Bulgaria 19th Dec - 26 Dec 2010

We headed off on our snowboarding holiday, something I wasn't overly looking forward to as I didn't know how to snowboard. It took an hour and a half to get to our destination in Borovets from the airport in Sofia. On arrival we had a look around the ski resort which took us about 5 minutes. The next day was when it all started.. snowboarding! While in Bulgaria I decided to get lessons to actually learn how to snowboard. I spent the next three days getting lessons, while Paul, David and Lauren were ripping it up on the mountain. After my third day of lessons I was thoroughly enjoying snowboarding and could finally hang out with the other three and start riding down the mountains with some confidence.

Ash and her teacher

 

The crew refuelling

While in Borovets we chose to do some optional activities where we went snowtubing, drove skidoos, went on a horse drawn sleigh ride, visited a monastrey and took a tour of Sofia on our last day.  

Ash on the Skidoo ready to ride

Ash racing around in the Skidoo

Me on the Skidoo

Rila Monastery

Santa Shaw

Prezzies!! (In my christmas themed p.js)

View from the top

Sleigh ride on christmas day

Paul snowboarding

On Christmas day we opened our pressies from Santa where we all received lovely presents. We then headed off for a spot of snowboarding, followed by our sleigh ride, a nice massage for Lauren and I (while the boys played table tennis), a yummy christmas dinner with great entertainment then out to have a nosey around the village. A very different christmas day to what we are use to!

The ladies at christmas dinner

Traditional Bulgarian dance



The boys

The locals in Sofia playing chess

Old Roman street found under Sofia

Paul!!