4th August We got up today and did the usual routine of washing, dressing and eating free breakfast. We bid our Argentinian friends farewell and left for the bus stop....the plan was to get a bus to Burgas and then another to Varna and then onto Ruse as this route run more frequently. Plus it would give us an extra site to see. The first part of the plan went off without a hitch the issues began when we got to Burgas station, we were sent back and forth between ...

We arranged to meet Maguel and Mercedes at their hostel at 9am, so we packed up as quietly as we could as the rest of the dorm was asleep. We stopped off for a costa coffee breakfast, ready for the drive. All for of us and our dwarf size backpacks managed to squeeze into the their hired vauxhall corsa. Kindly and luckily Mercedes left me sit in the front. Which was great because I get car sick pretty quickly. The drive over to Sozopol went really quickly. It was...

We didn't have the best sleep last night what with all the snoring, but I was looking forward to the all you could eat breakfast buffet...and it didn't disappoint! We checked out of the hostel and walked back the way we came yesterday to grab catch the bus to Plovdiv as neither of us fancied doing the 7/8 hour bus right to Sozopol today. We didn't have to wait long before we were off and having our daily coach nap, and for once the bus actually took the time stat...

I woke up with a jolt and realised we had pulled up at a station and everyone was getting ready to get off...we had arrived in Sofia....I actually didn't feel to good. Considering we had spent the last 8 hours curled up on the floor of a train! We began our walk to the hostel hoping we were heading in the right direction, 20 minutes later we walked through a metal door and we pleasantly surprised with the small oasis hostel mostal, it was in he centre of this bus...