....in downtown Sofia. In the outskirts of the city there are many large, ugly concrete apartment buildings, not too unlike those you see in Mexico City or Kathmandu (just to name two places we've been recently) but downtown is significantly more charming, not too different in spirit from Paris or Milano or Muenchen. We did go out strolling last evening, before having a pizza dinner--some things are universal, apparently--and returning to our hotel. It's been an exhausting, though very good, week.
What you can't see from our hotel is the pedestrian arcade two blocks away with lots of shops and restaurants, as well as the large parks and public spaces.