I am completely enamoured with ancient ruins and warn you now this won’t be our last post on these marvellous structures. I never tire of walking through buildings and on pathways where countless generations have passed before – they speak to my soul and Turkey is an ideal country to feed my soul. The historical…
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Our bus ride from Plovdiv to Istanbul reinforced my new mantra, “just go with the flow”. With her very limited English, the ticket agent at the bus station in Plovdiv let us know the bus was running about 45 minutes late and kindly let us leave our luggage in her office while we waited. She…
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Originally we planned to spend a week in Plovdiv before heading to the coastal town of Burgas where we understood there are some very good wrecks for diving. After speaking with several people on a few tours in Sofia (all of whom did not make Burgas sound very appealing) we decided instead to extend our…
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I’m so glad Howard has no reservations about driving in foreign countries, especially when they drive on the right side of the road, as it often affords us the opportunity to get off the beaten path. On our day trip from Plovdiv we drove a couple of hours north to the Buzludzha Monument (also known…
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We were sadly mistaken in our assumption that Bulgaria was going to be tolerant heat-wise. The country is in the midst of a heatwave and we’ve been enjoying 36+°C temperatures, which is 10-12°C warmer than normal for July. Plovdiv, where we head next, is expected to be in the 40’s – thankfully our Airbnbs have…
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We left Calgary early in the morning on Sunday, July 18th and arrived at our Airbnb in Sofia almost 35 hours later. We will do a full summary of our time in Sofia when we leave on August 2nd, but here’s what we’ve been up to since we arrived. You might ask, why Bulgaria? Well,…
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Back in July we had booked a week long vacation in the Dominican Republic, as a final family trip before embarking on our nomadic travels. Sadly, like countless other travellers, the Covid-19 pandemic altered those plans! While I appreciate this may sound like self-serving logic, we wanted to do our part to support the struggling…
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In October, 2020, we took a quick trip to Vancouver Island, British Columbia on Canada’s West Coast. Tofino can be expensive. Our travel costs for this trip were higher than our intended budget for retirement travel, but since we were both still working at that time, we splurged a bit and the information below will…
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