Yesterday morning we left our disused gas station camping spot in a blanketing mist and spent much of the morning driving through a grey haze. It was quite late into the day before the sun finally made its appearance.

Our destination was a town called Veliko Tarnovo and we understood from internet research that there were two campground in the area. We selected one called Trinity Rocks Farm a little north of the town and made our way there.

We discovered that Trinity Rocks was owned and run by an English expat named Cliff who had decided on this area of Bulgaria as a place to settle because of the local Rock Climbing.

The campground and its access road was quite a squeeze for our truck but we eventually got into a nice spot right next to the river. Though it required a bit of lifting of electrical wires for that to eventuate.

We were pleased to find that the camp had electricity, wifi, hot showers (though the room was not heated and at this time of year that is becoming more of an issue) and dump facilities.

This morning we organized a taxi to take us into Veliko Tarnovo so that we could do some exploring, and an interesting little town it proved to be. Once a capital of Bulgaria it has a very impressive fort and castle and a very quaint old quarter.

After exhausting ourselves exploring we grabbed another taxi back to the campground. The iPad and our mapping program is proving invaluable in this "take a taxi home" exercise as we can simply show the taxi driver where we want to go on the map.