Sometimes easy to make. Sometimes not. Forecast shows rain due later. The weather girl and boy get discombobulated. Shall we Scoot? Call a taxi? Chicken out. Wrong call. Remains dry.
11am and we’re up and running. Well, walking actually. On another Free Walking Tour. This time around, around the original capital – Veliko Tarnovo. The amazing old city built in, on and around three hills. They seem locked in on all sides. As if sitting within an old collapsed volcano. A high natural rocky wall skirts its perimeter.
Plami passionately fills that space between our ears. Her speed talking skill, second to none. In English too. We have to concentrate to keep up. How the Non-English cope a mystery. She bombards us with info. Fingers and hands dance along. Her carefully chosen stops and chosen topics flood light into those dark areas all things Bulgarian. From the Romans to the Soviets. From religious to current day secular.
Two hours becomes three. The group cling on to the end as if wanting to get their money’s worth. Did they remember it’s free? Finish with a group photo for Facebook.
