Beautiful Bulgaria

Cherno Morye (The Black Sea)

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June 19th 2006
Well, the Black Sea is different than I expected. I took a 6 hour train to Varna, the northern sea capital, and was instructed by my guidebook to go the the Mladost bus station, so I took a mini bus, but instead of Mladost station I went to the Mladost bus stop. For the first time it was hot, and I was wandering around outer Varna, away from the shore, which is the most Stalinist I have yet seen ... 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