Sol Nessebar Bay

... forever in time with your fellow traveler friends.

Yesterday marked another day where I wake up and the unthinkable is about to happen. Laying on a beach led to riding a horse in a bikini and then helping ourselves to a hotel pool for the final hours of the bright sun. I don't make this up.
Today we will get back in the car, back on the road. We will shake hands, part ways and I am about to set sail off the ...

... moj novcanik i poluprazna moja glava. Posao kao posao, mora se odraditi... mada kada ga radis malo duze, postajes robot koji ne razmislja. E tako je meni bilo ove godine. Vec vise nisam razmisljao sta pricam, kome pricam, ne nerviram se oko gluposti, ne zanimam se sa dodatnim poslom... Jednostavno koliko sam malo placen, toliko malo radim.

Nisam nesto bio odusevljen ovom ...

10th June

Plovdiv to Nessebar (on the Black Sea)

Sunny 30 degrees

We made our way out of Plovdiv through the city and then along a cobbled road where we saw another stork nest, this time on a church steeple. The drive to Nessebar was fairly easy with some motorways and reasonably wide roads. The passed huge fields of barley, sunflowers (not yet flowering) and vineyards. We arrived at Nessebar but found it is only open to residential traffic so had to park ...

... 1 and 2 pm in the 95 degree heat I haul a fully laden bike to two other hotels which cost more. There is one hotel which looks cheap but the reception is on the first floor and it looks unrefurbished. But as 50 levs is only £25 its a bit pointless really. I ride back and find the price is now 45 levs. The hotel is a mostly refurbished soviet era block. However it has two three person lifts to access the 14 rooms on each of the ten floors ...

... and wooden cabin style buildings. Of the major attractions are the ruins of the Old Bishopric which is also known as the Church of St Sophia. It was extremly busy at this site with lots of tourists taking photographs and small gypsy children trying to pickpocket unsuspecting tourists or trying out some scams. Walking around the town you seem to get higher and higher and can get some great views of the ...

... his place which was a bit yucky. Cement floors and a dingy little shower toilet combo and 4 single beds which he thought was a perk. We said we would have a think about it so he took us next door to his friends house and it was like the Taj Mahal with all the marble, double bed, TV and also cheaper. We took it. Spent the arvo walking around checking out the place. Had a pizza slice for tea and Greg tried the local tradition of mayo and tom sauce ...

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.

... to the red road involved long detours on that that seemed to pass every mountain peak between here and Gallipolli. The villages looked so remote that probably the only annual visitor was the Grim Reaper. How would they react to moi turning up in my best dusty lycra going "hija!"? Only one way to find out.... So, as I ground my way along the backroads I was increasingly flagged down by friendly locals who said "stop ...

Velki Preslav to Burgas Distance 162km Best bit: sun Worst bit: having to throw myself into the gutter 5 times today to avoid oncoming traffic!! Well, the Black Sea isnt black. Its kind of a rich blue with gentle waves. The sand feels good under my feet :)