Geolog Hotel Varna

... simple bureaucracy and in Ian's case,cheap alcohol. However sightings of the aforementioned Brits are about as common as that of the long-necked-Bulgarian-crocodile shrew. It would appear that satellite television, supermarkets and a U.K income prevent them from coming out to play.<br><br>Ian and his good-natured Rottweiler arrived in November and were<br>quickly joined by a deaf Dalmatian called D.D. D.D was to be shot due<br>to her deafness, though with the amount of ...

... such lofty tourist status. We walked up to the horseman on a zigzag path and after a talk at the site and the taking of photos descended by steep stairs. Our lunch was at a nearby home in the village where we were greeted by a fellow playing the accordion and his co-musician on a Bulgarian version of the bagpipes with a pigskin bladder for the air reservoir. <br>The hosts had a loaf of bread from which we broke pieces at the door and a ...

I met Albena last Christmas, she is married to Rick Harper a Washington National Guard Soldier and contractor at Fort Lewis. They had had moved from Virgina, and Albena was not yet working and had not met many people.<br><br>She grew up in the beautiful coastal city of Varna Bulgaria, and all her family was still ...

A very nice place and quiet resort, is ideal target for family with kids, food and drinks very cheap and the people are friendly. About the security reasons I saw all the time the officers from Security companies -armed- and Police patrols on the street, here you need just to choose the proper location and enjoy the time.<br>

... where the hot, fresh water and the cold(ish) Salty water meet, and the kiddos splash around and the old people soak their bones. Cute. There is also a natural hot bath along at the end of the beach where I went one night for a soak. Its the little things in life. <br><br>A strange tradition that we stumbled on in Varna is called July Morning, which is based on a song by Uriah Heap by the same name. Apparently, since the end of communism, everyone in Varna, and along the ...

... strong of a word, the door was opened by someone. Into the common room we finally found ourselves, "Hi". No answer from the locals. Well great this seems like a really great place. In writing you may not be able to tell that this was sarcasm. Both toilet/showers were busy so even though we both needed to go to the bathroom we had to wait to use the filthy things. Finally Dave the owner showed up ...

... to stay for a while and so rented our umbrella ($6A) and enjoyed a couple of hours swimming and relaxing by the Black Sea. The whole area is the Surfers Paradise of Bulgaria with massive high rise luxury resorts, carnival rides, allocated beach areas, parasailing and masses of cafe&#8217;s, bars and restaurants. Later we walked back to the hotel and had a swim in the pool before ordering a pizza to have on our balcony.

Due to the Cold War being over and the world seems to a much more settled place now, Russia has an over abundance of FSB officers with nothing to do. So, as not to have them wandering about the workplace with nothing to do, the Russian Government has rented out these ...

... comes. I did read that because God created us in His image, that to be creative and to create are elements to being like God. Now of course, that does not mean that we all have to make art. You can create a child, etc. and still be in the likeness of God. I just cannot grasp sometimes how humans come up with technologies and developments that seem impossible! Anyway, I laughed to/at myself thinking about how people from thousands of years BC created pottery like those I made in my ...

... it. The countries are not that dissimilar, both are packed with picturesque castle ruins, mountains, monasteries and medieval town squares. However, what binds these countries more than anything else is their ruling class, and we're not talking blue-blood inbreds here, we're talking canines... hundreds of thousands of them. During the communist era, forced urbanisation led people to ditch their dogs in the streets which are now run by the mutts. We saw the beginning of this process ...