A Resort Of The Past

Greetings, fellow travelers by land, sea, sky, or web!

Today I will be showing you a few details of...mostly the bungalows of various camping sites spread across the forest of Kamchia Reserve, Bulgaria. I don't know if you will get that feeling but they have some nostalgia quality to me. Remnants of the past. If I miss it, it is the childhood memories speaking.

So, I should call those various sides Camps. That's what they were. Each with its own style. Once upon a time, they were controlled by the state and given to certain institutions to use. You couldn't go to any camp. This camp belonged to that school, for instance, and that camp belonged to that certain factory, etc.

The truth is, I am not sure about those camps in particular. Some of them might have been slightly more...modern. I mean some of them might have been built after the totalitarian regime.

Anyway, they are still in the forest which is...mostly there and preserved. And they are quite near to a long beach at the mouth of the river.

The camps are not that preserved, though. No maintenance for most of them. The funny thing is, we were able to see people using some of the structures. So perhaps ownership is established for some of them and they are partially used...I wonder if any of them will be restored to the former state.

It would be a pity, kind of, to lose those varying styles otherwise.

Well, new camps are being built, by the way, and one of them was what we used. The dampness problem and the cold nights are still present. Probably they always were and things got better depending on the season.

And some new mega complexes by major investors obviously found their way into the reserve as well. The area is vast and it still feels not much of the forest was lost.

We can only hope it stays that way.

And this is how a beach restaurant of the past looks.

Take care!

Yours,

Manol