Info and travel hints for BBCAC-4 participants • Please kindly arrange your visa, travel schedule and report it to us now. • Please check the number of your lecture or poster and its scheduled time. • Poster size 80 cm (width) x 100 cm (height). • Plenary lectures 40 min, Power Point presentation. • Oral presentations 20 min, Power Point presentation. • Please bring a copy of your fee transfer document. • Students please bring a copy of your student status proof document. • Participants who have not made their bank transfer until now may pay cash during registration (preferably in BGN but will be acceptable as well; no credit cards for registration payment). You will obtain a receipt for your payment (signed and stamped original). • You will obtain during registration a receipt for your bank transfer (signed and stamped original). • Changes in program due to late cancellations will be announced on 19 th September, Wednesday afternoon In Bulgarian Sunny Beach is "Slanchev Bryag". The conference site is just at the South part of SB, around a small river shown on map, not far from the road Burgas-Varna or Nessebar-Varna, ca. 15 km from Sarafovo. There are many busses Varna-SB and Varna-Burgas. http://sunnybeach-bg.com http://www.map-guide.bg/more_SunnyBeach.htm http://www.bulgariandreams.com/maps/map_sunnybeacharea.gif

Airways www.hemusair.bg www.air.bg

Sofia Airport www.-airport.bg

Burgas Airport http://www.bourgas- airport.com/l_en/index.php?PHPSESSID=3006f402c960f81f981346a516e755f8 http://www.bourgas-airport.com/l_bg/map.php

Rent-a-car www.budget.bg car rental in BG www.avtorent.com http://rent.sofiaauto.bg www.rentacar.motopfohe.bg car rental in BG www.choice-rent.bg

Examples of timetables (subject to change, please check at Information desks)

Sofia-Burgas trains (pre-paid ticket required before starting travel) 06:30 (departure) – 13:19 (arrival) 07:20 (departure) – 14:30 (arrival) 10:30 (departure) – 18:40 (arrival) 13:30 (departure) – 21:10 (arrival) 22:15 (departure) – 06:22 (arrival) 15:55 (departure) – 22:19 (arrival) 23:00 (departure) – 06:58 (arrival)

Burgas – Sofia trains (pre-paid ticket required before starting travel) 05:25 (departure) – 11:50 (arrival) 06:00 (departure) – 13:50 (arrival) 10:40 (departure) – 18:40 (arrival) 14:20 (departure) – 21:20 (arrival) 15:30 (departure) – 22:30 (arrival) 21:55 (departure) – 06:05 (arrival) 22:35 (departure) – 06:28 (arrival)

Sofia-Burgas buses (operated by various companies; in most cases ticket may be bought directly from bus driver, please ask driver; approx. price ca. 20 BGN one way) 0:00, 0:45, 6:10, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:45, 17:00, 18:00, 20:30, 22:15, 22:30, 23:00

Train Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ in Bulgarian) http://bdz.creato.biz/en

“Rila” Travel Office (for train travel) http://www.bdz-rila.com/ -

Central bus station, Sofia (near to the Central Railway station) http://www.centralnaavtogara.bg

National and international bus lines http://businfobg.com/en/

National bus lines (in Bulgarian) http://avtogari.info/sofia.php http://etapgroup.com/grup/en/ GROUP bus http://www.biomet-bg.com/ BIOMET bus

Bus station, Burgas http://mbusexpres.hit.bg/ -(in Bulgarian)

Local travel, Burgas http://www.bourgas.net/local/

General travel info, http://www.travel-bulgaria.com/

Taxi (yellow cab, please check fare – should be written on side windows – generally <0.7 BGN/km during daytime)

Mini-bus in Sofia (typical fare is 1.5 BGN per person, tickets bought from the driver)

Local city transport by tram, bus and trolleybus (0.70 BGN; tickets should be bought beforehand and perforated in the vehicle)

Telephones BG country code 359 Sofia code 02 Burgas code 056 Nessebar & Sunny Beach code 0554 Fire 160 Medical emergency 150 Police 166 Telephone number enquiry 130 www.goldenpages.bg

Weather www.meteo.bg www.tvmet.bg/wap

Maps http://www.sofia.bg/map.asp http://www.map-guide.bg/more_SunnyBeach.htm http://www.bulgariandreams.com/maps/map_sunnybeacharea.gif