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Stuart and I ventured into the Rila Mountains to visit Bulgaria’s most famous monastery. Founded in the 10th century by a hermit called Ivan, it’s an extraordinary mix of religious devotion, history and architecture. Beautifully ornate, gloriously photogenic and rather more impressive than your average Sunday service. Even the monks clearly had an eye for interior design.
#RilaMonastery #Bulgaria #Travel
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Having seen the villains, I am definitely #TeamDoom
🗡️💪🧙 🪄✨🔮🧪❇️🧩🦠🟩🟢✅🔫📗🍏
#Doomsday #AvengersDoomsday
Stuart and I went exploring Bulgaria’s second city, Plovdiv. Where the Romans clearly had an eye for property; a spectacular Ancient theatre, a buried Roman stadium, cobbled streets aplenty, colourful Bulgarian Revival houses, the Hisar Kapia arch, and the hilltop views from Nebet Tepe. Add the charming Kapana quarter and a rather ridiculous amount of history.
A city that has been around for 6,000 years and still manages to look rather fabulous.
#Plovdiv #Bulgaria #Travel
Stuart and I hit the pavements with Slavyan on the @freesofiatour
From Roman ruins & mosques to synagogues, palaces & grand old churches, we got the full historical immersion. Slavyan was brilliantly knowledgeable & very entertaining.
Nineteen sights in two hours. Highly recommended.
#Sofia #Bulgaria #FreeSofiaTour
Last Friday night Stuart and I went to see Cloud 9 at the Lyttelton Theatre in London’s glitzy South Bank.
Caryl Churchill’s colonial patriarchy meets 1970s sexual liberation. Gender, power and identity get a thoroughly entertaining shake up. Rebecca Humphries, Eloka Ivo, Tom Mothersdale, Charlotte Ritchie, Ellen Robertson, Stuart Thompson and Sam Troughton shine.
Second act is better than the first.
At 2hrs 50mins, occasionally is tests the elasticity of one’s posterior though.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Cloud9 #CarylChurchill #NationalTheatre
One of those afternoons when Arsenal made hard work of something that really shouldn’t have been. Hull dug in, chances came and went, we should have had a pen, and then Captain Ødegaard popped up on 72 minutes to save everyone’s blood pressure.
Five league wins on the bounce, six points clear and City beaten by Forest. Lovely stuff.
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal @HullCity #ARSHUL🥅 #COYG #AFC #MartinOdegaard
