We were recently down visiting friends who live close to Chirpan and decided to pop along and see what was happening at the excavation of a Thracian burial mound in the area. We did not expect to be able to see much and were all ready to be told to .. Read More
Sightseeing | 10.15.10 | No Comments
Located just 10km from Shumen, there is a range of spectacular cliffs which show signs of human occupancy going back to the third century B.C. The main attraction is of course the Madara Horseman, a carving of a horseman killing a lion with his grey.. Read More
Sightseeing | 10.4.10 | No Comments
This was somewhere I had been meaning to visit for a while, as I had read it was a spectacular cliff jutting out into the Black Sea and covered with the ruins of an ancient fortress. We made the forty minute or so trip from Varna, past Balchik to.. Read More
Sightseeing | 09.21.10 | No Comments
Just outside Varna, on the old Devnya road which passes the airport, there is the geological wonder known as the ‘Stone Forest’. On either side of the old A2 road heading west out of Varna, around 18km outside the city, you will see scrub land.. Read More
Sightseeing | 08.16.10 | No Comments
While staying in Varna for a few days we visited the ruins of Aladzha Monastery and Catacombs, half way between Varna and Golden Sands. These caves, set high into a cliff are thought to first have been occupied in the Stone Ages by ‘pygmies’ and .. Read More
Sightseeing | 08.1.10 | No Comments
Now back in Bulgaria for the summer, we decided to head to the Black Sea Coast for a few days. We had a house to visit and a garden to clear around Yambol, so once that job was completed we carried on to the coast and headed for Sozopol. Accordin.. Read More
Life in Bulgaria, Sightseeing | 07.12.10 | No Comments
The other weekend we decided to head up Kotel way. We left Stara Zagora around 5pm and headed towards Sliven in search of the 'Blue Rocks' in the mountains behind. After a couple of hours we reached Karandila, an old communist resort area high in the.. Read More
Life in Bulgaria, Sightseeing | 05.12.08 | No Comments
