Fulbright Greece/Bulgaria

This will probably be my last post from Bulgaria.  We toured Plovdiv this week with its wide pedestrian malls and old town with its National Revival architecture.  We ate dinner in a restaurant built over Roman ruins and bought pottery directly from a potter in her tiny pottery studio.  The next morning there was a [...]

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We arrived at the Black Sea port of Bourgas.  On the way we drove through some of the hotel construction along the shore.  Gorgeous hotels and souvenir shops are crowded next to each other.  It was easy to see why the biggest industry in Bulgaria right now is construction.  This area is booming!  We also toured [...]

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