Balchik (Балчик) is a quiet seaside town and resort village on the Black Sea in Bulgaria. The town is located on a hillside with roads that wind down to the sea.
The Varna Ethnographic Museum is one of the biggest and best in all of Bulgaria. It’s well worth a visit. The museum is located in a beautiful Bulgarian National Revival house built around 1860.
With a community of about 10,000 Turks living in Shumen, there are some interesting remnants of Bulgaria’s long Ottoman past.
I started my exploration of Shumen on Tsar Osvoboditel Street (ulitsa Tsar Osvoboditel). It’s not the main street through town but there were a handful of historic homes along it, some that double as museums.
Prince Alexander Battenberg Square (Ploshtad Knyaz Aleksandûr Battenberg) is a small square in Ruse named after modern Bulgaria’s first prince.
Kurtuluş was home to the popular Baklahorani, which is a carnival celebrated by the Greek Orthodox residents of Istanbul on the last Monday before Lent. It began as early as the 19th century and was celebrated annually until it was banned by the Turkish government in 1943.
If you’ve visited Chios in the summer and didn’t go to a panigiri, you haven’t visited Chios. A panigiri is a traditional festival that is usually held to honor the patron saint of a village or church.
This post recalls my experience watching the 2010 World Cup semifinal game between Spain and Germany in Madrid.
48 hours in Cairo. That’s what Maria and Dana proposed when they were “bored” in Amman. This kind of travel is completely against my travel philosophy, but I agreed to go with them. They booked the flights and hotel and off we went. It turned into a whirlwind of a trip.
Westminster makes up part of Central London, England. It contains several important landmarks such as Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster. It’s located just west of the City of London.