April 28 2005 page 16 |
2005 BALKANS TOURBen Oostdam |
BULGARIA |
| On my second walk, started just before noon, I walked to the red kiosk at the end of the narrow Benkovkski street, then turned left onto the main shopping street which ended on the spectacular Ploshtad Dzhumaya. |
| From here I took photograph of the mosque (left), the artists and the recently uncovered (by a landslide, nonetheless) Roman stadium. | 
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| The juxtaposition of the tranquil ancient stadium until recently just buried below the crowded central square is unbelievably coincidental. Unfortunately, I changed card after the first shot and somehow lost all photographs on that card. |
| Before I climbed up to and past the massive Sveta Bogoroditsa (Mary, Mother of God) cathedral and looked for the Danov House/Museum, I made a quick stop at a restaurant-garden where I got to talk to a beautiful Greek girl Lina who studied German and was on a tour with her fiancee, a Greek Naval Officer. We took each others' pictures but I am still waiting for them to send me some. The Danov House offered a good view but was closed for lunch. I met and walked along with a charming gent named Tathew who taught music and showed me the Lamartine House ands the Ethnographic Museum. I spent about an hour looking at their fine displays, took picts of visiting schoolchildren, artists' wives selling their husbands' sketches, coils of skin-over-bone kittens and a hole-in-the-floor toilet from which I could barely arise at the pleasant beergarden near the top of ancient syenite Nebet Tepe Hill, then easily wound and descended my way back to Dafi at 15:40. |
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