Everyone who is visiting Santorini for the first time comes up with some expectations of their own. We have all seen romantic photos of white houses and churches with blue …
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Night in the museum: Hotel Hebros, Plovdiv Old Town
11 minutes readSince August 2024, the hotel’s name is Old Legends. According to their website, its authentic look has been preserved, but we have no fresh impressions of the services and their …
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Our holiday in Egypt and the colourful world around the Red Sea – Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada with Rixos Hotels
15 minutes readEgypt looks stunning even before landing there. Flying from Eastern Europe, first we see the coast of the African continent, Alexandria, the Nile delta. From here to Cairo everything was …
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The Aegean cruise you must take: Mykonos, Kusadasi, Patmos, Crete, Santorini
24 minutes readWe are slowly approaching Santorini and the dramatic caldera is slowly emerging in front of us through a mystical fog on a slightly cloudy day in May. The steep slopes …
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Discover Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna through food – Sofia Restaurant Week 2022!
2 minutes readPandemic is gone for now and all foodies, gourmet lovers and restaurant lovers in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna in Bulgaria are full of excitement – it is time for one …
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Restaurant Pipero Roma has one Michelin star and bears the name of its patron, owner and founder, Alessandro Pipero. Pipero is a well-known personality on the Roman food scene. He …
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Topola Skies Resort and our active family holiday with children in Bulgaria
12 minutes readWe are on holiday but we walk more than 10 000 steps a day, the children even more. We are feeling great, all the tiredness is left far back in …
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What wine do Maltese people like? – This is what we asked Matthew Delicata, one of the owners of the oldest wine cellar in Malta – Delicata. It is also …
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Caught in the net of seafood pleasure: Tartarun restaurant in Marsaxlokk, Malta
6 minutes readTartarun Restaurant was included in the Michelin Guide Malta 2020 – the first ever Michelin Guide to Malta. “I went to culinary school because I did badly at school. But …
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Pocket voice translator: Do we need another gadget when travelling? – Review of VASCO TRANSLATOR M3
5 minutes readI remember our honeymoon to South Italy many years ago, when we were wandering on the streets of a village in Sicily, looking for a non-existing hotel. We stopped a …
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Bulgarian wine grape varieties – popular and lesser-known
10 minutes readDo you know any typical Bulgarian wine grape varieties? Have you tried some? Bulgarian wine is a lesser-known wine universe. Although it is sometimes absent from the major world wine …
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Here we are, between the Vosges mountain to the west, the Rhine river valley and the French-German border to the east, Switzerlnd to the south and Strasbourg to the north. …
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Zlaten Rozhen wine cellar, Bulgaria – where alchemy happens
9 minutes readWe first visited the new building of Zlaten Rozhen wine cellar on a cold February day in 2018. It had just opened in the village of Kapatovo, near the town …
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Domaine Weinbach, Alsace, France – winery with heritage from Capuchin friars
8 minutes readAt the foot of the majestic hill going by the name of Schlossberg, surrounded by vines and roses, lies Domaine Weinbach. Named after the little stream which runs through the …
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The magic of terroir at Domaine Paul Blanck et Fils winery, Alsace, France
10 minutes readFirst day in Alsace, we are staying at Ammerschwihr and have a meeting in the nearby Kientzheim village. We have no idea what to expect but we walk by the …
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I wonder why we hand’t gone for a weekend in Lovech earlier. Actually, there are so many towns in Bulgaria which we just do not count for travel destinations. We …
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Dining with Diners Club: La Table d’Olivier Nasti – our first Michelin experience, Kaysersberg, France
14 minutes readLa table d’Olivier Nasti and Chef Olivier Nasti have two Michelin stars and are a part of the Relais & Châteaux collection of luxury hotels and restaurants around the world. …
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Plovdiv is a wonderful city, the second-largest city in Bulgaria. It is a place worth visiting for a few days but I admit that we often go for just a …
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I woke up before sunrise, I hadn’t actually planned it. I got up, dressed quietly, trying not to wake up the kids and Mimi, and I sneaked out through the …
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Wave Resort, Pomorie – happy holidaying in Bulgaria with kids
19 minutes readDaddy, are we there yet? Three minutes after we leave, the conversations in the car sound like this. The impatience to go to the sea is huge. The thought of …
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I have made this trekking twice in July and both times the weather was variable – from sunny, through slightly cloudy to dark and stormy. This time the rain did …
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Finding Kokorko: Yalovo Winery and the traditional Bulgarian grape varieties
9 minutes readDimitar and I walk among the vineyards, somewhere between the Gamza and Dimyat plantations. The vines are young and this year they will give their first harvest. Hopefully, soon we …
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“This wine is very good!” – such words usually make a great start of our conversations with friends around the table. It was a fresh spring evening, great for an …
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We have to admit that we were skeptical about this wine. Who would name his wine Gorchivka (Bitterness)? Well, we knew that there must have been some game of words …
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We were in Sarafovo, a neighbourhood of Burgas, Bulgaria, and in the local shop they had just delivered fresh mussels from a farm on the southern seaside. Somehow, it always …
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What do you imagine when you hear White Sand? Well, no matter how hard we try to imagine anything else, we always see a seaside picture with beautiful white beach …
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It is not necessary to travel to the sea if you want to drink rose wine with seafood, but we sometimes do this. We open the doors of the balcony, …
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The Painted churches in the Troodos region, Cyprus island
9 minutes readIt was a warm day in the spring and we were near a village in Cyprus, somewhere in the Troodos mountains, in the region bearing the same name. In Cyprus …
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Rosaspina 2018 – Bulgarian sangiovese rose wine with Italian feeling
3 minutes readBulgaria is a real paradise for the wine connoisseurs – undiscovered, but very interesting, diversified and adventurous. In the days when we travelled more, we often used to head to …
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We are sitting on the veranda, the kids run on the sun-lit lawn and the trees have just understood that spring has come, but it is actually quite hot outside. …