Hera Sozopol

Moving down the Bulgarian-Black-Sea coast, hotel complexes were sprawling their way horizontally and vertically, in the same way their concrete cousins in Benidorm had done in the seventies and eighties.

Between the wannabe resorts I seized my nightly land on cliff tops, coves and in woodland. One night I camped close to a little hut which housed a very special and rare family, they were a ...

... of Varna with my new Irish friends. The stories will be pretty amazing. I can already feel it.

Lastly - on a side note, there is another pure distinction that I am not in the United States. . Like coca cola machines, there are instant cappuccino/ espresso machines that give you a cup of coffee for about 30 cents. In the finest restaurants in all of America, I have never had a better espresso!

Viva Europa!

... osim sto sam usavrsio bugarski jezik. Posla nema, samim tim nema ni para. Ok, onda sam odlucio da iskoristim slobodno vreme... Izlasci, upoznavanje... nesto sto nikada ne moze da dosadi. Plaza, more, Sunce i zabava. Odlican nacin da se iskoristi slobodno vreme.

Napokon da se zavrsilo ovo leto. Postalo je malo monotono...
Do sledeceg putovanja...
Dovijdene na v sichki.

... Palace. Nessebar as well as being picturesque is Souvenir Central with a variety of shops and cafes lining the pretty streets. It is located on a small rocky isthmus in the Black Sea , is a UNESCO World Heritage site and dates back to 3000 BC. We love it here and spent the afternoon wandering about enjoying the town. Later we had dinner on our balcony, accompanied by Bulgarian Beer and Bulgarian Wine, and then went for a walk along the waterside in the cool of the evening.

... here is all over the place; comfort and standards are only vaguely related with some hotels charging in euro's and converting at 1:1 (its actually 2:1). Things may just be put in the room to raise revenue without actually functioning. Anyway it was was warm as i left but not too bad. The first task was to find the correct road out of Sliven. There were basically three roads heading south and I needed to find the right one. The sign hinted at the ...

While staying on Bulgaria's surprisingly stunning Black Sea coast, I took a trip to the nearby local jewel of Nessebar. Nessebar is a pictureque and small town with thousands of years of history under its belt. It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site and is more traditionally Bulgarian than the neighbouring beach resorts although some of its charm is lost by the huge number of tourists and souvenir ...

... for my go the tea time crowd were beginning to trickle in and we knew our time here was limited. Packed it up and went out for tea where we tried to go another sach but found the pork and chicken to be pretty much the same with a frozen vegetable mix but it was hot and tasty so no big complaints. Tried to listen into the festival band but it was all enclosed with bouncers stopping you looking in the sides so gave it up and listened to it from ...

Burgas was hosting the first ever MTV Spirit of Burgas festival with Groove Armada, Koseen, Ministry of Sound etc. It was situated on the beach, had an electric atmosphere, great music and was bouncing! All for £20 as well. If you happen to see the festival on MTV you will probably see me & G. Aside from the festival there is nothing happening in Burgas.

Sunny Beach is a holiday resort on the coast of Bulgaria. It's basically sunbathe all day and booze all night. Lots of British, Sweedish, Norwegian, Dutch and German tourists. Not the nicest place in the world but good for a chill out and a few nights on the lash.

... The irony was, that eventually, a couple of sweaty and bumpy hours later, I popped out of the forest onto the red road. It was big, fast and devoid of any traffic. My overnight stop on the border in Malko Tarnovo turned out to be a brand new hobby hotel built by the local architect. I had a dip in the pool, watch a bit of telly on the plasma tv in my room, sat in the garden with a beer while the sun set. Bliss. And all for £30.