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Background: The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks. Northern Bulgaria attained autonomy in 1878 and all of Bulgaria became independent in 1908. Having fought on the losing side in both World Wars, Bulgaria fell within the Soviet sphere of influence and became a People's Republic in 1946. Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime. Today, reforms and democratization keep Bulgaria on a path toward eventual integration into the EU. The country joined NATO in 2004.




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We arrived early in the morning for our fist port of call, Varna, a seaside resort town on the coast of Bulgaria. After booking our cruise I checked out the cruisecritic.com website and was fortunate enough after a few e-mails to have a private tour at every port of call with a group of 6 for five of our stops and along with those same 6 part of a group of twenty for two other stops. Oscar (along with Debbie) organized all our stops along with Keith and Debra (from Canada). Oscar and Debbie (both retired) travel every 6 months and [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 16th 2009 | 20 Views | [diary=452336]

Balchik Royal Palace
Aladzha Monastery
Varna Archaeological Museum

Our stay in Varna has essentially been 10 days of down time, a welcome break halfway through this trip. It's just a shame the British weather came to greet us as we were looking forward to lying by the pool and getting a tan. We were met off the bus by Rob who we worked with in Azerbaijan. He kindly invited us to stay at his house in the hills above Varna. Our first full day with him was glorious and we basked in the sunshine making the most of his swimming pool. Sadly that was the last we saw of [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 13th 2009 | 88 Views | [diary=436161]

Trish's Trabbie!
A view towards the Black Sea
A Day in the Sun

By TomParker21
August 26th 2009
Istanbul - Varna Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
I'm ashamed to say I spent most of my final 2 days in Istanbul in a pub, watching the cricket. I think culture is over rated anyway. Had so much fun it was unbeleivable though. Started off with a pub of about 40 aussies and 5 brits and ended up with the complete reverse! Met a lad called Andy who notcied my Cuths day tshirt. Turns out he was a cuthsman and was with a mate from Aidens. Pretty small world! I did see a few sites, including the blue mosque which I finally got to outside of prayer time. It [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 26th 2009 | 97 Views | [diary=431300]


By supergran
August 6th 2009
Onwards and upwards Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
At least I think it should be upwards.Looking forward to family visit - not long now and have devised possible excursions to use time wisely.Travelling will have to be early am or later evening as in between is a nightmare with our weather. We are in the process of laying down plum Rakia for winter cold offsetting! Never fear there will be some for Belfast at Xmas and Cornwall in June!! Even we can't drink 50L of plum and of course grape to follow.Gillian and Peter got good weather with some nightime storms and we have had the odd one since [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 6th 2009 | 50 Views | [diary=425816]


Today I went on a trip to a village called Dubovik, which was about an hour and a half outside of Varna. Upon arriving in this small village the mayor, a woman named Tanya Purveva, came out and greeted us. Dubovik has a population of about 200 and a lot of elderly people. In fact, the mayor told us that the lack of youth is a problem in her opinion and wishes that more young people would live there, but they all move to the larger villages or cities like Varna. The mayor then proceeded to give us a tour [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 28th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=423042]

Me and the cutest little lady!

By dafs
July 21st 2009
Na Zdrave!  Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
Its been a while, but in June I went on a fieldtrip with college to Bulgaria. Without any expectations I left and found out that Bulgaria had a lot more to offer than I could ever imagine! It started right off in the good way. I gathered with some classmates and we never left each others sides again for the rest of the week. Our trip started in Eindhoven where we took a very small and somewhat dangerous plane (note: weird sounds) to Burgas. That was some kind of culture shock right there! Chaos all over, unorganized mess and the [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 21st 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=420604]

Albena Day Light
Varna Bay
Chava & Shanna

By carterface
July 10th 2009
Varna Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
When in Bulgaria everyone was telling me not to trust public transport, and that the best way to get around the country was by hitchhiking. But being that I knew no Bulgarian and all of my trains were paid for, I decided to take the best train in the country—the express train to Varna. If you don’t know, Varna is a beach town on the edge of the Black Sea and Bulgaria’s third largest city. When staying with Jordan he mentioned that Varna would be a much better capitol because it is cleaner, nicer and the people are better. After this [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 10th 2009 | 114 Views | [diary=417193]

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By supergran
July 8th 2009
Brief report Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
So after a uneventful(barring thunderstorms) trip back I'm now in the middle of sorting out finances, visiting family, cars and properties - ie nothing changes. However have managed 2 trips to Varna beach, once to meet pete and family and once (yesterday ) with G for company. Just as well as needed him to push start the white car(john's). Now killing time whilst key and starting lock are sorted.At least it's not as hot.Yesterday it was 34C on beach(fortunately with light wind to help cooling. )In an hour's time I'm meeting up with an old friend who waitressed in the restaurant [View Full Entry]

supergran - Ann McCombe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 8th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=416386]


By supergran
May 14th 2009
ready for off Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
Well not quite but working up to settling all outstanding debts and problems so i hope to have a reasonably OK trip to Cornwall.Car had a full service and now only requires 3 tyres(waiting till found).Insurance payment for outside Bulg( relay etc insur for 30 days) to be paid next.Rental continues smoothly,tho at the mild nuisance value of watching Man U games- yugh! Small price to pay for money which as expected more than covers elect and water at both properties.Elect is at last up to date and hopefully will be easier to cope with.They have started to read it each [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 14th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=398842]


By supergran
October 2nd 2008
More news Europe » Bulgaria » East » Varna
Since my last blog I have had the pleasure of J+J staying over to try and buy a house in the countryside.I am pleased to report that this was accomplished along with another for Clinotherm.We also had time to visit Balchik and this time saw a snake in the walls and lizards and butterflies and frogs the next day at Yunets. So a great time was had by all. Subsequently the car threw another problem yesterday when the 'water in diesel' warning light came on necessitating another visit to Nissan!!!Having found no water yesterday I have left it with them today [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 2nd 2008 | 73 Views | [diary=329988]



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