Having spent quite some time in Norway already, I decided to only stop in Oslo for a few hours. Luckily, … More
Category: City
Brewing up a hill
The competition organisers put on a couple of excursions which any competition participants could join if they wished. The first … More
Spring snow
My next trip to a European country was to Norway in April. I was invited to judge the European Indoor … More
Why is Sofia called Sofia?
As mentioned in my first post about Sofia, the city was originally called Serdica. It lay on a much trafficked … More
More walking around Sofia
After leaving the shopping centre, we walked a little further south to a spot from which you can see a … More
Free Sofia Tour
This is not a tour to free a captive Sofia, rather it is a free walking tour around the city … More
St Aleksander Nevsky Cathedral
The architect who build St Nicholas’ Russian Orthodox church was being supervised by A Smirnov, who was building the Aleksander … More
St Nicholas
On my first walk out in the city, found the Russian Orthodox church of St Nicholas governed by the Moscow … More
Serdica
My visit to Malta in January this year was closely followed by a trip to Sofia in Bulgaria. As the … More
Vinally Valletta
The last place I visited during my trip to Malta was the capital, Valletta. It was in a bit of … More