Take a Walk
After my return from the Crimea, I had a few days on my own in Kalotina before my old college friend Peter arrived. Lenin's replacement One of the best things to do in Sofia is to take the FREE guided walking tour. In fact, I have often seen groups of tourists with their guides wandering around the streets, so I thought that it was high time that I joined one of these groups and did the full, two-hour tour. As my friend Peter really does not know Sofia, we joined one of these walking tours. They have become very popular and in fact there were so many of gathering outside the Palace of Justice that we had to be spilt into four separate groups. Dessi in action. Nice legs too. Our guide was a fast-talking and pretty young Sofiot called Dessi. Although she said that she was an economist, she really did know her history. First we stopped at the big church (no, I cannot remember the name), the one opposite The Happy Grill and where Maria Louisa Boulevard becom...