The Third Book: To Bulgaria With Big Rucsacs (Bacons On Tour)

Following two rather chaotic month long trips travelling on public transport around Romania. The "Old Couple With Big Rucsacs" decided to take their "No plans, no frills, no idea" to another Eastern European country.

After much pondering over different possible locations they finally settled on Bulgaria. Here a further challenge was offered as it has the Cyrillic alphabet and so they had to get used to reading София instead of Sofia etc. Add to this their total lack of preperation (first glance at the guide book was on the flight over) and you get the idea.

Their resultant route was cobbled together from 'Things you must see in Bulgaria', conversations with locals and their general inquisitiveness. On the way they faced the usual challenges of independant travel in a foreign land as well as; falling in rivers, getting stung by jelly fish, suffering food poisoning and there was even a dislocated ankles.

Throughout it all they kept their sense of humour even when their luggage went missing.