Cheese, feta and yellow, tomato, spam and toast. What better way to start the day when you face 50km of up and down in the Bulgarian mountains?
Am failing big time in terms of capturing food and it’s associations for this “food” blog. But I do have a photo of food to share below. We started out in brilliant sunshine which accompanied us all the way. We passed many photo opportunities regarding food – crazy scarecrows that resembled large underpants, and quite a modern scarecrow that could compete with Sara Lund’s Norwegian sweater. We also passed numerous hill folk picking mushrooms and wild strawberries but I was camera shy.
It was hot today. At one point, Neil stopped to put on his very fetching white hat, only to be set upon by marauding sheep dogs. I was slightly ahead and when the first sheep dog seemed intent on following me, I had to change up a gear and pedal for my life. We both survived unharmed.
Today’s coffee stop was in the stands at Borino football pitch. Delicious coffee but the pitch looked in need of some attention.
We cycled in the blazing sun to the Yagodina caves through an amazing gorge. Photos below. The cave was cool and really good. While slightly claustrophobic following an earlier incident in Cheops in Cairo, there was always enough headroom to be comfortable. We came out and had a delicious lunch. Not a trout to be seen 🙂 the salad made an appearance but I chose the meatballs. They did not disappoint. I also had Bulgarian’s version of Lassi – known locally as Butermilk. Have tasted better but was ok.
After lunch it was a slow slog up along a river to Trigrad. The hotel here is great. We’ve just had dinner of salad and moussaka – portion sizes are very large. Great company for dinner and a lot of laughs.
Summary: sunshine/cave and a great evening meal – thanks to Ken, Janice, Lara and Luigi.
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