Not a lot to tell today. We spent our first night in Sofia at the Casa Farrari where we always stay. This morning we left there and spent the day traveling to the valley of the roses. This is a valley where roses grow so well that the French perfume makers have been coming here since the 1870s to buy the rose oil that is produced here. It is the basis for all of the expensive perfumes and this is the only place in the world where it grows. Unfortunately, most of the roses were harvested over the past two weeks so there was not much left for us to see.
We then visited a couple of tombs that have been uncovered that date back to the third century B.C. For those that don't know, Bulgaria is a very old part of Europe with a lot of Roman and even pre-Roman ruins around. We also visited a large Russian Orthodox church that was built by the Russians after they freed Bulgaria from the Ottoman Turks. It was a mixture of Russian and Asian architecture and quite unique.
Tomorrow we will preach at the Bridge Church of God here in Stara Zagora and then off for more sights and to visit some friends in a town about 80 miles from here. We are enjoying the leisurely pace, although it does feel a bit strange not to be going at our usual frantic pace.
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