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Our very first day in the country, and we drive south of Sofia to see the famous Rila Monastery. It did not dissappoint. It was gorgeous through and through. Even though there were more tourists here than any other in the entire country, it still evoked a sense of serenity and awe. One of [...] Continue reading WHS – Rila Monastery in Bulgaria 
Traveling around Bulgaria, it sounds like the people are always yelling at you, or maybe about you. I don’t speak Bulgarian, so I just never knew what they were saying. It’s funny, though, they were so friendly. I stopped all over the country meeting people, shaking their hands, commenting on their gorgeous horses. So, [...] Continue reading A Bulgarian Man…and his Horse 
For such a small country, Bulgaria has quite a few UNESCO World Heritage Sites and we hit as many as we could. I’ve already told you about Rila Monastery, Nessebar, and the Madara Rider. The other two we were able to visit were the Thracian tomb in Kazanluk and the Boyana Church outside of Sophia. [...] Continue reading Two UNESCO Sites and Sophia to Boot 
The fortress overlooking Velinko Turnovo. Bulgaria is full of quaint little charasmatic towns and Velinko Turnovo might just be the cutest. As we drove in, we stopped to talk to a shepherd with a small goat flock. He was right on the edge of town, and as we chatted with him, we could also [...] Continue reading The Best Restaurant in the Cutest Town 
Chicken wrapped around pork…something to cluck about! I really didn’t know what to expect as far as Bulgarian food goes. Maybe a cross between borsht, gyros, and kofte. To be honest, even though I was looking forward to trying it, I really didn’t have high expectations. After living in the Turkey, where the [...] Continue reading Who Let the Cows Out?! 
The walls of the fortress hide the massive size that it is. Leaving the coast, we headed north towards Varna, then inland towards Shumen. We had heard about Shumen over and over, because it produces one of the best beers in the country and it seemed like a good place to spend the [...] Continue reading A Shumen and a Horseman 
One of the many churches found in this quaint fishing village. After leaving Plovdiv, the roads were noticeably better, not good, but better. Our first stop on the Black Sea was Sozopol. We parked for free near the church, and just walked around. Since it’s completely off-season it was so quiet. We may have [...] Continue reading Black Sea Beauties After Melnick we wanted to drive north to Plovdiv. Eveline communicated to us not to go all the way back up the road and then cut over, but to go through the woods. According to her, we would have to go very slow over a very bad road with lots of potholes in it, but [...] Continue reading Potholes to Plovdiv Rozhen Monastery After we had experienced the hustle and bustle of Bulgaria’s number one tourist sight, the Rila monastery, we were in for a pleasant surprise upon entering the grounds of Rozhen. It was clear from the outside that it would not hold the splendor and expansiveness of its larger brother, but Rozhen still [...] Continue reading Serenity in Rozhen |
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