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Travel Blogs from Pamporovo
On to Bulgaria
Last night we had a welcome dinner and then basically went to bed. This morning we got up bright and early to prepare for our 8:30 departure for a bus trip to various places in Bulgaria. We had a brief bus tour of Rousse where the ship is docked. We learned that Bulgaria is the rose capital of the world and here I thought it was Pasadena who knew? We then travelled to Arbanasi where we visited Nativity Church which although it looks like not much ...
Veliko Tărnovo
... though. We had a great time in Turnovo. We visited the fortress which is kind of interesting, bought some pottery, drank the best tea of my life, and ate a ridiculous amount of shopska salata (Bulgarian for shopska salad, duh) from a balcony overlooking the old city. Bulgarian tomatoes will completely change your idea of what a good tomato tastes like. They are so good, they ruin all other tomatoes. The lowlight of our stay in Turnovo had ...
Veliko Tarnovo
... bulgares la veille, dans le village de Bozhentsi.
Nous décidons donc de ne pas nous attarder et d'aller jusqu’à Albanasi, où les maisons ressemblent beaucoup à celles de Bozhentsi, avec le coté touristique en plus mais surtout avec le charme et l’atmosphère du village en moins. Pour anecdote, nous avons assisté à l’arrivée hâtive d’un grand-père muni de ...
Notre coup de coeur bulgare
... rieur d’une grande maison où un feu de cheminée est allumé, elle nous vante la qualité de la cuisine d’une auberge et espère nous avoir convaincu à rester pour la nuit !
On décide dans un premier temps de rester manger ici pour gouter à la cuisine bulgare. Au menu : rakia (l’alcool local) servie chaude, cuite avec des tranches de pommes, salade aigre, poivrons farcis au yaourt (yaourt bulgare -très dense- cuisiné avec ...
May 15, 2012
... peppers and tomatoes mixed with ceranay cheese bits and herbs. For breakfast, there's bonitsa, which is a flakey bread roll with ceranay inside. There's also something that translates as Garden Savory. It's some kind of herby/salt mix that you can sprinkle on anything. We asked a handful of Bulgarians what the green flakes in the mix are, but none of them knew except to call it Garden Savory. It's really nice on pizza. Water out of the tap is fine to drink, but sometimes it ...