage, but it is 6 levels--2 underground and 4 up! Pretty typical stores for a mall, including a movie theater with IMAX. Nothing is showing right now tha...

I began my day by coloring my hair. Normally, this wouldn't be newsworthy except that Europe doesn't carry my brand of hair dye, and the boxes I'd seen so far were all in a foreign language. Fortunately, I found a box of L'Oréal that was in English. It was in Romanian as well, but I was happy to be able to understand what to do since it was different than my normal stuff. Once the hair ordeal was over, we met up with our tour guide for the day, Elena. She was...