"Bulgaria, which used to be a top destination for a second place in the sun for Brits, has been seeing lately the Russians steadily replacing the Brits and Irish as the buyers on the market"---hopefully "those
Russians" won't disappoint Bulgaria ;-)....and-seriously- Bulgaria is it!
Calm, friendly people. Each time I visit Bulgaria, I feel it (apart from
the border control, sometimes ;-)...esp. last time, when-after visiting
Anechka (and her "Queen's Winery" on the Balchik Museum' territory) -I went by foot to my hotel "London"/"Musala" in.....Varna. Not 2, as I thought, but ~30 km distance. Oh, that period-from 11 PM till ~5AM - it was something! I had-by road-the utmost serious disputes with all the trees, birds (mainly owls), dogs(btw, dogs did get and approve each my word)....it was super. The main was that I riched the hotel.
So, Bulgaria is the safiest place on the Earth, imho...;-) and the Top
Destination, indeed.

sa-sha,
So funny! A nocturnal adventure to remember... :-)
Next time carry a flashlight when venturing that sort of excursion (assuming you did not have one on your trip back to Varna, lol).