Any good road trip has snacks.

On Sunday morning in Belogradchik when we were looking for coffee and something to eat for breakfast A. spotted these Bulgarian chocolates in a little neighborhood shop--Rodopa and another similar chocolate with white vanilla-like filling. I can't remember the name of the other chocolate.

<em>Ops</em>.
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So we bought chocolates, two coffees, some packaged croissants, water and some cookies by the gram.

Turns out 100 grams of cookies is a lot more than I'd have guessed. I'm glad I didn't order 500 grams like a standard shopska salad.<!--more-->

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I'd really been hoping for some banititsa but no luck. Instead, I ate a crescent moon shaped cookie with ground almonds in it covered with powder sugar. Then I drank my espresso out of a plastic cup. On the road, I ate half of each chocolate.
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I like the Rodopa chocolate best. It almost reminds me a reese's peanut butter cup in terms of the texture and constancy of the candy. The big difference is that the filling is not peanut butter but something kind of chocolate like.
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Before we got to Magurata cave, I ate a croissant. I almost ate the other half of the Rodopa candy too but A. tells me that I can find it in Sofia so I didn't. That seemed like the nice thing to do.

I am nice<em> sometimes</em>.

Now that I've typed all of this, I can't help but wonder if I should share these things. Oh well. What's done is done.