My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
To make it easier for you to follow our 2026 Spring European trip from the beginning I’ve linked the blog posts in order.
You can go to the first blog post of our trip by clicking on this link.
At the end of each blog post after that, there is a link to the next day’s blog post.
We spent 4 nights in Burgas. The Primoretz Grand Hotel and the town of Burgas are really nice. That’s all it takes to enjoy a place. I really liked Burgas. Of course it helped that we had two days of sunshine. Today is grey again but today is a travel day.
Before leaving Burgas this morning we used the spa. It was lovely.
Just before noon we checked out and drove about an hour and a half north and inland to a hotel spa outside of Sladka Voda. Duke booked Carpe Diem because it has excellent reviews. I think it was an excellent choice. It is a wonderful hotel and spa. Even though the weather is back to rainy, cold and grey we had a wonderful relaxing afternoon.
We checked out the spa which we will use tomorrow and relaxed and read this afternoon.
We had an excellent dinner in the hotel restaurant.
Today we went out exploring. We drove 45 minutes up the coast to the old town of Nessebar. The following is taken from the UNESCO World Heritage Site web page.
the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria). At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the city became a Greek colony.
We walked all around the town, went to the Archaeological Museum, and stopped for coffee.
For dinner we went back to Restaurant Ziatna Ribka. Duke had Rapana and I had mussels. It wasn’t until after we ordered that we figured out that Rapana is a kind of invasive sea snail. It was all very good.
If you would like to read our next blog post when we leave Burgas click here.
Sun! We had a lovely sunny day today. The high temperature was only 56° but the blue skies and sun made it a very pleasant day. This morning we went for a walk along the coast of the Black Sea.
This afternoon we went back and had another pastry at the pastry shop we went to yesterday.
For dinner we went to a nearby restaurant called Tony Gigi Burgas.
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When I was looking at the map of Burgas yesterday I saw a park nearby with what were described as Book Benches. It was grey and rainy this morning so we didn’t go out exploring until about 1:00 pm. Our first stop was to check out the Book Benches.
Next we visited the Burgas Archaeological Museum. The museum is small but full of treasures. All the signs were in both Bulgarian and English so we learned about all the civilizations that have lived here over the centuries.
The sign says that these Lily-shaped ceramic vessels date from the first half of the 5th millennium BC.
When we were done in the museum we went to a pastry shop across the street and had coffee and a pastry. Our chocolate pastry was delicious.
For dinner we went to a nearby restaurant called Zlatna Ribka. We had one of the best meals of the trip.
Tomorrow they are predicting sunshine! Read the blog post here.
This morning we left our hotel, EcoCenter RumiKa and drove about an hour and a half west to the town of Burgas on the coast of the Black Sea.
The hotel we are staying at in Burgas, the Primoretz Grand Hotel, is beautiful. It’s one of nicest we have stayed at so far on this trip
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