Category: Day Trips

Newly Built When we last visited Bourgas in September 2015 the old bus station was closed.  The new one has since been completed (on the same site obviously!).  Here’s just a few photos … The Railway Station Is Right Next To The Bus Station  

  Well Now You Can ….. New for 2016 “Black Sam” is moored at Vlas Marina and goes out on a 4-hour trip 3 times a day – morning, afternoon and evening.  It sails around the bay towards Sunny Beach and then across to Nessebar.  We didn’t venture on it when...

Wikipedia – Burgas (or Bourgas) Buses from Sunny Beach bus station go very regularly to Bourgas.  It cost 6 leva each way.   Here’s just a small selection of photos from the centre of Bourgas which I took when we went in September 2015.   The central area shown below...

Well we eventually got to go to Sozopol – unfortunately not the way I intended though (My original plan!).  As I said before, I usually go to our apartment with my two sisters some time in September.  This year we went on the 23rd and to be fair, expected lots...

Several Options One of the trips I’ve been wanting to do and hopefully will get to do when I next go to our apartment is to visit Sozopol.  I understand it’s about 75 miles south of Vlas.  There are several ways to get there – you could organise a taxi...

Air Or Road? Depends on how quickly you want to get to Sofia really wikipedia/Sofia .  You can fly from Bourgas or Varna for example with bulgaria air or you can get on a coach from St Vlas.  The coach goes to and from Sofia every day and leaves St Vlas around about...

Just a couple of miles north of St Vlas is the resort of Elenite.  It’s probably walkable but when my sister and I holidayed at our apartment last September we decided to get on a bus and see what Elenite is like.  It’s very easy to do – catch the...

Valley Of The Roses My sister (Marilyn) and I had a lovely 2 week holiday at our apartment late September 2011.  As well as wanting a nice relaxing break we also wanted to see a bit more of Bulgaria, particularly where the roses are grown Valley of the Roses.  Bulgaria...

Bourgas is the second largest city on the Bulgarian black sea coast and the fourth largest after Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, with a population of 200,271 according to the 2011 census. wikipedia   Take A Bus Buses to Bourgas go from Sunny Beach bus station very frequently (about every 20 minutes) from...