Photos – Bulgaria, 20-29 August 2014

Stamping our own passports at the Bulgarian border, 20 Aug

£2 champagne, Kozloduy, 21 Aug

Bike maintenance over lunch in only restaurant open in Lom, 21 Aug

Communist statue in old square, Lom, 21 Aug

Memorial of the Victims of Communism, 21 Aug

21 Aug

21 Aug

Northern Bulgaria was strewn with deserted Communist-era factories, 21 Aug

Camping next to the tobacco factory outside Pleven before the thunderstorm, 22 Aug

22 Aug

Our plum picker leading us to the only restaurant in Selanovtsi, 22 Aug

23 Aug

Camping underneath the bridge in Byala after meeting Nikolai, 24 Aug

Chief of police’s wife taking our namecard at the gas station, 24 Aug

24 Aug

24 Aug

The horse we saved from roadkill, 24 Aug

24 Aug

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24 Aug

Perhaps previously a road, 24 Aug

25 Aug

25 Aug

Aleks’ dad’s rakija, Varna, 26 Aug

Varna, 26 Aug

Varna, 26 Aug

Varna, 26 Aug

Varna, 26 Aug

Varna, 26 Aug

Varna, 26 Aug

27 Aug

28 Aug

Kind of signs that were everywhere announcing deaths and anniversaries of deaths, 29 Aug

Extraordinarily cheap land, 28 Aug

29 Aug

Riding up 600m to Turkish border from Malko Tarnovo, 29 Aug