Plovdiv – Bulgarias second largest city

Plovdiv – Bulgarias second largest city

We stayed in Plovdiv for 5 nights, one of our longest stops in a single place during our trip through Europe, we wanted to have a lot of time here as when we researched he city there seemed to be a lot of historical sites that really appealed to us. It was also nice...

Nis (pronounced Nish)

Nis (pronounced Nish)

We left Mokra Gora very early in the morning to continue our journey on Nis, a small Serbian city that sits close to the boarder of Bulgaria. As we had come to accept after spending a week now in Serbia, and after trying and failing on many occasions when we were...

Making friends in Mokra Gora.

Making friends in Mokra Gora.

As mentioned in previous posts, there is a hotel in Mokra Gora which has an excellent restaurant, and it is here we met Aleksandra. As a local of the village, Aleksandra knew all there was to know and also spoke excellent English, which was extremely helpful to us! We...

Emir Kusturica’s Drvengrad

Emir Kusturica’s Drvengrad

On our last day in Mokra Gora we went for a walk uphill to Drvengrad – a wooden town built by famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica as the set for his film ‘Life is a Miracle. It’s a beautiful town built between two mountains;...

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