Good morning and welcome to another beautiful day. Today is pick up car rental day.
Let's go grab a taxi gotta go to the airport to pick up my rental car then
I'm gonna escape the city of Sofia and take you to Plovdiv
Okay paperwork complete, key to a car key to a car key let's go find our car
okay now I've rented through Hertz
and pick up at Sofia Airport terminal 2
All I have to do is find the red car
there's only one red car press the button
that's it the
squeaky one
here's our car
welcome to our roadtrip Bulgaria
Greetings and made it to Plovdiv, a nice easy journey it's actually only an hour and a
half drive from Sofia to Plovdiv
found my accommodation
got the keys
now let's
show you around it's on the first floor and where's the light? There we go
and here we go
let's get the key the right way aroun,d let's go in
and show you around
so first of all there's a nice lounge area nice Airy
windows TV there's Wi-Fi here as well
and round this side is the kitchen fully
equipped pots pans plates coffee machine
fridge hot plate
and a place to
eat and or work there's also a few books and games
maps and there's also a map of the city they've
left for me which is great
dining room
the entrance hall that is a washing
machine
then there's a bedroom
a big bed and I believe the sofa couch in the
lounge can also pull out and sleep two as well
and then you've got this big
double bedroom here
nice and simple nice big bed aircon unit
and a wardrobe
nice and
easy and then at the end
is the bathroom
again toilet and a bidet
sink
that basin hot water on a boiler
towels and everything provided
looking nice, it's very clean spic-and-span located just across the river from the
main center of Plovdiv so in a nice quiet area there'ss absolutely no noise outside
nothing at all but only a few minutes walk apparently from the town
so let's get those bags unpacked
and go and have a look around Plovdiv
Exploring Plovdiv, now I have walked across the river from my accommodation
into the town and I'm going up one of the hills to get some a nice views for
the sunset now found a sign which has got some instructions and some
directions in some information about the place but it's all in Bulgarian so no idea
what it says but I get the idea
We're, I think we're down in one of these
corners here somewhere
and we've gotta make our way up there
that's what's at the
top that's a bit of it so let's hopefully follow this path and
get to the top it's actually turned out into quite a beautiful evening it has been
quite sunny, quite rainy on the journey here and then it turned out sunny and
mixed cloud this evening so let's see what sort of sunset we get over Plovdiv this
evening oh this is nice hot as well 28 degrees it's nice to walk in the shade a
little bit well okay let's get hiking
I hope this is the right way I don't want to
wonder around and round and not go up. Hmm.
Well here we are on top of Liberation Hill a soviet-era monument overlooking Plovdiv
with fantastic views of the city and the mountain let me show you around I've got
a beautiful evening although it's looking a little cloudy over that side there's blue sky there's gonna
be a sunset
Good news at the end of my walk I found this description in English for us
Evening
well we haven't been long in Plovdiv but it's
been fantastic we went up to the viewpoint the monument had look around a walk
very nice came down saw the dancing fountains kids having great fun there
restaurant with some music playing and meals and drinks
apparently it's a bit expensive so now heading from there into the old quarter to see
if we can find something to eat and drink for the evening
Okay lovely full belly after delicious beef pepper steak and now wandering
through the old town and I've got lost and now I know it's not unusual for me
to be lost and a slightly more complicated problem I've run out of battery on
my phone so I don't have Google Maps so I've had to resort to asking people and
a good old-fashioned paper map
which fortunately I'm quite good at reading
now, the river is.....
it's got to be here somewhere
running out of
people to ask, I asked those people they've no idea
the thing is um you know I sort of
like know vaguely where should go on the map I don't know where I am on the map
and and it's difficult to ask people where to go because they "where would you
like to go?" they say, "well I'd like to go home" and "where's home?" that's like um "I
don't really know" and I've got can't access my phone so I can't see the
street name or address and I'm in a place called the trap how convenient
I've been trapped in the trap and everything's closed well pretty much
everything closed I think if I walk down this way I will find the river when I
find the river I'll know where I am so I'm not technically that loss just a
little confused just it doesn't look like there's a river over there does it?
Well I haven't found the way home yet haven't even found where I'm on the map but I
did get distracted once again because look what I found in the dark some sort
of statue lit up and kid on a scooter board thing anyway have a look at this
like a look at that
okay enough of the distractions pretty though they are I somebody told me the
river is behind here so that means I was gonna walk along here until I find a
bridge turn right go over the bridge and hope something looks familiar in the dark
I found it
except which door is it?
I think it's this one
he says he's found it and then he went to the car park okay
good news this is it
I'm fairly sure this is it
all I need to do is make the key work
yes
oh no, yes, yes, I'm in
thank goodness