Varna

A Six Month Odyssey

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March 8th 2020
5th March 2020 Istanbul We flew back to Istanbul today and will head to Varna on the bus tomorrow. The Celul Sultan hotel is right in the centre of Sultanahmet, so it was a nice to walk around again in a city that has become so familiar, one last time. The hotel manager tells me he has given us an upgrade. It's an OK room at best and I dread to think what we might have faced otherwise! ... read more

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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, b... ... read more