On to Bulgaria

Friday morning we departed Vama Veche at last, rested, better prepared for Turkey, and proceeded down the coast into Bulgaria. Although this is still the EU, it is not a Schengen-agreement country, and so immigration/customs was a bit more than a drive-through. But it was OK. We bought the required vignette for driving on "highways" for 5 euro.

The big problem with Bulgaria is, for us, its Cyrillic alphabet

Ditto; I went provisioning into a supermarket, a Carrefours no

less, in Varnos, looking for, among other things, pork chops; I

am sure my rendition of "oink, oink" will be talked about in the

meat department for months to come



As with Romania, Bulgaria has seen great

development recently, particularly on its

Black Sea coast; not all of it is occupied; not

all of it is finished



Some quite opulent



  

Gothic cathedral condos?



This Thracian tumulus and grave site was finished, even
renovated

Most were just unfinished