Enjoy superb views of the Aegean Sea from this comfortable hotel. Built on the outskirts of Mykonos, in the area surrounding the Fine Arts School, Sofia Village rests in a peaceful... more...location just 400 metres from town.
Enjoy superb views of the Aegean Sea from this comfortable hotel. Built on the outskirts ... more
of Mykonos, in the area surrounding the Fine Arts School, Sofia Village rests in a peaceful location just 400 metres from town. You can relax in the lovely garden ...
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Advantages: Not too busy, good value for money, green Disadvantages: Not many "attractions", not much for children
Our visit to Sofia didn't get off to an auspicious start. The other half spent the eve of the trip throwing up in the only bathroom of a hostel in Veliko Tarnovo and we would have stayed there another day to permit his recuperation had we not already reserved and paid for our tickets to the capital. By the following day I was off my food and the day after that I was availing myself of the bathroom facilities, making sure I got my moneys worth!
I suppose the ill thing was due - almost three months of rich food, too much alcohol, late nights and living life to the full was bound to catch up with us sooner or later. All of which begs the question - what exactly do two invalids get up to for three days in Sofia?
ATTRACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Sofia is a rather compact city so, while it has trams and a short underground line, weekend ...
Advantages: Great large town, that's compact and safe to explore Disadvantages: Probably only enough for a weekend; the Cyrillic language
For the first time theediscerning is hereby dabbling in foreign climes - no, not a first trip abroad, but a debut excursion into the esteemed realm of Ciao travel writers. That's what these competition thingies are for, of course.
To start with, a smallish city both tucked away in the middle of Eastern Europe's old Soviet / Warsaw Pact areas, yet far enough away from us in the UK to have some of the mystery and oddity the near east brings - Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
You will increasingly see this as a location for a long weekend holiday, for it is yet another fine eastern European city falling under the tourism industry's eye. With Bulgaria possibly entering the Eurozone in 2007, the urge is to go before it all gets changed.
The history of the country is far too complex to summarise here, but just one corner of Sofia ...
theediscerning 27.08.2005
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Advantages: Atmosphere. Well produced - Escapist Disadvantages: Story line too unrealistic for me
Last week I came across one of those special offers in HMV (4 DVds for £20). It was end of the season sale and I picked up a film called "The Village" just to make up the numbers. It struck me as being some sort of clichéd horror film from the blurb on the cover and I didn't expect to be watching it in the very near future. But it was one of those DVDs that keep popping up every time I looked through my shelf of dozens of other unwatched movies. Well the other evening, it popped up again and I just put it in the machine without giving it too much thought. As I wasn't in the mood for thinking anyway, it would probably be an ideal film.
As we got into the film, enter the monster, well, a glimpse of it. It was supposed to be scaring me but even my wife, who makes me jump out of my skin with her sudden screams in scary movies, remained ...
derek-j-a 06.10.2005 (07.10.2005)
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Product Information for "Sofia Village, Mýkonos" »
Product details
Long Name
Sofia Village
Rooms
30
Type
Hotel
Address
Above the Art School, 84600 Mıkonos, Greece
Street
Above the Art School
Post Code
84600
City
Mıkonos
Country
Greece
Continent
Europe
Manufacturer's product description
Enjoy superb views of the Aegean Sea from this comfortable hotel. Built on the outskirts of Mykonos, in the area surrounding the Fine Arts School, Sofia Village rests in a peaceful location just 400 metres from town.
