courtesy of a kettle in our room. Contrary to the many highlights of our time there, we had one definite lowlight
involving me and one friend, Dom, being offered several camels and money for Laz, which naturally didn’t go down
too well. Despite avoiding any real confrontation from it and sticking to the recommended “No thanks” that our
tour guide had suggested we say, we found ourselves being followed around by two fairly large Turkish men.
Whether they were waiting merely for a chance to pick our pockets or something else we will never know, as we
soon bumped into a group of about ten guys from our group and our tails soon disappeared.
Sofia
From Istanbul and Turkey it was on to our first real taste of Eastern Europe; Sofia, Bulgaria. Although we were only
there for one night, it is somewhere I definitely want to return to in order to explore in more detail – our brief walk
around the city was enough to convince me it was a cool place. I remember on the way in asking our tour manager
what the quality of our accommodation and food would be like, only to be met with a depressing “well its Eastern
Europe, I think you can guess”. Word soon passed around that our hotel would be pretty shoddy, so we were all
incredibly surprised when we arrived to find an almost palatial building, with chandeliers adorning our bedrooms,
massive flat screen TVs, and one of the biggest meals we’d had all trip. Turns out that the money we had been
spending on accommodation was more or less spent equally at each