Skiing in Bulgaria

I am sitting inside the Hotel Aneli in Bansko watching it snow heavily outside. We've just had four days of great skiing with blue skies, but today I don't think we will be venturing too far outside...maybe just a little tobogganing this afternoon if the snow eases a little.

We ended up spending two great days in Istanbul - what an amazing city! And, if anyone I know goes there again I would strongly advise to bring an excellent credit card as there is so much that I could have bought! Well, I did end up having a shopping extravaganza in Zara and came out with 4 bags of new clothes! After 5 months of skanky bush clothes it was so nice to put on some proper clothes! I threw some of the offending items of clothes away to make room in the pack!

From Istanbul we caught an overnight bus to Sofia in Bulgaria which was reasonably ok. Two passengers on the bus got left at the border post at 1am for overstaying their visas which was interesting. We arrived in at about 6am and then jumped straight on a bus to Bansko where we have been ever since.

It's a great little town and beers cost as little as $1.50 in a restaurant which is an excellent start to a good holiday! Our little hotel has turned out to be great and we get private transfers to the gondola station and they let us use the internet behind the reception desk...although it is incredibly slow.

Might have to just spend the day drinking mulled wine and watching the snow.

xxx