We first went to an apartment complex, where the company's offices were located. I thought it was strange the the office of a major company being in an apartment flat, but apparently they are building a new building strictly for the business somewhere. Mr. Stoimenov spoke to us about his role and what FIAL does. He spoke in Bulgarian the whole time, and Dr. Elenkov translated. After his speech, we went to his winery, which was a two hour bus ride away. We had some wine and laughing cow cheese.
After the visit we went to a small town fr lunch. The ride was pretty amazing, as we were nestled in the valley between the Balkans and another huge mountain range. We got to this restaurant at the foot of the Balkans and it is probably the nicest restaurants I have ever eaten at! We had 5 courses of food! We were put in an akward position because we were expected to eat all 5 courses and pay for the entire meal, even if we didn't touch the food. The meal was more expensive than most of us had budgeted for a couple of days...
So the first course we had a salad with iceberg lettuce, duck meat, parmesan cheese, and small orange slices with a vinaigrette dressing. The second course was uncooked salmon with mixed minced veges underneath. It was ok, but the fish would have been much better if it was uncooked! Third, we had goose livers were alright. They tasted pretty good, but knowing they were livers and the texture and consitency made it disgusting. Our last meat course was pork sirloin which was a little dry, but pretty good. The last course of our meal was an amazing slice of cake. It was a triple layered while cake, one of which was a peach layer! We also had fruit purees to drink, mine was peach. This meal would have been over $100 in USA, but was only 40 lev (around $33)!
We drove back with the mountains on each side only to be frustrated with our computers for 45 minutes. Bulgarian wi-fi is not very good...Good day overall though!
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