Traveling to Bulgaria

ASmitty · #1

Hello All,

This Sunday, I am leaving for Sofia, Bulgaria. I work for a bank as a software developer working in Microsoft .NET technologies. About 1-1.5 years ago, my bank purchased a European prepaid card company whose IT department is located there. Their developers work primarily in PHP and I'm heading overseas to help cross-train their team to work in .NET so that they can share some of our project workload. I'll be there for two weeks and obviously won't be working 24/7. I'm looking for suggestions of things I can do and sights I can see if my off time. I'm hoping some of my fellow forumites can help me out, particularly some of my European Spydie-brothers.

Any suggestions?

Bladekeeper · #2

Can't give you any sight seeing suggestions but have a friend who's family have a vacation home there.
Looks beautiful , cheap for living (although that's coming from someone used to paying uk prices and is now paying us prices) the latter being much cheaper than the former :) .
I tend not to set too much of an itinerary when travelling the best way of finding the hidden gems is to ask the locals not consult the tourist guides .
Given as you'll be training some you'll have the best people to ask right there ATB enjoy .

Commendatore · #3

I wouldn´t miss out Alexander Newski cathedral-an impressive sight and if lucky some orthodox choir will sing giving the special light also a special acoustic.

Officer Gigglez · #4

Bulgaria eh? I know little about Bulgaria other than they make good copies of surplus firearms, like Makarovs and so on.

ASmitty · #5

Commendatore wrote:I wouldn´t miss out Alexander Newski cathedral-an impressive sight and if lucky some orthodox choir will sing giving the special light also a special acoustic.

Thanks, I'll try to get it in. The guys in the office here have quite a few plans for us this coming weekend. Landed in Bulgaria today at 12:40pm local time. Flew threw the Vienna airport on the way.

araneae · #6

My buddy is from there. He would say eat at a small pub. And he would say have some Fanta- seriously the stuff is really good there as they use actual juice. He goes home every couple years and gains 5 pounds in fanta weight. I don't know anything specific but I could ask him if you need something else to see.

defenestrate · #7

Stunning countryside and Sofia is one of the more architecturally interesting areas in that part of Europe IIRC.

ASmitty · #8

defenestrate wrote:Stunning countryside and Sofia is one of the more architecturally interesting areas in that part of Europe IIRC.

Today we walked around Sofia including a stop at the Alexander Nevsky cathedral and a few other things nearby. After lunch we went to the National Museum of Military History. Their military history is quite fascinating.

ASmitty · #9

swigert wrote:Are you taking pics to share sometime...being from the states I would love to see!

I will post pics when I get home. I'm not much of a photographer, so I didn't bring a camera, but I took many photos with my iPhone 5s.