We had decided the previous night to go to Sophia Bulgaria, so after seeing Topkapi Palace we took the metro to the bus station. After going to a few bus companies we found a $35 round trip ticket, it was a night bus so it saved the cost of the hostel. We had some time until our bus so we went to Ikea, it felt just like the Emeryville store. The bus was a struggle... not just trying to sleep on a bus but the driver took rest stops, lights on and off, and we had to wait outside in the cold for a while at the border.
6:30am get to Sophia. The hostel lady tells us check in isn't until 11am but we could sleep on the couch. Talking to other travelers that night people would say "o yeah you were the guy sleeping on the couch". The hostel was this cool artsy place in a old travelers inn, really nice staff, good common area, clean, they gave us breakfast and at dinner a beer and plate of spaghetti.
Overcast and rain in late May= a change from the middle east climate. Bulgaria was communist until 1989 and the place definitely had the slightly depressed east Euro feel. Outside of the church were street vendors selling old memorabilia with Nazi and Communist insignias, it was like being in a museum but able to touch the exhibit.
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