Category: Traveling around Europe

last update:Dec272022August 13, 2019December 27, 2022Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Varna: the city of the Black Sea

Posted in Traveling around Europe

The next step our the trip was Varna, the largest city on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. The idea was, in addition to visiting the other two main cities of the country, staying a few days on the beach (and Varna offered that plus it is the European capital of sports 2019). So we headed towards the Black Sea. Varna: European capital of sports…

Read More
Share:

Topics: Traveling around Europe | Leave your comment! | Print This Post Print This Post


last update:Aug102019August 10, 2019August 10, 2019Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Plovdiv: what to see on a weekend (2)

Posted in Traveling around Europe

For our second day in Plovdiv (see our post about the first day) we started the morning with one of the free city tours, the Free Plovdiv Tour (website) . If you are interested, they start every day at 11 and 6 in the afternoon in front of the town hall, and last two hours (so you are perfectly in time for lunch or dinner…

Read More
Share:

Topics: Traveling around Europe | Leave your comment! | Print This Post Print This Post


last update:Nov132024August 6, 2019November 13, 20241Commentby Santiago H

Plovdiv: what to do in a weekend

Posted in Traveling around Europe

We arrive in Plovdiv in the morning from Sofia. We left our things in the AirBnB (See: where to stay and how to get around in Plovdiv?) And we went to the first of Plovdiv to see: the Kapana district. Kapana: the center of Plovdiv to see and feel “Kapana” means “the trap.” Its name comes in its form: they are small and labyrinthine streets…

Read More
Share:

Topics: Traveling around Europe | 1 comment | Print This Post Print This Post


last update:Aug192021August 1, 2019August 19, 2021Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Plovdiv: the ancient city of Bulgaria

Posted in Traveling around Europe

Cities – and buildings – with millennia of history have a given something. That is why I haven’t been to the US yet. There everything is a couple of hundred years old, at best. Monuments are made to look old instead of being old. Built with modern techniques instead of inventing techniques to make them. Of course, I am spoiled about this topic it because…

Read More
Share:

Topics: Traveling around Europe | Leave your comment! | Print This Post Print This Post