Not Really a Bulgaria Trip Report, but Maybe

[Cossie]

Hungary certainly seems more prosperous than either Bulgaria or Romania, certainly cleaner and towns seemed to be much better looked after than here in Canberra, even though we do have a tram.... sarcasm alert on.......

We did however ventre into a village that was the complete opposite, without wanting to make any comments that may be regarded as politically incorrect, I would have guessed, given the attire and conditions that it was a 'gypsy" village.

We saw protests in Sofia with regards to Bulgaria converting to the Euro, some say that since Croatia adopted the Euro that prices have increased there and inflation is happening.
I mentioned before that there seemed to be very many expensive vehicles in all countries, including Serbia, even quite a few wearing Ukrainian plates.

SWIMBO's mother, although ethnically German was born in what is now the Ukraine. Kryvyi Rih was the centre of a large Mennonite community.
We saw a car with Ukrainian plate at Rila Monastery so got talking, seems their parents were from the same area of Kryvyi Rih.

I asked a little about their situation, it seemed they were living out of their car, they said the were Ukrainian by birth, but Russian in their head and soul, whoops, SWMBO'd said the look on my face was of shock or horror, or of not expecting that answer.....

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[Cossie]

Eager to get to Eger, stayed at a pension just out side the castle walls, very impressed with the pension and the owner.

https://patriapanzio.hu/en/

Very interesting read. Eger - Wikipedia

There was a wine festival happening, so quite a few people, we didn't get to that, nor did we visit the castle as it was too damned hot, have I said that before? We were also a bit castled out, Eger Castle

Would like to go back one day. So after a rest it was a bit of a wander around, as usual many things happening in the town square.

An seemingly minor issue we had was that the 'Waze' maps we were using, didn't like us going down motorways, even though we told it we had a vignette. Plus the traffic on the highways was more than I would have liked and multiple speed zone changes. Although oncoming vehicles and waze were good at notifying of cameras, and surprisingly hand held radar guns, haven't seen those for years.....

 

[Cossie]

Outside the castle wall very close to the pension was this set up.

However, some Hungarian silo art, photo taken as we drove past...









Time for a beer.

 

[OZDUCK]

Eager to get to Eger, stayed at a pension just out side the castle walls, very impressed with the pension and the owner.

https://patriapanzio.hu/en/

Very interesting read. Eger - Wikipedia

There was a wine festival happening, so quite a few people, we didn't get to that, nor did we visit the castle as it was too damned hot, have I said that before? We were also a bit castled out, Eger Castle

Would like to go back one day. So after a rest it was a bit of a wander around, as usual many things happening in the town square.

An seemingly minor issue we had was that the 'Waze' maps we were using, didn't like us going down motorways, even though we told it we had a vignette. Plus the traffic on the highways was more than I would have liked and multiple speed zone changes. Although oncoming vehicles and waze were good at notifying of cameras, and surprisingly hand held radar guns, haven't seen those for years.....

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I ead your Wiki link for Eger. It certainly seems to have been a magnet for invasions and sieges.