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Roel & Eugenie of
www.takeusanywhere.com
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About Roel & Eugenie...
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| Waiting for the ferry to Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua Photo: @takeusanywhere |
We’re Roel and Eugénie. We met each other in
1988 while studying in Groningen, a small student city in the north of the
Netherlands where we still work and live. Eugénie is a health care worker, Roel
is a freelance writer. We got married on one of our travels, in 2004 in Sri
Lanka. The people at the 4-star resort we’d booked a marriage package at were a
little surprised to see two disheveled looking backpackers walking through
their gate. A week after we’d left the country the devastating Christmas day tsunami
hit the hotel.
We regret we didn’t travel more when we
were younger, but we’ve been making up for lost (travel) time in the past 20
years. Despite full time jobs we’ve
managed to visit 70+ countries thus far. When we really started traveling to
faraway destinations in 1996, contact with home was by phone and later e-mail.
When blogging platforms popped up on the internet we started using
these to share our travel adventures in Dutch to keep family and friends
informed. Many other people found our stories there too. In January 2016 we took it to the next level:
our own travel blog. Now we’re dreaming
about traveling full time, but are trying to figure out how.
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| Rila Monastery Photo: @takeusanywhere |
In our opinion the most amazing sight in Bulgaria is without a doubt the Rila monastery. Tucked away in the southwestern Rila Mountains this beautiful monastery is the most important cultural, architectural and historical monument in the country. You’ll recognize it from the backside of the 1 lev banknote.
The monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila, the full
official name of Rila Monastery, was founded in the tenth century and has been
a functioning monastery ever since. Most people get here on a day tour from
Sofia (which is 2,5 hours each way) causing it to be rather crowded in the
middle of the day. We overnighted in a basic hotel just behind the monastery,
which was ideal to experience the monastery in peace at the end of the day and
early in the morning.
The superb Nativity of the Virgin Church in
the center of the courtyard is the absolute highlight of the monastery. The
black, red and white striped church with its three golden domes is adorned by
splendidly vivid frescoes on its outside walls. Surrounding the courtyard the
outside walls consist of four levels of balconies with monastic cells,
storerooms, refectory and kitchen, as well as two small museums and a post
office.
But as the saying goes: a picture tells more
than a thousand words……
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Rila Monastery
Photo: @takeusanywhere
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Rila Monastery
Photo: @takeusanywhere
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