My Bulgarian/Athens trip

Well, I was lucky enough to go to Bulgaria for work. While I did not take any photos here, it was kinda wierd. Its sort of like how I imagined southern russia during the communist era to look. Poorly maintained roads, large apartment blocks... its kinda hard to describe but it definateliy felt like a far eastern european city. ALso "tea bag" from Prison Break was on my flight, sitting two rows in front of me.

Once I finished my work in Bulgaria on the Friday, instead of heading back to London (being a long weekend) I decided to go to Athens and fly home on the Monday morning. I found a cheap and what turned out to be a nice hostel in Athens.



The engineer from work who lives in Athens gave me a lift to the metro and I ended up getting to the hostel quite late in the evening, so I had a quick shower and went for an hour or so walk just to check the place out.

So I was not alone all weekend, I signed up for a walking tour which left the hostel on Saturday morning. The tour guide was more of a walking companion..... they did not come into any of the tourist areas, but at least they took us to all the right places. Anyway, on the tour, I met two really nice people... Marie (from Quebec)and Don from Jakarta. So we all went out to dinner with some other people on Saturday night after the tour. Don left on the Sunday morning so Marie and I walked some more and then made our way down to a beach that Visilius (the Greek engineer from work) recommended. We did not get there until quite late in the afternoon, so it was cool, however still good to see....... no where near as nice as home!!!! Take a look at the pics.