The competition organisers put on a couple of excursions which any competition participants could join if they wished. The first…
Icy gorge
On another afternoon of Artistic flying competition, the group of Formation Skydiving judges went for a walk around the lake…
Spring snow
My next trip to a European country was to Norway in April. I was invited to judge the European Indoor…
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 walking around Sofia
After leaving the shopping centre, we walked a little further south to a spot from which you can see a…
Free Sofia Tour
This is not a tour to free a captive Sofia, rather it is a free walking tour around the city…
St Aleksander Nevsky Cathedral
The architect who build St Nicholas’ Russian Orthodox church was being supervised by A Smirnov, who was building the Aleksander…
St Nicholas
On my first walk out in the city, found the Russian Orthodox church of St Nicholas governed by the Moscow…
Serdica
My visit to Malta in January this year was closely followed by a trip to Sofia in Bulgaria. As the…
Vinally Valletta
The last place I visited during my trip to Malta was the capital, Valletta. It was in a bit of…