Tidbits from the last two days…

Noteworthy food:
I had a thin crust hand formed pizza with pancetta, very finely sliced chili peppers, and a handful of arugula on top. It was fantastic!

I don’t think a day has gone by without me eating at least one Shopska salad, the one with tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green peppers, and white cheese on top. They are very tasty!

One other interesting meal I had was called a chicken steak, it was basically a chicken boneless thigh flattened out, and then cooked with a strip of bacon on either side in the pan. A great idea and it was very tasty! Bacon is universal!

Other:
We drove to Nessebar about one hour away, a UN world heritage site. Pretty cool, but like with many world heritage sites I have visited, it is dominated by souvenir shops and restaurants.

We came back and went out to the beach near the complex were staying in. Saw what appeared to be a team building exercise, A group of about 10 people who shouldn’t be running on the beach were doing a relay race, looking like they were going to be sick! They asked Paul to take a group picture of them.

I swam in The Black Sea several times during the two days we were here. It is very cool and refreshing, but very nice to sit out on the beach in the sun and get hot, go in the water and cool off, come back out and warm up in the sun again. Duh, humans really enjoy being at the beach for this reason!

Spent a lot of time hearing about some of Paul’s more interesting current and past court cases, he is a trial lawyer and it’s interesting to hear how his mind works in dealing with people who are involved in fraudulent claims of injury trying to get money from business owners or insurance companies.

We have to drive back to Sofia today, doing the same 4 Hours we did a couple days ago. It is somewhat clouded over today, so we’ve been lucky to have hit the weather pretty well!

We stay in a hotel tonight, get up very early in the morning for return flights of many many hours…

The trip is inevitably winding down with long travels awaiting, but it’s been great to see so much of Bulgaria, and appreciate the good health and great fortune that allows me to hop on a bicycle for days at a time…