Bulgaria Travel Blogs

‘To be honest pal, I’m sure I’ve just been pretty lucky.  I dunno.  But I can say that after nearly a year on the road, nothing too bad or too strange has happened to me.  No theft or personal harm.  But I guess one person’s experience is totally different to the next’…

Alright, Im going to keep this one short as it was probably the longest and most tiring of all! I love weddings and all...and tradition is awesome! But.....enough is enough! A whole day of traditions and you can easily get sick! :-) The wedding was beautiful, unfortunately I was extremely sick by…

It has been over 11 years since I returned to Bulgaria. The last time I visited my homecountry I was 12 years old and swore that I will not return until I was married....as I had a problem with overbaring family that wouldnt let me enjoy my vacation. So....now that I was married, I made the trip ba…

The train to Bulgaria was more what Zvonka remembered of eastern European trains... ancient and graffiti-covered, it rolled out of Belgrade late that night. We settled into chocolate colored seats that had been soaking up the sweat of travelers in this sweltering compartment since maybe the late se…

  The last day had arrived. We’ve been to Nesebar again by bus and we went back by the boat. When we met Rogier & Marleen they told us the story about all the Hitler stuff in Nesebar. First we did not recognize it but now we searched for it, well it was not that difficult. There are onl…

This was our second trip back to Sofia. As we had already seen everything, we realised once we got there that we actually had nothing to do. So we wandered round the shops, dribbling at all the lovely things we could buy, knowing that we could never afford them, sitting in cafes drinking ridicu…

Historia de Sofia  (copiado de Wikipedia) Es la tercera capital europea más antigua, ya que está habitada desde el siglo XVIII adC. Ha tenido muchos nombres, y los restos de las antiguas ciudades todavía pueden verse. Sofía fue originalmente un asentamiento tracio llamado Serdica (d…

And continuing our tour of internet cafes, we have found that all of them are full of teenagers playing on-line games.  So far I haven't seen anybody playing my favorite but they do have Diablo II here.  Time for lunch and we'll try to upload the real blog again tomorrow or the next day&n…

If you like to write your travel story, make sure you take your own writing pad with you! Wherever we went, we were not able to buy one. Eventually we had to ask for paper in the receptionroom of our hotel. Which they only use for their Fax machine. I still wonder where the children in Bulgaria buy…

My expectations of Bulgaria really were that it, probably, wouldn't be that different from Romania, given it proximity. Boy, was I wrong. The character of Bulgaria is as different as it's natural beauty. Equal to the beauty was the friendliness of the people. They were always glad to help out in any way they could. I was also wowed by the ancient monastaries, the mountain hamlets, castles, coastal villages, mosques, and so much more.

I lost my mind & couldn't be happier! Plan was 6 days-17 countries; ended up 15 countries. Auto trek began in Pula, Croatia Sat. Sept 22, just after Ireland TravBuddy Get-Together. 1st day: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia (overnight in Ljubljana) 2nd: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland (overnight in Krakow) 3rd: Ukraine, Romania (overnight in Transylvania) 4th: Bulgaria, Macedonia (overnight in Skopje) 5th: Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia (overnight in Split) 6th: Back to Pula

Photo from my time in Sofia, Bulgaria

I 've dreamed about and planned this journey for 6 months. To be honest, I didn't know if everything will be OK, if everything's going well. But yes! I nervous waited for 3rd september... In a period between day when I decided and made a reservation and the beginning of september I managed to…

Yesterday evening I arrived in my hotel after midnight and went straight to bed.  Today was the first day I saw Sofia by daylight.  On the way from the office to the hotel  there was a photo exposition on a pedestrians bridge. The exposition was called  "The Earth From Abo…

As morning arrived we were approaching Nessebur in Bulgaria. It was a small harbor at the city of Nessebur. The town sits on a small rocky island connected by a man-made isthmus to the mainland. It is a Unesco world heritage site. First settled by the Tracians in about 3000 BC. Greeks also came…