Thursday, 9 February 2012

Bulgaria

From the lovely old city of Nessebur on the Black Sea coast . Weather warm ( 26C-28C) & sunny :-
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With its distinctive wooden upper storeys.
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Postby Ken » 12 Jun 2011 08:23 pm
Half way along the causeway leading to the old town is a strange windmill :-
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It proved impossible to find anything out about its history/purpose.
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Postby 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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Postby Ken » 19 Jun 2011 03:58 pm
Along the Black Sea coast grow these strange but beautiful trees :-
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Strange because the flowers grow straight from the trunk and along the branches:-
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You see them in gardens but they also grow wild all over the place :-
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Postby 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 :-
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Here on the outskirts of Bourgas there are no road names or street names --just area letters and block numbers.
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Postby 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 :-
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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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Postby 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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Postby Ken » 06 Jul 2011 04:03 pm
And so its goodnight and goodbye to Bulgaria :-
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