Nesebar is one of Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited towns, a UNESCO World heritage jewel perched on a tiny rocky peninsula on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, where 3,000 years of Thracian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Bulgarian history are layered into every cobblestone, church ruin, and timber-framed house. Often called the “Pearl of the Black Sea,” Nesebar’s […]
The water stretches in every direction, flat and silver under a wide sky. Reed beds taller than a person sway in the breeze, and the calls of pelicans and cormorants echo across the channels. In the Danube Delta, the second largest delta in Europe, the boundary between land and water dissolves entirely. Your boat glides […]
Tsarevo is one of the sunniest places in Bulgaria, a small, laid-back seaside town on the southern Black Sea coast, just 60 kilometres from the Turkish border, whose beautiful beaches, crystal-clear water, and relaxed atmosphere make it a favourite summer escape for Bulgarians while remaining almost completely unknown to international visitors. Nestled between the Strandzha […]
At 380 metres of total drop, the Krimmler Waterfalls in the Hohe Tauern National Park are the highest waterfalls in Austria and the fifth highest in Europe, a three-stage cascade formed by the Krimmler Ache, a glacial stream that thunders over the edge of the cliff at 1,470 metres above sea level and plunges into […]
Bulgaria is the country of roses, the Rose Valley south of the Balkan Mountains produces over 70% of the world’s rose oil, an industry that has defined the region’s economy and culture for over 300 years and is celebrated each June with the Rose Festival in Kazanlak, one of the most colourful and joyful festivals […]
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Romania is the country of Dracula, and that is both its blessing and its curse. The legend of Vlad the Impaler and Bram Stoker’s fictional vampire has given Romania one of the most recognisable tourist brands in the world (Bran Castle, marketed as Dracula’s Castle, draws over 800,000 visitors a year), but it has also […]
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