Bulgaria

 

From the lovely old city of Nessebur on the Black Sea coast . Weather warm ( 26C-28C) & sunny :-



With its distinctive wooden upper storeys.

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by Ken » 12 Jun 2011 08:23 pm

Half way along the causeway leading to the old town is a strange windmill :-



It proved impossible to find anything out about its history/purpose.

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by Ken » 13 Jun 2011 01:12 pm

Nessebar is quie a small island --about a mile in length -- but It`s reckoned that it had the highest number of churches per person in Bulgaria at the time of the 2nd Bulgarian Empire with over 40 in total. I think there are currently still 13 . They have a very distict style :-



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by Ken » 18 Jun 2011 03:37 pm

Some are quite intact :-



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by Ken » 19 Jun 2011 03:58 pm

Along the Black Sea coast grow these strange but beautiful trees :-



Strange because the flowers grow straight from the trunk and along the branches:-



You see them in gardens but they also grow wild all over the place :-



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by Ken » 20 Jun 2011 11:18 am

I thought we`d been nearly everywhere but we`d never seen them before either -- not even in Madeira in Spring or summer.
The Black Sea coast is quite nice but there are still remnants of the soviet era :-



Here on the outskirts of Bourgas there are no road names or street names --just area letters and block numbers.

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by Ken » 02 Jul 2011 11:21 am

Fortunately that`s the excepetion & further inland lues a picturesque countryside.
Its well worth hiting a boat & taking a peaceful trip up the river Ropotamo :-



There was an abundance of kingfishers and turtles. Unfortunately the kingfishers were far too fast to photograph -- but not so the turtles:-



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by Ken » 02 Jul 2011 06:38 pm

And finally --
Further down the Black Sea coast towards the Turkish border is another lovely old town. Sozopol :-



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by Ken » 06 Jul 2011 04:03 pm

And so its goodnight and goodbye to Bulgaria :-



Ken