This is my third time in Burgas and I’m again waiting for the ferry to depart on Friday.
Last time (in 2022, when I was visiting friends in Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and Turkey), the ferry arrived late in Burgas and didn’t leave until Saturday evening, so I had to book a new room for the extra night, which was difficult due to a festival. I also almost missed the bus from Batumi to Tbilisi and thus the night train to Yerevan.
To avoid this stress on the 2025 Kunming&Beyond trip, I’ve planned two extra days in Batumi. This means the ferry ride, including all the time before and after, will take a total of a week.
I’m not comparing this to flights, but one possible alternative would be via Turkey. But they have Erdoğan there, and the majority voted for him, so I usually avoid going there (in 2022, I visited friends in Ankara and Istanbul and I made an exception also due to lack of time, as the return trip to Armenia, Georgia, and the ferry to Bulgaria would have taken at least 10 days longer).
Waiting means long walks, writing, reading, and being lazy. Being lazy meant that “my” Burgas breakfast calories weren’t burned until lunch.
So, I went for a long walk.
I wore my sandals (see d01).
My sandals reactivated my blister and created a new one, as the walk was longer because the restaurant didn’t open until 6:00 PM.
Beforehand, I had spent a long time looking for typical vegetarian Bulgarian food (not that much, but it exists) and restaurants mentioning vegetarian options. And I found this one (1 of 112 recommended restaurants on Tripadvisor, but perhaps the descriptions didn’t tell everthing).
They only had Shopska salad, which was okay in the end since I still wasn’t hungry.
- he was a Bulgarian voivode
- fatally wounded in a battle at the age of 28
- This somewhat lost-looking person, wedged between stone blocks, symbolizes “victory”!
- This artwork reminded me of an internal organ with hopefully benign growths, and the translation app only said “biser,” which possibly means pearl. Theoretically possible – it’s art!
- On the beach promenade there was an exhibition because of the 145th anniversary of the statistical institute