As we checked out of our hotel we were given a bottle of Bulgarian red wine because of the change of room, that's the way to make sure you aren't given a bad review. There was also more discussion regarding snakes, spiders and crocodiles!
As we drove down the Black Sea coast we stopped off for coffee at Golden Sands and we were surprised to see a nice sandy beach for a change and lots of people swimming. We dipped our toes in the Black Sea and decided we would take a swim when we got to our destination of Sunny Beach.
We drove on to Nessebar for lunch which is an old town on an island that is now joined by a bridge, it is a popular day trip for people holidaying on the coast so was busy, hot and full of souvenir shops and fake designer clothing.
We checked into our hotel at Sunny Beach and spotted the amusement park next door, we had read reviews that is could be a little noisy but we didn't expect it to worry us. We got changed and headed to the beach and that's when the shock happened. We have never seen so many people at such a massive beach. Sunny Beach and it's neighbours are part of a huge bay and as far as you could see there were people, on the sand and in the ocean. Rather dumbfounded we went down to the waters edge and instead of being met with the blue ocean that we had seen on our entire three months we were looking at brown, murky water with things floating past that don't belong in the ocean. Very disappointing, too many people had polluted the beach. We decided to go for a walk but the more we saw the more we didn't like it, think Kuta Bali on steroids with no culture. Luckily we found an OK restaurant to pass some time.
By the time we got back to our room, passing the snake and iguana handlers, the tattooists and the alcohol stalls we found the amusement park in full swing outside our window - and that noise continued until 6am!
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