2014 - AEGEAN ODYSSEY - NESSEBUR, Bulgaria

We are now parked in Burgas but the destination is just up the coast - Nessebur...

First stop is of course a Museum. This one is very nice..

Here is a treasure trove of silver ...

and gold ..

and pottery

But my attention wavers & I am soon outside. Waiting for the group to appear .. I see Sunny Beach in the distance ...

some cormorants on a statue & what looks like a very large sand dune.

Now a walk through the town ..

One church after another .. Byzantine churches ...

Spot the swastika motif . Nothing Nazi about it though. Way before their time .

There is a name for those type of decoration but I forget ...

Souvenir shops of course ...

Now we are inside a church.....

Saint Stephen I think ...

That's a little creepy ..

Layla, our baby sitter for the day, was looking a bit tired in here. And no wonder. She let me heft the bag she is required to carry around. It weighs a ton.

She needs ----

We leave our guide & get to walk around town on our own. I head into a little store for a bottle of something with ginger in it.

And also find a nice spot for a sit down for a pancake just like mother used to make & a beer ..

Another stop for a coffee & cake then on with the walk around the peninsula ...

Looks heavy work by the locals ...

A stop here for a restorative glass of local Brandy. Quite a lot of brandy, came in a nice little bottle with a cork stopper.

On the way back to Burgas - this is a pile of salt, evaporated from lagoons.

Another pleasant day.

That will be the last stop in the Black Sea.

We will now pass through the Bosphorus, Istanbul, the Dardanelles & back into the Aegean or some more of Greece..