i bet Wayne that it's not, i bet him a thousand dollars.
right, but she didn't have a thousand dollars so i can't
get that money if i win.
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey.
Today we're in Bulgaria, Sofia, if you're new to the channel, this
is April and i'm Wayne. we do a video every
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So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey! what we doin April? we are
at Sofia's city center. right now we're walking around the
Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is built in the neo-byzantine style
and it's believed to be one of the top 50 largest christian churches
in the world. Nevsky cathedral (sorry if i'm not saying that correctly)
in Sofia occupies an area of 3170 square meters
and can hold 5000 people inside. wow, that's impressive. it is the third largest orthodox
cathedral in Southeastern Europe. get this, the church has 12 bells
with a total weight of 23 tons. and it's Christmas, wahoo!
Christmas Day in Bulgaria. you realize you haven't given me a sincere Merry
Christmas? what?! Merry Christmas! i can't believe
that!
we were just both sarcastic with each other. the sun is coming out
the sun is finally coming out. i hope it stays out
don't worry it'll go back behind those clouds in just a second. yeah it is
frigid. what do you think Wayne? it's chilly it's
a big old church. what you doing April? Freezing my phalanges
off. let's go find an adventure to get into
okay. come on we're gonna find something cool
Have you visited a different country on Christmas holiday? and if you have
tell us which country you visited and why you chose to spend Christmas in
that country...
as you can tell we really didn't put a whole lot of thought and planning into
today just because it was Christmas we figured
nothing was going to be open anyway so we figured we'd just walk around
old town Sofia. we're going to go try to find this Lion Bridge
it's like a 20-minute walk but we have nothing better to do anyway.
i love how the old buildings have statues built into them
and have lots of personality our buildings nowadays are just
boring.
Oompa Doompa Diddley-doo
I see an Oompa Loompa
behind me too. my friend Boyd he says April looks like
a oompa loompa in her little purple jacket
it keeps me warm most of the time. not so much in Bulgaria, struggling in
Bulgaria. Hey Wayne yes? did you ever think
you'd be roaming the streets of
Bulgaria-- no--on a Christmas day definitely not on a Christmas day, come on hurry up
with the most amazing woman in the world? what?! you heard me!
whatcha doin April?
are you taking a picture of some rocks? always taking a picture of rocks. but
look how cool this pile of rocks is! yeah
the layers that they've uncovered here throughout time
it's a time-teller
April's always taking a picture of a pile of rocks and trying to call it art.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder we'll use your pile of rocks to reveal
the bridge
Lions Bridge is a bridge over the Vladia (sorry i'm probably not saying that right)
River in the center of Sofia built 1889 through 1891
by a Czech architect whose name i'm not going to try to pronounce
along with his brother and his cousins. the name
comes from the four bronze sculptures of-- get this,
wait for it... lions! no way!
all metal elements of the bridge were produced by the Austrian company of
Rudolph Philip Waagner and electric lights were
installed in the early 1900s. the entire construction of the bridge
cost--how much do you think? take a stab at it. i have no idea. 260000
golden lei. wow this seems like a lot of money back then.
then in 2014 a major reconstruction of the square was
completed which converted the intersection into a two level
interchange,which we went up and down on, so that the
automobile traffic was removed from the bridge
reserving the bridge only for trams and pedestrians.
we just got dropped off by a cab to our Airbnb
we decided we're going to go to the grocery store and make some dinner
because all the real restaurants look like they
were all closed and we didn't feel like eating
fast food so now we're going to take a 15 minute walk to go get the groceries. maybe.
hopefully the store is open because--I bet Wayne that it's not
i bet him a thousand dollars. right but she didn't have a thousand dollars so i
can't get that money if i win you don't have
it so i can't get that money. i don't have a dollar that's why it's Go
Travel On The Cheap.
well as you can see the grocery stores closed. April was
right. April was right i was wrong.
what?!! we have video proof of this? yeah. all right so now we gotta figure out how
long a walk it is to the next grocery store that i know is
open but it was tiny
Wanna see our Christmas feast? oh yeah we got all kinds of junk food. we have the hydration
hydration and the dehydration--alcohol and water--
we have the wild mushrooms and sour cream
chips we have the coffee for the morning a tomato an orange
a banana a pepper Wayne and his weird thousand island
that's for the hamburger
eggs
a strawberry filled Bel-Vita because i eat those sometimes
when i'm on the go. Wayne's little candy waffles
an onion...bread...
tortillas for the morning and last but not least
some Lindt chocolate. Merry Christmas to me! so this was 60
was how much was it 65 yeah 65 uh Bulgarian--Bulgarian dollars
and that comes out to about 36 and some change for U.S. i had uh
i would have spent that just on the Jameson to be honest with you back home
yep. let's dig in and make this feast! it's always interesting cooking at
an Airbnb because you are definitely limited to
whatever they have for ingredients because you don't go buy everything i'm
not even sure what this is i think that's balsamic
yeah that's what it smells like
final product of Christmas dinner... hamburgers!
hamburgers in Bulgaria. hamburgers in Bulgaria
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