Sozopol and Plovdiv

After leaving Bourgas, we headed to the small, ancient town of Sozopol. It is a bit like Nesebar but not quite as commercial and a little less crowded. It will be packed in August as that is when most Bulgarians take their holidays.
We had some free time in this town to shop and look out at the sea from cafes that were littered all over the town. It also is on a peninsula and it was very easy to walk from one side of the peninsula to the other. We wandered around and I have lots of photos of the ocean and beach from here.
We had lunch at the Windmill restaurant on top of a hill. It looked out over the sea and was just beautiful!
There was a small island not far out and the water was very blue. A man was fishing right down below us and there were boats going by. We had a great lunch there. Our first course was fish soup. I was really afraid I would not like it because it would be "fishy". Not so. It was delicious. It contained fish (of course) but also vegetables and lots of broth. Our main course was a stew that they brought to us in a flaming clay pot. OK, they lit the outside of the pot and it was not really flaming but it kept the stew really hot. The stew was so hot, we dipped it out on a plate to let it cool off so we could eat it. It was also very tasty. Baklava for dessert with ice cream on top. Yummy!
Next we headed for the town of Plovdiv. We walked form our hotel to a really nice restaurant that had a very Turkish feel to it. Plovdiv is the second largest town in Bulgaria so we should see some really cool things here!