To the light

Dea/ October 31, 2019/ paints/ 0 comments

Size: 20/30 cm., Oil, canvas, Price: 100 BGN UnframedSometimes we are confined for the rest of our lives in the limited space of our own limits. And all we have to do is go outside, breathe in the fresh, pungent smell of everything around us and look at how perfect the hidden order of things is. Allow yourself. Get out

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The three kai – with plates!

Dea/ October 18, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

There are already signs for the Three Kai! Tourists from the Varna Hiking Society “New Horizons” – Varna marked the beautiful “Three Kai” route. Its beginning is located about 100 km from the city of Varna, starting point the central square of the village of Bilka. From there, head straight up the black goat road. Those who have been prepared

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The rest of the Romans

Dea/ October 9, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

Do we know today how to rest? Oh yes. We have the self-confidence of the modern generation, who knows best from all the previous ones how to relax. But not really we invented the warm water / that even the cold … /, and their alternation most skillfully used … the Romans! In their city baths centuries ago, the best

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Thomas Cook – the father of organized tourism

Dea/ September 29, 2019/ Miscellaneous/ 0 comments

Behind Thomas Cook’s big dream was a great ideal: he believed that the journey in man is the easiest and fastest transformation to that, he is his best version! How does it all start? Well with an offer – to the railroads who could lower ticket prices with full occupancy of seats. Seeing this market niche, after watching what’s happening

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When salt weighed more than gold

Dea/ September 24, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

Once upon a time, seven thousand years ago, Provadia / a town in northeastern Bulgaria / was the oldest salt extraction center in Europe. It is ironic that today this resource / still in stock / is not used for salt production! In fact, the raw material is used, but for the production of soda from another factory in the

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Last care

Dea/ September 2, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

I had a special trip that overturned many of my ideas about life. It happened in the summer of 2003, but has a history of a few months earlier. Phones weren’t that smart and popular back then, but ways to connect more publicly. There was a series of phonecards and one of them / which was “Monasteries”, but then I

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111 years of the Cossack

Dea/ August 20, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

111 years ago Don Cossacks stopped on the shore of Lake Varna and created their own village. They are expelled from their country for political reasons, excommunicated, and forced to seek a new home away from home. They keep the old faith (that’s why they call them Old Believers or Lipovans), and their second nickname comes from the fact that

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The reed boat embarks on its historic journey

Dea/ August 16, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

The reed boat, which began construction on May 5 near Varna, is now ready to go. After being put on the water on August 1st, the crew had little time to make test sails – in Varna Lake and in the bay. The difficulties they faced in the practical part were the differences from the training model that the team

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The Albanian Alps

Dea/ August 15, 2019/ Journeys/ 0 comments

So we entered Albania – with a whirlwind, by water, for three hours among the terrestrial beauties, until we reached the ground. The mountainous land, part of the Alps, to which her curse is called? /! / Greeted us in this way. In the following days, the same thing was repeated – and always to the max. The sun was

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