Sofia had so much to explore. We didn’t start until 10:30 this morning because John caught Graham’s cold and wasn’t feeling well. Sofia is a great walking city and we were fortunate enough to be staying in the central area. The architecture of the city is a mix of communist era neoclassical and Western European. From our apartment we walked to Sveta Nedelya Church and square in the heart …
We got up at 4:45 am and were at the train station by 5:45am ( 25 minutes before our train arrived). Things went smoothly both travelling to and at the airport and there was even decent internet while we waited. Once we landed in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, we collected our luggage and got through immigration in mere minutes. Unfortunately our rental car representative was not waiting for …
We had barely scratched the surface of seeing Munich so we cancelled our tickets to Neuschwanstein Castle ( which is a two hour train ride each way). The day was sunny but cool. We got to the train station just in time to see our train leave. We seem to always just miss our train going in to Munich. We went immediately to Marienplatz where we watched the Glockenspiel …
It poured rain all night and was still dull and rainy in the morning. Thank goodness there are beer tents. I decided to take the big feather out of my Octoberfest hat because of the rain. It was also suggested by Graham and John that I take off the mini tin tart foil that I had replaced a lost button with at an Octoberfest celebration in the 80s. It …