My trip to Bulgaria

Last summer I went to Bulgaria with my family and volleyball team. We started from Põltsamaa in 19th august and came back in 31st. We went with two cars: our car and a bus from Põlva. The place we went is called Primorsko. It’s on the bank of Black sea.

My father and mother had to lead the trip so they had to know everything about the visas and about the hotels and of course the road. My mother looked for information about the place and father learned the road. It was quite hard but we made it. We didn’t have to back almost anything because there was warm and clear in Bulgaria.

When we were driving, there were interesting happenings. Our itinerary was: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. In Latvia we wanted to take a shortcut but that didn’t turn out well. Bus was bought two weeks before the trip so the owner (also bus driver) didn’t want to rune the bus. But when we were past the Riga, there were a shortcut and we thought that we should use it. So we took a shortcut. The road was just „great”: First of all it was gravel, there were also so much holes. But that wasn’t all: we had to drive about 15 kilometers on cobbled road. We thought it was neat but when we saw the face of the bus owner then it was really fearful.

Then we made it to Romania. That wasn’t very good. When we were over the border a police stopped us and we had to pay 100 euros. But it wasn’t all. Our bus driver was so skilful that he backed into BMW. So we had to spend our time in police station.

In Hungary we went to swimming gages. It was great. In Romania we were in dolphinarium in Varna. There you can realize how smart the dolphins really are. And finally we made it to Bulgaria. At the border the troubles started. First they let us pay more than we should need to pay. Then my coach played a bad trick: she told our mother that she won’t pay us any more money and we have to find it by ourselves (sport school had to pay the gas bills and our coach had the money).

So my mother had to find money for 4000 kilometres.

The day after we reached to Primorsko the competition started. We lost first game but won all the others. We won 5th place. But the main action wasn’t the competition it was swimming and shopping. The Black sea was 100 meters from our hostel. The water was 27 degrees and air was about 35-45. In morning we went to swimming. By the way we saw there jellyfish and only thanks to me. When we played volleyball in water I stepped on two jellyfishes. They died and I bought a swimming mask to avoid the other ones. It was quite kreepy. But thanks to me we all saw themJ. One interesting thing was when we looked for food market. We looked everywhere and finally a local helped us. He told us where a very big market is. When we saw that market we were really surprised: their biggest market was as small as our English class.

At night all people gathered to the main street and the life started. There were trampolines, snakes and monkeys, everybody had a party. That continued till morning then they slept a few hours and went to beach. That was the way they were living. In mornings me and my father went to running in 7o´clock and when we saw people we could notice that they looked us like miracles. One morning a man was sitting by his house and we ran past him. When we had run about 5 kilometers we past him again. Next morning when we ran past him he told us how fast we had ran and he told us that if we ran faster than that he will give my father 1 liter vodka. We ran faster but for his luck my father and mother don’t drink.

In last day we bought several souvenirs: my brother who was at home got Ronaldini football shirt, I got a blouse and dolphine, my sister had skirt and mother and father had a suntan!

We went back through Serbia and Montenegro what was a really nice country. But near Romanian boarder there were gypsys. They panhandeled money. We saw how about 6 years old boy took a class cleaning broom, but it to his pants and ran away. When he was far enough he took it out and went to panhandeling. It was sad to see these kids.

So that was my trip to Bulgaria. It was more than 6000km long but really cool.