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Varna Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Varna, Bulgaria
Wedding in Varna
This is a top pick! My beautifull cousin Anna tied the knot with Boris in a folk ceremony in Varna, the summer capital of Bulgaria. It was a propper wedding! I was the made of honor and as such (without prior notice) was asked to participate in the enterntainment ...
Travelling through Romania & Bulgaria
This is a top pick! ... sad to think about all the people who had been killed in 1989. After nearly 2 weeks in Romania we crossed the border into Bulgaria and had an interesting 5 days in Veliko Tarnovo, the old capital. Vinnie, Paul and I stayed in a great little hostel run ...
Long-term winter travel - pros and cons
This is a top pick! I've had a few questions from readers about the practicalities and logistics of travelling through Arctic conditions and northern winters, and I know I was concerned about the extreme cold before I got there, so in the hope that it's useful for future ...
The smell of the Black Sea
This is a top pick! Varna, Bulgaria - Barry collected the ball on the outside of Bulgaria's penalty area. He sneaks in a cross to Gary Cahill, who chests the ball down and while losing his balance, hits a shot that deflects off the Bulgarian keeper into the far bottom ...
Black sea!
Our last city before Istanbul! Varna, on the Black sea coast of Bulgaria... Because our hostel was so sweet, we ended up spending an extra night here...the hostel staff helped us around town and to get our laundry done...they had a barbecue for us ...
Flip a Coin
... Spanish, so many similarities that Romanians can comprehend a significant amount, even without ever having formally studied the language. But Bulgaria ... intriguing, to say the least - I can't say I knew much of the country, almost nothing, ...
Leave takings
... and talk politics and books and travel and swap stories until we're the last ones in the place. Back on Maria Louisa Boulevard we say goodnight and goodbye and I walk back along dark and empty streets to the hotel on this my last night in ...
At last the Black Sea
Took a bus from the boat to the resort town of Varna so we could see and get wet in the Black Sea! The water was warm and there were many people on the beach enjoying the ...
The Black Sea, me mateys, ha-har, ha-har!
... that Romania was "the Mexico of Europe" and I could see exactly where he was coming from. I don't know what I expected from Bulgaria, but I thought it would be perhaps quieter, cleaner and calmer than Romania, so my first glimpse of the country was quite ...
A glimpse of a beach - Varna
... . And the drivers are always polite. I need to find these friends of mine who painted such an ugly picture of Bulgaria. The hotel in Varna definitely deserves a mention. I'd read good things about it in the reviews on Trip Advisor, or was it ...
Bulgaria
... a patch of the Yorkshire man's garden. It seems there are quite a lot of British citizens who now reside in Bulgaria. Attracted by the inexpensive land and housing, relative simple bureaucracy and in Ian's case,cheap alcohol. However sightings of ...
Down by the sea
... at Balaclava and Sevastopol. Not entirely surprising, as they were fighting on the side of the Turks who were still occupying Bulgaria at the time. Apparently, a town nearby erected a monument to commemorate the 700 or so Brits who died of cholera in ...
Backwards through Bulgaria
... and spouts a lot of pure Bulgarian my way. First thing that pops in my head is that this is somehow not the train to Varna at all. Fortunately, having mastered Bulgarian in the past five days, I say, 'Varna, da?' He taps my ticket again and says ...
Varna - Nikola (host) poszukiwany na gwalt!!
"Rano" (12tej) wybralismy sie w dalsza droge do Varny, pojechalismy autobusem, zeby sobie troche ulatwic sprawe. Tam zostalwilismy plecaki w przechowlni na dworcu i ruszylismy na miasto. Pierwsze co zrobilismy to kafejka internetowa i sprawdzenie czy ...
Wino Forever
... can appreciate whiling away the day on various terraces, enjoying a cold beer, a cappuccino (both putrid and killer), and a nice meal (both mediocre and excellent). Varna hasn't been the best of Bulgaria so far, but today still rocked! ...
Varna, Bulgaria
Hi all. Sorry it has taken me a little longer to send you an update this time. I arrived in Varna last week which is a beach town in Bulgaria, so instead of spendıng tıme sıttıng in an internet cafe, İ sat myself down on a sunbed and ...
On the Black Sea, Bulgaria
... swimming in the browny green opaque water or finding cigarette butts scattered throughout the coarse sand. The town of Varna is a strange collision of cultures. From ancient ruins of Roman baths to Ottoman influenced architecture and Orthodox churches ...
At last, Varna, Bulgaria
Finally got to Varna and caught up with Damyan, though was tiuch n go as my mobile battery was just about flat and \damyan did not yet know where the bus would drop me at. Finally we meet up, and we head back to his place, say hello to his parents, and ...
Bulgaria
... been in Bulgaria for a few weeks and the leaves were growing stale. It was not what most people would call pretty. Bulgaria, we read, was a country that openly welcomed and embraced socialism. "Seeing the beauty of similarity," as Josh put it. Sophia ...
Black sea coast, beach bars and too many flies...
Chapter Summary Bulgaria Varna city tour 04 Sept, Sunday Start point: 2 Mai End point: Galata, Varna Via: Varna Odom(Km): 132.10 Moving(hrs.mim): 7.28 Ave(Km/h): 17.7 Total Ascent(m): 1066 Max Altitude(m) 233 ...
Varna verbatim
... way, the great blue and white pile that used to be the Bulraian Navy's officers club, an Armenian church and school (Bulgaria, no friends of the Ottomans, welcomed many Armenian refugees during the genocide perpetrated by the Turks prior to WWI), and the ...
Sofia and Varna Bulgaria
Relaxing is the best word to describe what we have been doing lately. Since arriving in Bulgaria have decided to slow down a bit. We have been travelling for over 2 and a half months now and I think the best thing to do is just rest for a while and ...
Catching some rays..
... and pampering. Germans are as demanding as the British and Irish when it comes to short breaks in the sun and it's easy to walk into a booking office in Cologne airport same day and fly off to a resort. Why Bulgaria? First on the list. Why ...
Pierwsza noc w namiocie na plazy
W zwiazku z tym, ze kemping „Cosmos” okazal sie slepym zaulkiem dla hitchhikerow postanowilismy do najblizszej miejscowosci (Tavarna) dojechac busem. Okazalo sie (a jakze!), ze w tym dniu akurat jest w niej odpust. Zjadlem jakas shoarme, ...
Finally reach Black Sea Coast
After 6 hours' bus, finally I reached Varna. So now I am officially traveled from the Adriatic Sea to Black Sea and crossed the Balkan Penisula from west to ...
Mount Olympus and Egirdir
We went to Mount Olympus which is a huge backpackers hangout and it reminded Deb and I of the kind of place that we would have loved to hang out in 25 years ago. There are tree houses everywhere, we upgraded after the first night. The place is famous for ...
Roamin' Romania beats Bulgaria (but barely)
... proposition. The cinema is our other link to the outside world. We managed to catch Stepford Wives the other night in Varna, Bulgaria. However, a Bulgarian's idea of a night at the cinema is a bit more all encompassing than their Western peers. It ...