Remember what an awesome day I had in Sofia yesterday? Well.. Today did not start out that way.
We took a five and a half hour bus to the coast to spend a couple days near the Black Sea. Besides the bus being uncomfortable, it really wasn't that bad.
Finding a hostel at five in the morning, is that bad.
It was dark, cold, and the streets were abandoned. Never mind the insistent taxi drivers wanting to take us to the beach (who goes to the beach that early?!).
We wandered around the small village of Burgas for almost and hour before finding our hostel.
To say it was a little different from our previous hostel, would be a dramatic understatement.
I'm not a complainer, but this hostel was.. Well, a disaster. It was freezing, and we ended up in an 8 man room with no locks or place to keep our luggage. The bathrooms didnt even have toilet paper!
We didn't last very long there.
At about ten, we snuck out of there and booked another, more user friendly, hostel down the street.
We love it here.
Next on our little adventure is Sunny Beach, the tourist town of the Bulgarian Coastline. Unknown to us, it's also a ghost town in the end of October.
Seriously, no on was there.. And all the buildings were boxed up and closed. I've never seen something so abandoned looking.
The beach itself was pretty incredible though.
See? I wasn't lying.
After wandering through the ghost town, we took the bus back to Burgas and walked around some more lovely beaches. We watched the sun set from the pier and turns out there was some kind of jellyfish gathering going on, so we saw a bunch of those weird looking creatures of the sea.
Love this town.
Love my friends.
Love my life.
Xoxo.
Was the water warm? It is very beautiful. I can't believe you were touching jellyfish. Did you get Dad's email? The hostels in Europe are all like that. They do have family hostels for the non college crowd. The hostel in San Francisco was a huge college hangout also.
ReplyDelete