13 August 2008
Travelling can actually be fun
I did barely any reading about Bulgaria before I boarded the plane. I had no route, no plan, and nothing booked except a rental car. We simply made it all up as we went along, stopped where we liked, had a look at two or three hotels or guesthouses before choosing one, and stayed an extra day in places we found we were enjoying. We drank large quantities of Bulgarian wine and Romanian beer, visited marvellous monasteries and churches, ventured as much into the countryside as possible, and ignored any 'must sees' we didn't feel like seeing.
It was wonderful. I could almost start to like travelling again.
I will in fact write two stories, but only because they are subjects I came across that appealed to me.
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We did the same thing in Bulgaria a year or so ago and it was wonderful. We had a break of 6 weeks between commissions, between an Amsterdam job and a Greece project, so we travelled through the former Eastern European countries, simply doing whatever we felt like, mostly city-hopping, but in Bulgaria like you we hired a car for a week or two and it was fantastic. We particularly enjoyed the countryside. We did have a guidebook though, although rarely used it, and I remember suddenly coming upon this most incredible Russian Orthodox gold-domed church that was stunning and wasn't in the book. Felt like we'd actually 'discovered' something for the first time in a long time, but what was lovely was not having the pressure to write about it.
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