Cyrillic world

SOFIA.
I woke up at about 8:00. After having breakfast, I went out my hotel to get a train ticket to Belgrade.
It takes 30 minutes to the station on foot. I do not use buses and trams usually, because only by walking, I can feel the size of the city I visit. Anyway, streets were so wide, words are written in Cyrillic alphabet. I felt I was walking ex-communism country. Main streets were paved with Viennese yellow cobblestones and there were many yellow buildings.
There was the bus station of Sofia next to the train station. The train station was darker and more gloomy than the bus station.
At the train station I stood motionless in front of big timetable. All the destinations were written in Cyrillic alphabet. I just understood "P" to "R", "C" to "S", "H" to "N", reverse "N" to "I", etc...
I could understand "Beograd", but could not find "Bucharest". If there was a night train to Bucharest, I wanted to go there.
A woman on the international ticket counter of Rira understood English, I got a ticket to Belgrade of sleeping car. It cost 46 Lev.

On the way to the hotel from the station, Policemen asked me of showing my passport. I was first time to be asked by police abroad. I showed a copy of my passport, they said O.K immediately. However they did not understand English.

I checked out the hotel, it cost 35 Euro.
I went to Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. It is the largest Eastern Orthodox churches in the world.