Here I am again. Lovely day that panned out as expected. Lovely breakfast in this palace of a place (shame it’s not hot enough to use the pool…it’s HUGE) and off I set. Found my bus to Sozopol and spent a lovely and quite leisurely day walking the town and absorbing it. It is a little peninsula surrounded by sea (which by the way was definitely Black today due to the black clouds that followed me all day but didn’t actually get me!!). It has a fortress wall and lovely ancient houses, very quaint churches and of course the mandatory rooon. So I just took my time and walked every street in the town. Then I of course had to find somewhere to satisfy my desire for fresh fish which I had been smelling in my walks and was desperate for!! I found just the place and had a most delicious feed of some fish I’d never heard of along with a glass of wine…most pleasant. A little more wandering around fortress walls and rough turbulent (and black) sea. Then when it was time to return I found the bus station and before long along came the bus and off I went. Back to the opulence of the hotel where I sit in the lounge area and will soon just have to order a drink!!
I’m still coming to terms with the Bulgarian psyche. There are such lovely people you meet along the way and others who won’t make eye contact and won’t respond to a smile or a question. It is perplexing but I am getting used to it and really liking Bulgaria. I’m sure i’ll miss it when I get to Romania. (But still the Turks take the cake for me!).
Hopefully tomorrow will work as well as I set off to explore the other town I came here to see, Nessebar. The really big one though will be my effort to get to Bucharest in one day on Sunday.