The Great Balkans Road Trip: Sofia (Day 4)

This is Part 4 of The Great Balkans Road Trip. If you’re new to the series you can start from the beginning here. I’m doing a circular tour of the Balkans with a solo travel company called Just You, starting in Romania, travelling through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia, ending up back in Romania two weeks later. Today, we’re in Sofia. Are you a bean chiller or a fork prodder? Now you may recall from Day 3 that there was a Bulgarian stand-off in the Astoria Grand Hotel restaurant last night, with our group staging a sit-in and the staff refusing to serve them. Meanwhile I had been smugly scoffing a two-course dinner and quaffing beer in a beer hall across town. Today it was my mission to get the goss on #Dinnergate. I grabbed my breakfast and joined some of the others at a table. Apparently our guide was in the wrong because he shouldn’t have recommended we eat in the hotel. They should have served them without complaint despite being understaffed and faced with a large…