I was woken up by the sun again today at around 8.30. It’s like the best of British summer first thing in the morning! Met Team Hairy Legs in the car park and had a long chat – They’d been driving all night and just pulled into the services for a bit of a rest – they’re heading for some holiday resorts around Varna, Bulgaria for a couple of days holiday, which sounds really nice.
We met another team in 2 Ford Escorts just before the Bulgarian border, one of their cars was having trouble with engine temperature and stopped for a while in no-man’s-land, where a Romanian cabbie who spoke no English told them it was the needle that was broken. The border was nice and easy again, passports, road tax, currency and off.
I don’t know what it was about Romania, but Bulgaria instantly seems nicer, and nobody we’ve spoken to seemed to like Romania much either.
Drove to just south of Varna and had a look around a beach resort at Obzor, I bet places like this in Bulgaria will be very popular with British tourists soon! A sign in the reception said the sea water is warmer than their pools! It’s going to be way too expensive to stay here though, and it’s not really our kind of place, so we’re going to head towards the Turkish border and find somewhere to camp.
Just stopped for something to eat in a ridiculously busy little holiday town called Kiten. It’s full of locals and has the feeling of a place like Blackpool, but much more condensed! Got some pizza and managed to check emails on my ipod, none too exciting, nice to hear from Mum though.
I’ve managed to take a wrong turn or miss a turn or something and ended up on a secluded beach off a small road down to another resort town, so we’re just going to stay here. There are loads of giant crickets or grasshoppers (is there a difference?) around. Arrived nice and early, but it’s still too hot to sleep!
We met another team in 2 Ford Escorts just before the Bulgarian border, one of their cars was having trouble with engine temperature and stopped for a while in no-man’s-land, where a Romanian cabbie who spoke no English told them it was the needle that was broken. The border was nice and easy again, passports, road tax, currency and off.
I don’t know what it was about Romania, but Bulgaria instantly seems nicer, and nobody we’ve spoken to seemed to like Romania much either.
Drove to just south of Varna and had a look around a beach resort at Obzor, I bet places like this in Bulgaria will be very popular with British tourists soon! A sign in the reception said the sea water is warmer than their pools! It’s going to be way too expensive to stay here though, and it’s not really our kind of place, so we’re going to head towards the Turkish border and find somewhere to camp.
Just stopped for something to eat in a ridiculously busy little holiday town called Kiten. It’s full of locals and has the feeling of a place like Blackpool, but much more condensed! Got some pizza and managed to check emails on my ipod, none too exciting, nice to hear from Mum though.
I’ve managed to take a wrong turn or miss a turn or something and ended up on a secluded beach off a small road down to another resort town, so we’re just going to stay here. There are loads of giant crickets or grasshoppers (is there a difference?) around. Arrived nice and early, but it’s still too hot to sleep!
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