On Wednesday, August 28th, we had a walking tour of the Rila Monastery, including the Museum. There was unusual bustle around the church. It turned out that this day was the anniversary of the death of King Boris III in 1943, so his son, former King Simeon II (1943-1946), who was later Prime Minister of the Bulgarian republic from 2001 to 2005, would be there to visit Boris's tomb. We may or may not have actually seen King Simeon--I wouldn't have recognized him.
From Rila we drove for several hours to the Bessa Valley Winery, near Plovdiv, where we sampled three varieties of their wine.
Then we went on to Plovdiv, the second-largest city in Bulgaria, where we checked into the Ramada Plovdiv Trimontium. Mary Joy wasn't feeling weel (cold, sinus infection), so she didn't eat with the group at restaurant whose name I don't remember.
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