Expensive euro holiday
back in my 2nd year of uni, 3 mates and myself decided to go on a mini adventure to a foreign land, as one of them was a Bulgarian we chose to go to Sofia as he lived there and he can speak the language as i struggle with english let alone bulgarian, i organised it all 4 flights leaving from luton to sofia and no need for accomodation as we were gonna stop in a plush apartment in the city centre.
it was all booked and once uni was done for the summer we were off for 3 nights to sample bulgarian customs and hairy women maybe,
being students we were fairly broke already so the cheaper the better,
the day before we were due to leave for sofia our bulgarian friend told us he didnt have a passport after losing and not realising he needed it to travel back "home".
that took us to 3 of us leaving the next day,
i drove to the airport in my old shitty car which subsequently broke down en route to the airport! we struggled to the airport and parked up and left for sofia.
when we arrived we had to get in to the city which was a £20 ride
find a hotel at the last minute and salvage our long weekend
we found a hostel that would take us, back on the other side of the city so unheard of the taxi driver struggled to find it, this was a recurring theme throughout the stay.
it was also guarded by 2 rotweilers without leashes! i shit you not, it was terrifying!
after 3 days of not knowing where to go or what to do because of our lack of knowledge we'd spent £110 on just taxis to get about the place
the whole trip cost just shy of £750+ per person which was a bitter pill to swallow not only that but i had to get my car fixed for £230 as well
i would still recommend going to sofia as it was an extremely good night out and brilliant place but just be prepared, and if you walk throgh the city after 3am beware of prostitutes that will grope you and expect payment for said groping, my mate paid her to leave with a library card!
(robbbbbbbb, Tue 18 May 2010, 15:49, 1 reply)

Ah see you
missed a trick by not getting stupidely drunk every day. I found it to be the place where everyone was fighting to buy rounds in because we were paying about 75p for a pint....taxi's were a bit expensive I confess. One thing i did discover about Bulgaria is the people seem to be really nice. In a side note a member of our party pulled a Bulgarian gypsy, she seemed a bit eccentric at first then we found out from the hostel owners the next day, that she was from the local funny farm :S
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 18 May 2010, 16:16, closed)