Monday, 01-Sept-2025, through Wednesday, 03-Sept-2025
One of the big escapes of this adventure in Bulgaria was Sinemoritz – a small town on the Black Sea that Andrea has worked at for a summer. Beaches, summer sun, and relaxation were the name of the game.
With that in mind… here’s the photos. There really isn’t much to tell that the photos don’t say – we relaxed on the sand, swam in the sea, and ate some simply incredible food.
Relaxing was the name of the game. And we excelled.
Dear Lord, how long has it been since I’ve slept in a tent?
Sat by a fire?
Enjoyed the cool air outside of a city?
Well, that last one I was able to get every so often by sneaking out to Howth, or Bray… but they’re still close to the city, you know? You can feel the city nearby, if not actively smell it in the air… and getting out into the woods outside of Waterford meant that we couldn’t really even see any city lights!
Now, this is Ireland, of course. And so you’re never ACTUALLY away from a town. We could still see some farmhouses in the distance, and there were some lights that shone nearby in the evening once dark fell. But you know what? I could smell the trees, hear the gurgling of a nearby brook, and we had an absolutely lovely fire going on to keep warm and to amuse us with the crackling of the logs.
That’s right – City-girl Andrea came camping too! Now, to be clear, this wasn’t nearly her first time camping – and while I was cooking up burgers for dinner, she was handily getting the fire started and the camp chairs set up. A good delegation of labor, a hallmark of us brilliant MBA students.
The next day, we even had chance to hike up to Crotty’s lake itself!
Now’s as good a time as any to introduce my dear readers to Crotty – a highwayman and bandit from the… well, from the unknown history of the Waterford region. According to the owner of the land (yep, this is Ireland, and so everything is privately owned. Including the lake, and the mountain it resides on), Crotty was one of the inspirations for Robin Hood – an assertion I’m not completely convinced by… but I’ll leave this link for my readers to peruse at their own leasure:
That’s what the sunset looked like from the van, sometime a little bit before I started thinking about heading to bed. Pretty, and definitely worth photographing, but… you know, nothing too crazy.
What it looked like from the air, though… that’s a different story.
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Those two are the best of the rest.
And when I say that they’re the best… I am staggered by how well they turned out. The rest are amazing in their own right, but these two… these are getting printed for my new apartment in Dublin, no doubt in my mind.
