To be honest, this was the most surprising adventure on our whole trip. Renting an apartment for a month in Varna, Bulgaria was never something I thought we would do. But we did, and we fell in love all over again. That place has a special spot in our heart and we were so sad to say goodbye.
We spent the weeks doing soul searching, reading, going for long, long walks in the morning, evening, and at sunset. We spent hours in the Sea Garden with fresh juices or cappuccinos in hand, and long hours at the beach drinking Kaminitzas and frappes in lounge chairs. We watched soccer with a local family we met, made friends from Sweden and Germany who we danced with all night long, and met a couple of special Bulgarians we will be friends with for life. We ate and drank like kings while there – not taking one moment for granted, and telling each other what we were grateful for Every. Single. Day. It was such an amazing month, that we will never forget - and I will always be grateful for the hours and days I got to be with my husband.
I don’t even know where to begin with all our experiences, and we’re trying like crazy to stay up on our blog – so I’ll just quickly recap some of the the aweomeness that went on.
- Taking a 2 hour walking tour of Varna, meeting our German graffiti artist & t-shirt designer from the Black Forest, along with June (which apparently we Americans can never pronounce, so we called him John), and spending the entire day with them having drinks on the beach, dinner at the Nuns place, and dancing till the wee hours at “the only jazz club in varna” as we were told multiple times.
- Spending hours and hours at our favorite beach place – Malalaki reading books, napping, drinking frappes with less swimmers on than usual.
- Spending evenings with Irina, Martin & their little one Deanna on the beach while she played… and having drinks late night with just the 2 of them talking about life before the baby and life after the baby, life in texas vs Canada vs Bulgaria, boys talking work & sports, girls talking face product and shoes
- Ending our trip having drinks with Martin & Demitri on the beach, while we talked Bulgarian & Macedonian history while sampling their local drinks of choice – Mentha and Oblock
- Becoming locals at My Café, soul searching and planning our next adventures
- Making friends with stray dogs at all hours of the night
- Seeing kitten the size of our fists running around the streets
- Our local juice lady who finally smiled at us after 5 times of going there in a row… fresh orange, apple, carrot, and grapefruit juice every day
- Drinking our mini cappuccinos while taking long walks along the Sea Garden, talking about life and not talking at all, enjoying the cliff view, flowers, walkways, huge statues, little kids, more dogs, and donkeys
- Finding the best local doner-kebab place that gave us a doner the size of a large baby
- Walking around the local market, picking up fruits and veggies, and buying fresh flowers to put out on our balcony
- Watching Anchor Man on our balcony at night, drinking scotch and smoking cigars – hysterically laughing the whole time (so much so, the neighbors made us go inside)
- Going to our corner fruit market every day to get whatever was fresh for the beach or a late night snack
- Seeing Black Street at the big night club, not thinking we were going to make it because it was hot and loud and we wished we had ear plugs, plus it was getting past midnight (o.m.g. we are OLD) but then we ordered a few beers and turned into dancing machines, enjoying the 3 songs Black Street came on and played then heading home around 3:30am like champs
- Date nights at Bodega, The Nuns place, and Canope with bacon wrapped skewers, chocolate cakes and brownies, the best calzone of our life, yummy fresh trout, perfect tomatoes and zucchinis, and amazing wine to accompany it all
- And most importantly… the way we felt when we looked at each other that 4th week and said, where did the time go? I can’t believe we have to leave!
We spent the weeks doing soul searching, reading, going for long, long walks in the morning, evening, and at sunset. We spent hours in the Sea Garden with fresh juices or cappuccinos in hand, and long hours at the beach drinking Kaminitzas and frappes in lounge chairs. We watched soccer with a local family we met, made friends from Sweden and Germany who we danced with all night long, and met a couple of special Bulgarians we will be friends with for life. We ate and drank like kings while there – not taking one moment for granted, and telling each other what we were grateful for Every. Single. Day. It was such an amazing month, that we will never forget - and I will always be grateful for the hours and days I got to be with my husband.
I don’t even know where to begin with all our experiences, and we’re trying like crazy to stay up on our blog – so I’ll just quickly recap some of the the aweomeness that went on.
- Taking a 2 hour walking tour of Varna, meeting our German graffiti artist & t-shirt designer from the Black Forest, along with June (which apparently we Americans can never pronounce, so we called him John), and spending the entire day with them having drinks on the beach, dinner at the Nuns place, and dancing till the wee hours at “the only jazz club in varna” as we were told multiple times.
- Spending hours and hours at our favorite beach place – Malalaki reading books, napping, drinking frappes with less swimmers on than usual.
- Spending evenings with Irina, Martin & their little one Deanna on the beach while she played… and having drinks late night with just the 2 of them talking about life before the baby and life after the baby, life in texas vs Canada vs Bulgaria, boys talking work & sports, girls talking face product and shoes
- Ending our trip having drinks with Martin & Demitri on the beach, while we talked Bulgarian & Macedonian history while sampling their local drinks of choice – Mentha and Oblock
- Becoming locals at My Café, soul searching and planning our next adventures
- Making friends with stray dogs at all hours of the night
- Seeing kitten the size of our fists running around the streets
- Our local juice lady who finally smiled at us after 5 times of going there in a row… fresh orange, apple, carrot, and grapefruit juice every day
- Drinking our mini cappuccinos while taking long walks along the Sea Garden, talking about life and not talking at all, enjoying the cliff view, flowers, walkways, huge statues, little kids, more dogs, and donkeys
- Finding the best local doner-kebab place that gave us a doner the size of a large baby
- Walking around the local market, picking up fruits and veggies, and buying fresh flowers to put out on our balcony
- Watching Anchor Man on our balcony at night, drinking scotch and smoking cigars – hysterically laughing the whole time (so much so, the neighbors made us go inside)
- Going to our corner fruit market every day to get whatever was fresh for the beach or a late night snack
- Seeing Black Street at the big night club, not thinking we were going to make it because it was hot and loud and we wished we had ear plugs, plus it was getting past midnight (o.m.g. we are OLD) but then we ordered a few beers and turned into dancing machines, enjoying the 3 songs Black Street came on and played then heading home around 3:30am like champs
- Date nights at Bodega, The Nuns place, and Canope with bacon wrapped skewers, chocolate cakes and brownies, the best calzone of our life, yummy fresh trout, perfect tomatoes and zucchinis, and amazing wine to accompany it all
- And most importantly… the way we felt when we looked at each other that 4th week and said, where did the time go? I can’t believe we have to leave!
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