Valieko tarnovo to sofia

  It was great to arrive at our destination and think of some rest time , Our drive yesterday was 6 and a  half hours !and all our previous days were all more than that ! if you can imagine us driving or being passenger for an average of 8 hours a day one driving the other choosing the music for 6 days 8hrs a day ,The choice of music is important and I've got to admit it cammy won that battle his CD collection was much better than mine! even though i still stuck to my guns and used my CD's when i was passenger his music was much better ,

        last night the plan was to have dinner in the gurhka restaurant which has lovely views out over VT its monuments and monastery . But we parked up the merc and walked to city bar just in case  there was some footy on ! There was no footy but we were enjoying the beer and the menu was excellent we had tried the local food previously in this bar, this time we went for some new stuff from their updated menu it was very tasty, we ordered a third plate of chicken fillets as we were very hungry but although we finished the lot we didn't really need a third plate , we went to the other bar we liked the last time called rock an rolla but it was shut, so we had a beer at a terrace bar with a view over the town with a cracking night sky and blood moon , then ended the night in vogue the young persons disco bar as it had the late licence !

       by the time we got up in the morning josh (Bryan's mate ians son ) was already round and when we told him we had just parked the merc up for the night in town ,he said we had best go get it as it may have been clamped !sure enough the mighty merc our battle cruiser was clamped ( i bet she was growling when they clamped her ) fortunately josh lives here so speaks and reads the language. he phoned a number a van turned up we paid a 17LEV fine ( about £8 so fair enough for an overnight park ! ) to get the wheel clamp off

      The choice we have today is have a nice days rest floating around Bryan's house in the sun ?or get packed and organised to catch our Saturday midday flight and have our last night out in sofia tonight ? i would have loved to have had a walk up to VT's monastery and a nice dinner and night out here but it would be an early rise on Saturday to get to sofia for 10;00 am (its a 2.5hr drive), Josh is driving us to the airport, he doesn't care which day he takes us ! cammy is not wanting the early rise as he is heading to paris with his girlfriend on Sunday and is worried about how little sleep he is going to get ,(he has a ticket to go watch germanys v Slovakia in the quarter finals of the euros) , apparently according to josh midday is beer o'clock in Bulgaria and we all should have a lunchtime beer ! who are we to break a tradition ? so we sat around the table in the sun of Bryan's drive and made our decision , 

       we opted for the night out in sofia and longer in our bed in the morning , no rest day for these boys !
         Josh dropped us in VT while he went and got things ready for our airport drive ,we had a couple of beers and a lunch in the centre of town 

     

     josh came and got us to our hotel in sofia for 8pm , the hotel is called central hotel sofia and its a good hotel at a good price we don't need to think about the mighty merc she is now based in her new home safely delivered maybe needing a wee wash some oil and TLC but not a scratch ! 

  Look how much she has been taxed and certificated ! , today Britain voted out of the EU , I will keep my political thoughts out of the blog, also I'm not entitled to an opinion as i didn't vote  , I don't think The rest of europes even noticed yet , here's hoping it will not stop us from doing a drive like this again