We got up early and enjoyed seeing Terminal 5

Waiting

Wonky Building in Sophia snapped from the coach

Arrive from Sofia Airport at the Studena Hotel, a hunting lodge frequented by the Russians in the bad old days.   After unpacking we had an afternoon walk along the roadside from the hotel and in the meadows around finding flowers and insects.

On the 21st I did not feel well until 10.00 so was left behind.   I went out round the hotel again and explored more thoroughly taking pictures.

American pine

Hypericum perforatum

Coronilla varia

Astragalus glycyphylos

Queen of Spain fritillary

and in close up

Robin's pin cushion

Echium vulgare

Black Veined white

Leucanthemum vulgare

Tragopogon pratense

Heath Fritillary - food plant meadow cow-wheat melampyrum pratense

Common Blue

Speckled Yellow - very poor photo, but the only butterfly I saw.

Vincetoxicum - Swallow wort

Melampyrum scardicum

Common blues mating

Melampyrum scardicum

Meadow brown

Six spot burnet

Salvia

Cinnabar and Burnet

Not very sharp, but a lovely little blue bug

Beadle or Soldier bug

Clouded Yellow

Lathyrus tuberosus

Burnet again

Chafer

Caterpillars' web

Small skipper

Vicia grandiflora

Studena dining room ready for the evening meal -  salad starter and venison main course

Monochrome treatment of the view from the terrace on the first evening