The last two days were very exciting because I haven’t been sent on a working trip soon and this is definitely something that can make your everyday routine a bit more interesting. I love traveling and long driving doesn’t tire me a lot. Giving the fact that I and my colleague had to visit a city that is about 5 hours away by car, gave us a great opportunity to see different locations. 

The city we visited is not that far away, but as we have to ride through the mountains and there are a lot of sharp turns, the traveling is relatively slow and requires a lot of time. 


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First we passed through Bansko, which is among the most famous ski destinations in Bulgaria, where we had a little snack. We didn’t have a lot of time, because there was a bit more distance to clear, and then we had to to a working task, which was our working target. The city we visited, or maybe it’s better to call it a village, is near the mountain as well. There were some very beautiful views from the rooftop of the factory, which was our working place. 


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The mountains here are about 15 kilometers away. We were lucky that it was not raining, so there were not difficulties in our working process. The next day we had to take the way back home and we decided to visit a very fancy and favorite place of me. It’s a craft brewery in Pazardzhik, which was roughly half the way back home. We arrived there at 13:00 and it was the perfect time to have lunch together with some very tasty craft beers.


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I know this brewery since the day it received all the documentation and certification in order to start functioning. It was maybe four or five years ago and the first year the nowadays restaurant was just an empty place with concrete floor and not having any decorations at all. 


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Now they have 8 taps, 7 of which have various beers running and the eight is left for non-alcoholic drinkers with some homemade lemonade. I and my colleague wanted to enjoy relatively light beers with our lunch, so we decided to have pale ales, which came at 5% alcohol content. 

The restaurant itself was opened about a year or so ago and includes very tasty and craft food. With craft food I mean that they do not have a long and diversified menu, but the plates that they include are very unique and tasty. I decided to have beef meatballs, and my colleague ordered a nice pre-flavored pork bits with fancy spices and flavoring. 

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Even the French fries were flavored with black and red pepper and they were very crunchy and a bit spicy. The portions were very big and we find it a bit hard to finish our order. 


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After that, we had a couple of hours left to our hometown and we stopped at a dam to take some more photos. Although the temperatures were relatively warmer lately, there was still a lot of ice on the surface of the water. 


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Finally, as I got back home, I enjoyed a nice IPA with local herbs, combined with some pretty flavorful hops. I got this beer from the Rhombus brewery, as they offer a 1 liter pet bottles with beer for home. I can say this was the greatest finish of these two days of traveling. Now, with my typical everyday routine I can just wait for the next trip. 

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Have a nice day and see you soon!
Cheers 😉