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Cyprus

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It’s so weird that it’s only a sea between the war in Syria and the endless parties of Ayia Napa in Cyprus. It really shows how different the world can be when in Cyprus the biggest problem seems to be that the buses come and go however they want. We got a taste of that when I and my friend Andreas arrived almost two weeks ago and the first bus from the airport dropped us of and the driver said “some bus will come sometime and take you to Ayia Napa”. We waited an hour before all 6 of us who had been dropped off got tired of waiting for something that wasn’t going to come, so we split a cab together. We all were couples of 2 people who knew each other and we told the cab driver to go to the center of Ayia Napa so we all could walk from there, but one grumpy old man of the company just yelled his hotel name all the time so the cab driver took us there instead, which was very far from the center. Fortunately the cab driver made a second stop and we finally arrived at the beach hotel calle...

Bulgaria

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Me and my friend Andreas had just been to the party paradise Ayia Napa in Cyprus when we arrived to the airport of the capital of Bulgaria called Sofia. It wasn’t easy to understand how to get into the city center because people didn’t know English and the information wasn’t very clear. We got on a bus and hoped for the best and immediately I understood that Sofia wasn’t trashy chic like Bucharest in Romania for example, it was just trashy. When most people left the bus we did too and we arrived at a bridge that was being protected by eagle statues. We decided to walk to the hotel instead of taking the metro the last way but we couldn’t help ourselves, since we had been drinking almost every day in Ayia Napa we thought it would be a good start to go to a roof top bar and take a drink. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was the center point of the magnificent view and I started to change my opinion about Sofia again, maybe I should give it a second chance, and not judge it from the ...