{"id":9160,"date":"2023-02-17T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9160"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:39:19","slug":"worth-the-wait-part-2-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/worth-the-wait-part-2-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth the Wait Part 2: Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>After Romania, we were off to Bulgaria. We&#8217;ve been trying to learn Russian for a while now, and our knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet came it quite handy on this whole trip.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9165\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_9165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1028px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9165 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-7.34.08-PM-1024x560.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-7.34.08-PM-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-7.34.08-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-7.34.08-PM-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-7.34.08-PM-1536x840.png 1536w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-03-at-7.34.08-PM-2048x1120.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_9165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entering Bulgaria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you can tell from the architecture, the Soviet Union left their thumbprints all over the region.<\/p>\n<p>Our guide insisted that Bulgarian yogurt is the best in the world, but we were more impressed with the rose liqueur. There was also some rose brandy, which was hella intense, but it was the liqueur that we bought to bring home. We think it&#8217;ll be great over ice cream.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9166\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_9166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 2094px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9166\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2090\" height=\"2710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM.png 2090w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM-790x1024.png 790w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM-768x996.png 768w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM-1185x1536.png 1185w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-04-at-12.23.13-PM-1579x2048.png 1579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2090px) 100vw, 2090px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_9166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obviously the USSR isn&#8217;t responsible for the awesome Wile E Coyote landscape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Romania, we were off to Bulgaria. We&#8217;ve been trying to learn Russian for a while now, and our knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet came it quite handy on this whole trip. As you can tell from the architecture, the Soviet Union left their thumbprints all over the region. Our guide insisted that Bulgarian yogurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,326],"tags":[426,564],"class_list":["post-9160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-road-trip","tag-travelogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9168,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}