REPOST of a blog I made on a previous site

Levs in Sofia

Armchair football fans know nothing about support for a club! Saying that some clubs dont care for anything but the armchair fan but thats a diff blog! Right now I will say is fancy getting up at 2am to catch a 6:40 from gatwick? Hmmm Lev number one!
Lev number two! Because Bulgaria are currently out of the EU and the Eurozone their currency is the mighty Lev:

1 Bulgarian lev = 0.346429405 British pound

BUT! They are quite hard to get hold off so end up not flying with any Levs!

Anyhow off we go and to be fair sofia is an ok city but it did not help that it was just like england usually weather wise, i.e Lev number three RAIN!

Oh hum but they have for delight of lovers of fast food the golden arches and some other nice western eateries but we went to a Happy grill which does a mix of both types of food.For the record Bulgarian food is supposed to be typical european cuisine i.e bread, yogurt and fresh milk, cheese, tomatoes, paprika.
For a more in depth visit

http://www.bulgariantourism.com/info/vi_food.php.

As for tourist attractions predominant in the skyline I visited was St Alexander Nevski Memorial Church or Cathedral

However there are a couple more attractions if the weather is nice see

http://www.sidestep.com/travel-guides/text/europe/bulgaria?destId=FR3535&narrativeId=FR3535010029

use google images for pics as the info here is nice and concise.

WARNING! by the St Alexander Nevski are market stalls which could be ok but I did not get anything from them and would not regardless of Levs they seem to sell either knock off or genuine WW2 memorabilia from Nazis and Soviets which either way cannot be right. Also religious icons.

Lev number four was in nervous laughter as they seem obsessed with knives there- they had them on the market stall and one shop had fully fledged swords in the window display all very worrying and the match hadnt started yet.........

Lev number five was very similar. Our stewards warned us that as Levski fans love their flares they try to hide em down their pants. So we too were threatened with an intimate body search!......Levly!

In the end we seemed to be spared this but then it might have been a slack night as flares seemed to be strangely present in pockets of the Levski crowd! so what happened there then?

Hmmm anyway the final laugh (I as you have have got bored of the crappy pun) was for early parts of the game Chelsea looked like they would lose and then to cap it all we let them score in the dying minutes when a clean sheet was screaming to be kept. Lets face it if we cant keep out Levski what hope the combined mights of Ronaldinho Messi et al........

Dochuvane