Bulgaria Chapter II: Plovdiv for a day

All you need to do is go to the central bus station in Sofia, hop in a bus and in a couple of hours you find yourself strolling around in a very old, interesting and pretty town. Plovdiv (a.k.a Philippoupolis) was a very pleasant escape from all that snow and frost in Sofia. Check it out!




































Nice?

Bulgaria, Chapter I: Sophistication, sofistication, snowphistication

Was it cold in Bulgaria? You bet it was! However, the half-brave, half-crazy, globe-trotting contributors of foto aparat always get the job done! So...I’m sorry for the 3 month delay and I hope you enjoy the sites, faces and oddities that my frozen fingers and eyes managed to capture in Sofia.













































Well...we’ve got snow on lions and dogs, roofs and churches, parks, shoes and paths. But in order to get in the present mood and to honour a previous post....


..spring always rests quietly and waits for its turn!

Winter has arrived

Hardcore foto-aparat fans, this is the exact same view with my previous post, with some snow spilled on top!


I was starting to get really jealous by seeing all previous snowy posts from my fellow contributors but hey, I ain't jealous any more!


Because today I woke up to this view.


I know this is definitely not the typical picture a non-Greek has about my country


but I guess winter has reached its final destination... Greece!

Україна-Кокаїна (Ukraine-Cocaine)

Life is full of contradictions. People always want something they don't have at the moment. In drizzling slurpy winter they dream of summer sunshine. In hot and sweaty summer they think of fairy snowy winter. Modern ways of living allows people to go from summer to winter and vice verca in a matter of airplane ticket. This happend to us as well.




This time Egypt amazed me with local residents / vendors / entertainers, who, after getting answer to the question "Where are you from", started shouting "Ahh, Україна-Кокаїна!" ("Ukraine-Cocaine"). Nobody would probably tell who taught them this. And I never heard this phrase outside of Egypt.

At the breakfast:




Dolphin following the divers' boat:




Current affairs on Al Jazeera:




Jetty on the coral reef after the sunset:




Colors:




Eat, drink, enjoy.




View of Cyprus from the airplane on the way back:



Notice the fine curvature of our tiny planet.