Monday

Beofre I start on Monday, I forgot to mention Bobby's other faux pas yesterday. We could see him being searched at the security bit of Charles de Gaul airport and the guard seemed especially vigorous with his checks. He even seemed to be checking in Bobby's mouth! When Bobby came through we asked what had happened he looked a bit sheepish and admitted that when the french accented security guard was patting him down, Bobby thought he had said 'tongue' so he stood there sticking out his tongue like some demented St. Bernards, waggling it around to the left and the right. Needless to say the security guard stopped the search and looked at Bobby like he was daft and said 'Turn' more clearly.

Monday then. We drove from Sofia to Kardjali and ate lunch at a restuarant we had frequested last year. We heard that the man with the van that we were going to use had heard it was for 'foreigners' and added a mileage charge that meant we would have been cheaper buying our own van! So were potentially stuck with no transport. So we asked the owner of the restuarant if he knew someone who could help. He did and after a few phone calls we picked up a minibus that had it's seats removed to give us a big van. (He had been impressed last year when we had told him what we had done and he was happy to help this year)

We then drove to our final destination further south and Tim (I) drove the van. It was another day of travelling and inactivity and I think we are all glad to be starting on a more active day today. Willie, Tim and Gordon got up early this morning (6am) to pack the van ready for an early start on the road and afterwards we had breakfast at the hotel. Four of us plus our contact are are about to embark on the trip to the school to install the playground the rest are staying behind and sort the equipment into piles for each of the destinations. Hopefully we will be able to cover some of those today using the smaller vehicles. More news later...