When 'yes' means 'no'

Sitting and sweating like a pig in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. It's a beautiful small town with some great hiking and great ruins. We ended up scrapping the camping idea because we couldn't find any campgrounds close to the towns that would rent us a tent. Instead we're in a hostel with the best view you could ever imagine. We kind of ended up 'camping', because the temperature has been so hot at night that the 10 bed dorm rooms were a sauna driving me to sleep outside on the cement floor of the terrace. There's an insane amount of bugs both inside and out (understandable considering the only thing seperating inside from outside is a beaded curtain), I've seen the biggest beetle ever.

Did a great hike today for about 4 hours to some waterfalls where the 6 of us ate lunch. It was so hot that we ended up just hiking in our bathing suits. The waterfalls were so refreshing to stand under!!!

We've managed to become regulars at this local restaurant, about to go for our fourth meal there in 2.5 days. You can't imagine how amazing the food is for how cheap. A huge salad, giant pizza, side of potatoes cost about $5 canadian altogether. I left each time with a stomach ache from so much food.

Tonight is a night train to Istanbul. Apparently we'll all have to file out in the middle of the night when we get to the Turkey border to buy our visas in the closest major currency to where we're from - We get ours in American (thanks for the emergency US dollars, dad...), the Irish get theirs in Euros, and the Brit gets his in pounds. It's quite odd that they wouldn't just use either the Turkish currency or Euros... ah well, we'll see how it goes.

If anyone has a second, could they use the power of google and see if they can find any pubs in Istanbul that would celebrate Canada Day???? I bought a red shirt at a street stand specifically for the occasion :)