Dobrich Things to Do

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besides the fresh air and the birds songs in this lovely park there are lots of dead trees which started its new lives. A local artist is spending his free time reviving those trees making them a wonderful tree art review.

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Dobrich is the regional capital of the area stretching to the Black Sea. During visits I have been to Balchic, Albena Golden Sands and St. Konstantin & Elena. Each one is very different to the others. Balchic is developing facilities for wealthier tourists with new golf courses and a marina. Also there is the old summer palace of the queen of Romania and the botanical gardens. Albena is a family resort with everything needed for a seaside holiday in one area. It also has a bus terminus and plenty of taxis if you want to travel about, I found the taxi drivers particularly helpful and most of them had good English. Golden Sands is the brashest and liveliest and tries to cater for the clubbers as well as families.
My favourite was St. Konstantin & St. Elena, named after the church in the centre of the resort. There are hotels and restaurants to suit most tastes and budgets. There is a regular bus service to Varna or Golden Sands if you need more stimulation but the resort has developed from an old spar town and there are still hot pools and massage booths among the tourist stalls and cafes. I tried several of the pavement cafes and found the food mostly good and the Dolce Vita Italian restaurant in the Grand Varna Hotel was excellent. A great resort for older families and couples.

in the very beginning of the street you will see a little bakery where they bake "gevreci". ..oh, they are so yummy-hot, taken right out of the oven. On the right hand side of the bakery there is a small "boza-djiinica". Here you can eat your gevrek with a fresh made "boza".

1 gevrek costs 0.30lv (1$=1.6lv)

this is how the pottery workshop looks from outside; the name is "Chupi Kupi" which translates into sometghin like " If you break it, you byu it!". It is not so easy to break though. First time i wanted to buy something i was afraid it might be easy to break it during my travel, so the lady took one of the plates and threw it against the floor...it did not break. But she says also that if you break something you'll have to make a new pottery yourself under the guidance of her two sons, who create all these amazing beaty!

"The old Dobrich" is a smal "open-air" museum located in the modern downtown on the place where once upon of the time "Odun charshia" existed. It houses about 30 workshops where craftsmen practice their skills. You can see workshops for pottery, furriery, traditional costumes, traditional instruments; woodcarving, coppersmithery,goldsmithery and so many more.

The gallery has history on its own: the building used to house the City Court until 1940,then it was a Police station (one can still see the cells) and then it was used by the Communist Party till 1981.

it has a great website and it has english version too

Working time:
9.00 – 12.30 / 13.30 – 18.00
monday - friday

it's hard to describe- it's dry and salty made out of dough..heheh.......great for breakfast with boza and ayryan boza = thick fermented drink made ot different kind of flour, but the best is from millet; boza is drank in other Balkan countries- it came from Turky.
ayryan= also comes from Turkey = yogurt and water