What a marvellous day trip!  …all 13 hours of it…  Leaving Tsarevo on the Black Sea coast, we travelled to Plovdiv, the oldest continually-occupied city in Europe, and the fifth oldest in the world.  Older than Plovdiv are Jericho in Palestine, Byblos in Lebanon, Aleppo in Syria, and Susa in Iran.

I did think it interesting that the first thing I noticed on our journey was a billboard for my beloved Vienna!

Oh, and the beautiful flowing fields of sunflowers are now all dead or dying…  Just part of the process of the crop…  it was still sad, nonetheless…

This tree is known as “running man”…

This photo below is from travelbulgaria.news – I wanted to show you what was on the other side of the columns, but since we couldn’t drive anywhere near there, and it was 38 degree heat, I didn’t get to see it in person…

…next stop, further up in the mountains…  Click here to continue…

Sozopol, Bulgaria

August 4, 2021 0

  "Sozopol is one of the oldest towns on Bulgarian Thrace's Black Sea coast. The first settlement on the site dates back to the Bronze Age. Undersea explorations in the region of the port reveal relics of dwellings, ceramic pottery, stone and bone tools from that era. Many anchors from the second and first…

Plovdiv, Asen's Fortress, Bachovo Monastery Road Trip (2 of 4)

August 14, 2021 0

On our way, we drove through a town whose entire reason for being is weddings!  This below is a wedding venue, and driving through the town centre, I have never seen soooooooooooo many bridal shops! Here a bridal shop, there a bridal shop, everywhere a bridal shop! ...and then making…