Day 041 Calafat - Добри Дол

And yet another country: Bulgaria. Now all this confusing border crossings will become much rarer: From now on I will cross all countries in their full extend and the countries are getting bigger and bigger: Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran,...
There were some Firsts yesterday and today. Yesterday in Romania: the first time really really bad roads and the first time a lot of people cheering for me and children giving me high fives while I was riding along, especially in the evening when everyone in the villages was out on the street. Today after spending most of the day cycling around Vidin trying to find a Bulgarian mobile operator offering a prepaid card that works for internet for a reasonable price (successful at M-Tel) I had my next Firsts. After leaving Vidin I passed my first street side hookers, which is remarkable given the many border towns I crossed so far. After yesterdays experience with the lady of a less sinful profession they could not convince me to make use of their services. Ok, the decision would have been the same without yesterdays sadistic massage. I wonder why they are always dressed up like drag queens: that is pretty much the opposite of appealing to a straight guy - doesn't seem like a very good business model to me.
Later I passed a gypsy village with some really loud music playing from somewhere. While going up a hill I had the first children shouting 'Money Money!' at me. This is another thing I will have to get used to again. Luckily they were not yet of the rock-throwing-if-being-ignored-sort, so I safely arrived at a Motel near Dobry Dol run by a German/Bulgarian guy who just left Germany because in Bulgaria he could live more freely without such unnecessary things as Internet. Here I had dinner with the french couple who I knew from some days ago when we took the same ferry before entering the iron gate.