So now we're in Bulgaria. I know this because Google helpfully has decided that I can speak Bulgarian and is offering me the following
It turns out that reading things in Bulgarian isn't so bad. I mostly know the alphabet from my Russian reading and a lot of the nouns for things we might want are in phonetic variants of English, French or German (the above адрес is just adres, so address). Plus I know a few of the common words from their very similar Russian versions.
We've been a bit affected today by Orthodox Easter Monday being a public holiday in Bulgaria (Orthodox Easter is after Western Easter because those churches still use the Julian calendar for liturgical purposes). Shops are open, but museums and the like are not, so we had a quiet day.
Just as well really since I'm already starting to lose track of time. We wandered past a building just now and I said to Alison that I remembered seeing it some time ago – which is hardly surprising because it was earlier that morning.
We didn't have that much time in Cyprus, so we charged around all over the country trying to get in the highest priority things. The weather was fabulous, which allowed us to do things, but the heat was quite tiring.
We've been a bit affected today by Orthodox Easter Monday being a public holiday in Bulgaria (Orthodox Easter is after Western Easter because those churches still use the Julian calendar for liturgical purposes). Shops are open, but museums and the like are not, so we had a quiet day.
Just as well really since I'm already starting to lose track of time. We wandered past a building just now and I said to Alison that I remembered seeing it some time ago – which is hardly surprising because it was earlier that morning.
We didn't have that much time in Cyprus, so we charged around all over the country trying to get in the highest priority things. The weather was fabulous, which allowed us to do things, but the heat was quite tiring.
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