Black Sea · Experience & Insights

Written from somewhere, on a date.

Field reports from actual stays, regional pieces about how the coast works, and guides for the decisions in between.

Essays

A stay, a season or a place, taken as a whole.

Long wooden tables in a garden at night under string lights and a canopy

Essays · Trip reportJuly–August 2026

Six weeks in Vetren: the programme didn't build the community, the people did

A stay booked as a fortnight with an exit, extended to six weeks. The role meant to bring the group together went unfilled in practice that summer, guests and the owner did it instead, and most of what mattered that month happened a hundred metres outside the gate.

Thomas

Food & drink

What there is to eat and drink, from the table to the kiosk.

Two clay pots of roasted meat with peas and vegetables

Food & drink · RegionalJuly–August 2026

Bulgarian food, from the coliving table to the street kiosk

Clay-pot stews, a moussaka built on potatoes, a salad invented for tourists that became a national symbol, and the grill-stand classics that go with beer. A short field guide to what turns up on the table around Burgas, and where the shopping happens when you live fifteen kilometres out.

Thomas