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Posted in Bulgaria

100 National Tourist Sites in Bulgaria

Posted on by Irina Ilieva

As we embarked on a journey to explore the 100 National Tourist Sites in Bulgaria, we quickly realized there is no online map in English.

Pavel’s Bulgarian is very good, but museums in Bulgaria do have long names and for the non-native speaker it can really become a challenge when names seem kind of similar.

As solution-driven individuals, we used a similar Google map, made by the wonderful planinar.org and we updated and translated so it would be easier for any enthusiast to make a travel itinerary for a weekend, a week, or why not even longer.

It is a public map that you can share with absolutely anyone you feel like.

Enjoy you trip and drop us a line!

100 National Tourist Sites is a movement of the Bulgarian Tourist Association that promotes places of significance in the country.

Posted in Australian Adventures

Bushfire, fireworks and other Sydney impressions

Posted on by Irina Ilieva

We landed in Sydney 3 days prior to NYE and a month after the bushfire season had started. Just our luck the fires around were still manageable. However, you couldn’t really see the sky in Sydney and it felt kind of stifling already. The week before had seen one of the highest temperature records in this part of Australia, so we were prepared for scorching heat. Well, all the news covarage in Europe was not that right after all, cause we spent 3 quite chilly days in town. On the 30th we strolled around Circular Quay and saw some of the projections and fireworks tests for the NYE celebrations.

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Waiting for tonight #sydney #nye #newyearseve #waitingforthenewyear

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We had decided though that paying an expensive package for a drink with a view, or otherwise competing with 1.4 mln tourists for a good spot are things we could spare despite the experience. We also had initially planned longer time around Sydney to explore the Blue Mountains and some of the Coastline nearby, but due to the bushfires it was getting increasingly smoky and dangerous.
So we opted in for a flight to Melbourne where we decided to welcome 2020
instead.
Anyway, in the short time we spent there, we did manage to see and experience some cool things. Check them out in my next post – – > 3 days in Sydney in non-beach weather.