I left to Bulgaria on August 12th with my friend Pavel. We bought a 2 week trip from a travel agency and we stayed in a room in the 3 star hotel Yunona in Sunny Beach. Our flight from Prague was very early in the morning, we had to be at the airport at 4am and the departure was at 6am. After arriving in Burgas we took a bus to our hotel and the journey took one hour although it was only 30 km far away. The first day it rained and it was relatively cold, only around 25°C. We had a lunch in the Chinese restaurant which was close to our hotel. The following day we travelled to Burgas and we bought a parasol there, we got it for 8.50 Leva which was advantageous comparing to renting it on the beach every day. We preferred Burgas to Sunny Beach because there were less tourists and the beach wasn't very crowded.

We were overall satisfied with the quality of our hotel and the cleaning service, but I didn't enjoy the breakfast which was included in the price of our trip. We were served the same food every day and the quality was mediocre, although several times the sausages were burned to the extent that they were inedible. We used to go to the restaurants for a dinner, they were usually not expensive and the food was tasty, but very oily. We went once to the restaurant Djanny which was probably the most popular because in the evening there were long queues and we went several times to the restaurant Troya. I enjoyed fruit cocktails in Sunny Beach, the price was around 5 Leva and I tried many of them, for example Sex on the beach, Tequila Sunrise or Pina Colada.
Before arriving in Bulgaria we planned visiting Istanbul because it was nearby, only 200 km far from Burgas, but when buying a ticket from the company Metro we were told that the journey would take 7 hours. My friend Pavel decided that he didn't want to join me during the trip and he stayed in Sunny Beach and I left to Istanbul alone on August 17th. The journey was long, we waited around one hour at the border and in Istanbul we got stuck in a traffic jam close to the bus station Esenler. Then I had to continue by metro and tram and finally I took a ferry to Uskudar where I arrived around 10.30pm. I met my host and we went for a dinner to a restaurant. My host had a very nice flat in a skyscraper in the modern part of Istanbul called Atesehir on the Asian side. The following day we visited the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia and Basilica Cistern.

We had a lunch in a local fast food. On Sunday my host was busy and I met a couchsurfer who I had met already in Prague weeks ago, we went to the Topkapi Palace and in the evening to Taksim where I ate some spicy mussels on the street and then we went to a bar where we met my host and later we joined him at a disco. We stayed out late and we got to a bed around 5am. The last day we took a ferry to the island close to Istanbul in the Marmara sea, there were no cars but many carriages. We had to pay 10 Liras to enter the beach, we took some photos and then in the evening we ordered home some Turkish pizza and watched the Koran movie Oldboy. In the morning I went to Esenler where I took a bus to Burgas. I went to a beach there and in the evening I returned to Sunny Beach and I went for a dinner with Pavel to a restaurant. During the remaining time in Bulgaria we visited Varna, Nessebar and Burgas again. There were not many things to visit in Varna but Nessebar was picturesque. We swam in the sea there and the waves were big. The last day in Sunny Beach we also swam in the sea and in the afternoon we took a bus to Burgas and finally we returned in Prague around 6pm on Sunday 26th August.