#bourgas

The castle “In Love with the Wind“, located in Ravadinovo (Bulgaria)

I got to visit this enchanting place back in 2016, but never really shared any pictures from my trip until today. I realised that I have loads of content that I’d like to share with those, who might be interested in seeing through my eyes and what I create (because reposting is inspirational, but having your own work shared with the outside world with hopes for it to inspire someone else is another thing). I rarely make posts on my Tumblr, but I am yet to change that. I want to stay more active in sharing my own photography attempts this year, so that I can grow as an artist and share experience with other people, who have similar ideas.

Bourgas

A steamboat, to make a remark which is certainly not novel, but which still more certainly is true, is a microcosm of the country between whose ports it plies. The remark holds good of the tug—for it deserves no other name—which conveys the traffic between Varna and Bourgas, the chief, if not the only, seaports of the Principality. As the crow flies, the two towns are scarcely fifty miles apart There is a road between the two, but it is very rough, very hilly, and very precipitous, as it has to make all sorts of detours to avoid the bays and creeks with which the Bulgarian coast is indented.

There are no public conveyances of any kind in Bulgaria other than the railroads, and to make the journey by land would require about a day and night of constant and wearisome travelling. M. Stambouloff, who has an extreme dislike to the sea, was in the habit of going by land from Bourgas to Varna when he wished to visit the Prince at his seaside residence. But, even when every preparation was made beforehand for his journey, he failed to do the distance under some eighteen hours.

From Varna to Bourgas

For ordinary travellers, the only practical way of getting from Varna to Bourgas is to take the steamer, which makes two journeys a week each way. The passage is calculated to occupy seven hours, but its duration, and even its accomplishment, depend entirely upon the weather. At both ports you have to land in boats ; and, if the weather is rough—and in the Black Sea it generally is rough—the steamer runs for the nearest shelter or returns to its port of departure without being able to disembark its passengers. Some day or other the railroad will be continued from Bourgas to Varna.

Bourgas

A steamboat, to make a remark which is certainly not novel, but which still more certainly is true, is a microcosm of the country between whose ports it plies. The remark holds good of the tug—for it deserves no other name—which conveys the traffic between Varna and Bourgas, the chief, if not the only, seaports of the Principality. As the crow flies, the two towns are scarcely fifty miles apart There is a road between the two, but it is very rough, very hilly, and very precipitous, as it has to make all sorts of detours to avoid the bays and creeks with which the Bulgarian coast is indented.

There are no public conveyances of any kind in Bulgaria other than the railroads, and to make the journey by land would require about a day and night of constant and wearisome travelling. M. Stambouloff, who has an extreme dislike to the sea, was in the habit of going by land from Bourgas to Varna when he wished to visit the Prince at his seaside residence. But, even when every preparation was made beforehand for his journey, he failed to do the distance under some eighteen hours.

From Varna to Bourgas

For ordinary travellers, the only practical way of getting from Varna to Bourgas is to take the steamer, which makes two journeys a week each way. The passage is calculated to occupy seven hours, but its duration, and even its accomplishment, depend entirely upon the weather. At both ports you have to land in boats ; and, if the weather is rough—and in the Black Sea it generally is rough—the steamer runs for the nearest shelter or returns to its port of departure without being able to disembark its passengers. Some day or other the railroad will be continued from Bourgas to Varna.