Bulgarian Days

There were still blanks on the map of Europe after all.

Long before I even got there, the Rusenski Lom Nature Park had seemed a reluctant destination. A brief note in the guidebook had outlined the basics: the park consisted of a twisting series of gorges in northern Bulgaria, incised into a limestone plateau by one of the rivers that fed the Danube. But that was about all I had to go on. I’d arrived…