It's
a feast, it's a holiday, everyone is going here, there, somewhere, everywhere, so
I said to myself that I should move for some days from the city and where to-in
Bansko, they say it’s like this, it's like that (to me it looked neither like
this, nor like that and frankly speaking, it didn’t look like anything, but whatever,
I don’t like to begin negatively from the start).
At the very beginning let me say
that I will not mention the name of a travel agency or carrier, and even the
name of the hotel in Bansko, ‘cause someone could say: here, he is doing a
negative campaign.
We
headed for Bitola early in the morning at 3:30. The Bitola part of the group joined
us there too, and oops, the driver made us happy telling that we must
immediately go in the garage-the hose from the cooler has burst. To me, as a non-driver,
it looks very strange that a professional driver starts a journey with an unverified
and defective vehicle, but on the other hand, when would I enter a garage and when
would I be on a canal with about thirty co-travellers (or co-sufferers) if this
did not happen? Well, after about an hour and a half, we continued, collecting
passengers from Prilep and other places who were waiting in the cold, unlike
us, who were lucky enough to sit in warm, in the bus on the canal in the
garage!
And, to shorten, after the
passengers' delivery to other places and hotels, we finally arrived in our
"all inclusive" hotel with 4 (and with letters: FOUR) stars where we were
served for the lunch from what has left from yesterday or from breakfast (I
thought so until I was convinced that every day is more or less the same). So
but how, as it suits to the "all inclusive" 4-star hotel, as it stood
in the offer.
The rooms were relatively large, but
with old, uncomfortable furniture, unclean, everything as it fits into the
"all inclusive" 4-star hotel.
The pool was a special story, the
water was cold, it was dirty, the room was unheated so that every entry into it
was at your own risk, luckily I entered only once and, behold, а miracle, I
did not get а cold.
The town itself, or the village, I
do not know in which category to place it, did not impress me at all. One
street with shops, cafes, a church, a restaurant, a market, a gallery of icons
that, despite all my persistence, always remained closed; it was mainly what I
saw in Bansko.
But it's not so black as it looks
like written above, I bought a beautiful and cheap jacket of genuine leather;
it's the nicest thing after which I will remember Bansko.
And they say that it was nice in
Bansko, especially in the winter, on the ski slopes of the Pirin Mountain, but
I leave it to the lovers of snow and winter sports, and to me as to a proven
lover of the beautiful nature, the sun, bathing in a lake or sea, my Ohrid is
much more beautiful, and why not any other hotter and more beautiful
destination than Bansko!
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| 6:28 am, we in the bus, the bus on a canal in the garage, still not moved from Bitola |
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The entrance to our "all inclusive" hotel with 4 (four) stars
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| View to one of the peaks of the Pirin Mountain |
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| The river that runs through Bansko, near our "all inclusive" hotel with 4 (four) stars |
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| View from the terrace of our room |
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| We walk from the hotel to the center of Bansko |
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| At the streets of Bansko |
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| Tavern or a hotel in the only interesting street |
