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Former Gornivodenski Monastery converted to hotel where we stayed--this is the church |
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Painting in the church at the monastery/hotel |
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Garden on the hotel grounds, you can see the rooms in the background |
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Asenova Fortress in southern Bulgaria |
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Bachkovo Monastery in southern Bulgaria |
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Pastoral scene in southern Bulgaria |
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View from our hike |
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Sheep in southern Bulgaria |
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We hiked this mountain a couple of days later |
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Hike scene |
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Snail |
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Lovely meadow and wildflowers |
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Carole and Henry |
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A chapel on the hill above Shiroka Luka, where we met Biseka |
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Paul and Biseka |
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A brook we encountered on our hike |
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Paul, Michael, and Carole enjoying beers after a day's hike |
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The mushroom man |
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Yagodina Cave |
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A church we encountered on a hike above Shiroka Luka |
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What's for breakfast! |
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Paul and the cows (I'm the one with the hat) |
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Our hiking group (sans Carole). Julian (3rd from left) is our guide. |
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Enjoying beers after a day's hike--Henry, Michael, Carole, Don, and me |
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Hotel Yagodina--our home base for a whole week. Excellent accommodations! |
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The Wondrous Bridges formation |
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St. Nikolai Russian church in Sofia |
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Sveta Nedelya Cathedral in Sofia |
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Flying over the Alps from Zurich to Milan |
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San Camillo Church near Stazione Centrale in Milan |
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Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Milan which houses da Vinci's Last Supper painting |
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My cugino Lorenzo |
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The new Mercedes Smart car |
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Sant'Ambrogio Church in Milan, founded by St. Ambrose |
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Zio Piero, Zia Gina, and my cugina Isabella |
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The Fiume (river) Bitto going through Morbegno |
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Zia Bianca, cugino Ettore, cugina Rosella, Zio Primo, and me |
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Me, Zia Bianca, cugino Ettore, cugina Rosella, Zio Primo, and cugino Enrico |
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Walking through Morbegno with my cugini, Laura, Agatha, Rosella, Lucca, me, and Ettore |
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My cugini (actually, chidren of my cugina Simona) Alice and Stefano |
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My cugina Simona and her husband Alessandro and my Zio Paolo |
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Zio Paolo, Zia Franca, cugina Debora, and me |
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In a bar in Uschione with the bartender, my Zio Paolo, and me |
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A scene at the mountain pass Passo dello Spluga where my cugino Sergio works |
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My Zia Andreina & Zio Meo |
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Me with my cugino Sergio |
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My Zia Andreina, cugino Paolo, his cugine Veronica and Valentina, and me |
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Dinner gathering with more cousins! (Ettore, Enrico, Barbara, Zia Andreina, Lucca, Laura, and Nicola) |
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Get-together at my Zia Gina & Zio Piero's summer cottage on Lake Como, with more cousins and aunts and uncles! (Zia Gina, Maria, Davide, and Alceste) |
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My Zia Franca and Zia Maria |