45.2 km - Total so far 4,044.9 km - Route pedalled. Relive Video (with pictures)
Video of the day: Europe Day 76 453 Left to pedal
We are safe and secure in Haskovo, Bulgaria.
We went through four villages today and looked for stork nests. In each village, we saw seven, four, two and seven nests respectively.
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| Breakfast stop and stork nest |
Storks are considered harbingers of spring and are often associated with good luck and fertility. What is particularly interesting is that the two villages that had the most storks looked the poorest of the four.
We had to shop for groceries around the neighbourhood and figured its like every other town in Bulgaria where there is the equivalent of a well stocked dépanneur on almost every street corner. Turns out it was not. At one of the few shops we found, we literally had to grocery window shop. You can’t go into the tiny store, so you point at things you want or ask for it using Google Translate and then you pay at the window. The choice is very limited and we could not get most of what we wanted. We chose to get less of what we needed in order not to walk 20 minutes to a supermarket in the blistering heat. We did manage to find a small town square with the clock that celebrated the town’s 1,000 years of existence.
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| New clock tower built in 1985 for the 1,000 anniversary |
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| Haskovo old clock tower (restored in 2012) |
We had supper at the hotel restaurant. We had the traditional clay plate of chicken and vegetables. It was a bit different from what we got on Sunday in Plovdiv in that it had a lot of white cheese on it. We must have gotten a regional variant today. They were large size portions.
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| Supper, it would have been better with no cheese |
Tomorrow we head to Svilengrad, our last town in Bulgaria.
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