On the southeastern fringes of Europe, Bulgaria is only just gaining a reputation tourist destination with huge potential. But while it’s already pulling in visitors to its Black Sea beaches, its ...

Determined to save themselves from a “vanilla life,” Maureen Thomson and Jeremy Myers relocated from the US to Mexico, then to Ecuador, before settling in Bulgaria.

A maintenance crew running a test on the lift at the Seven Rila Lakes, discovered that the main cable and safety lines had been deliberately cut overnight. Slavaiko Staikov, manager of the maintenance ...

A woman went to bathe in the protected lake "Babreka" in the Rila mountains. Despite the ban on bathing in the Rila lakes, this is not the first such incident. However, it is difficult to identify and ...

Charlie Kitcat stays in a modest £18-a-night room in Bulgaria’s holiest location, Rila Monastery The first light shines through the curtainless window, then I hear a faint trickle of water and a ...

The first light shines through the curtainless window, then I hear a faint trickle of water and a chorus of birdsong. My eyes open to see the lone picture of Mother Mary beside my bed. And bells begin ...