I’ve slowed down on the blogging recently because I haven’t been travelling much. Also, haven’t had much inspiration for photography, but here are some pictures of the Black Sea, a gold-domed cathedral and some salad:
I spent three nights in Varna with my new companions (and some old ones): Paul (Ireland), Kate, Tash, [...]
This is my last night in Veliko Tarnovo, where I’ve been since Friday. Everybody from Hiker’s in Plovdiv is here, so I’ve spent much of the last few days with Steph and Sarah (Shropshire, U.K.) and Hayley and Bridget (Tasmania).
Veliko Tarnovo is an ancient town built on the slopes of a steep gorge. The centrepiece [...]
Just another day wandering Plovdiv, cooking, and jazz. The girls and I cooked up quite the spread for tea, then later went out for icecream and in doing so stumbled upon a big band playing in a Roman amphitheatre (can you imagine actually stumbling upon a big band?).
This has been a good day. I mostly wandered the streets of Plovdiv, occasionally spending some time in a church or antique store. I bought myself an old Soviet 35mm camera for 10 leva (a Lomo Smena 8M, if anyone cares), but don’t have any film yet. Can’t find B&W and I don’t like colour [...]
After a three-hour delay, sitting on the tracks, I arrived in Sofia. The journey there had been amazing – snow-capped mountains, green fields, meadows filled with flowers and dairy cows, the odd goat or donkey, poppy fields. I had no idea what to expect from Bulgaria, my first stop in the conglomerate mass known as [...]