I wonder if your brains ever lock up? It happens to me quite often and I haven't found out yet if this is a disease. I postpone visiting the doctor as much as I can because I'm afraid of not getting confirmation that it is a disease. Until then I remain hopeful that it's just a little wheel that stops every now and then.
I usually get it most often in summer, when the heat is sweltering, the wind is not blowing and I stay hidden in the house so the sun doesn't see me. The sun suspects where I am and lights up the walls of the house, to prove to me that I can't hide, that I don't stand a chance against its rays.
In these cases, my brain gets stuck on the image and memories of the sea. Of the seas that have passed and remain only in my feeble memory and photographic memory.
How does this blockage manifest itself? Quite simply, I see the sea everywhere, even if it is more than 200 km away from my home. Any conversation we have started on any subject ends with a reference to the sea. So with my posts. Whatever topic I find to write about, it ends up referring to the sea.
For #MarketFriday, this challenge given to us by 
This is the second place, after Balchik, also in Bulgaria, that I like a lot. Unfortunately, it's further away and that's why I rarely get there. I think I've only been here about five times.
Sozopol, like Balchik, is a small town with a big history. It was also founded by Greek colonists a few thousand years ago. Otherwise, it doesn't resemble Balchik and that makes me happy. This is the second place, after Balchik, also in Bulgaria, that I like a lot. Unfortunately, it's further away and that's why I rarely get there. I think I've only been here about five times.
Sozopol, like Balchik, is a small town with a big history. It was also founded by Greek colonists a few thousand years ago. Otherwise, it doesn't resemble Balchik and that makes me happy. It gives me the much-needed variety to keep me away from boredom.
Sozopol is like many other seaside towns, except that the old town is built on a small peninsula and is the main attraction for visitors who didn't come just for the beach. As am I and my two companions.
I know this post seems to be a travelogue and it doesn't seem related to #marketfriday, this community of those who search and tell stories about places to leave your money. I ask you, aren't holidays and travel the places where money flees out of your wallet the fastest? Especially on food. I always get hungry when I go to the seaside...
After long walks on the narrow and sloping streets of the old town, tiredness and hunger make themselves felt and force us to look for a place to satisfy them both. So my companions are on the lookout, and luckily, they have found the ideal place.
The restaurants, as small as the peninsula, are hidden from view. From the street, it looks like an ordinary house. Getting close, you can see the restaurant's sign and insignia. Neptune! That's its name, after the ancient Greek god of the seas.
To let us know that we are in Neptune's kingdom, a little mermaid is present among us. Unfortunately, only in the form of a bas-relief. I saw a mermaid at the seashore but she had already taken on the appearance of an earthling.
The restaurant is deserted. Naturally, because of the time and date, we are there. I forgot to mention that this year we tried to steal a start to the sea. We went to Sozopol at the end of May and the summer season starts there on 15 June, which is about two weeks later. That was both an advantage and a disadvantage.
It was good because it wasn't crowded, we could visit the city quietly, and we had wonderful walks. It was less good because many places I would have liked to go were still closed. From museums to a few restaurants that I liked. Neptune was open a few days before we got there, so that was good.
The restaurant's terrace is built above the rocks by the sea. The sea view is superb. In general, when I'm at a restaurant I'm anxious for the food I ordered to arrive as soon as possible. Here at Neptun, on the contrary! I liked that the food took a little longer to prepare. I had more time to admire the sea.
I've been to this restaurant many years ago. Then it was in the middle of the season, it was full of tourists and I could barely find a table in a corner.
Now we are the absolute masters, alone in the restaurant. We can explore the place a bit.
I could also see the small kitchen and even the chef. He didn't have his uniform on because he didn't think he would have customers.
In fact, we weren't even alone in the restaurant. In every restaurant, there are these little creatures that would be happy to eat with you.
The long-awaited food has been delivered. I don't even know what I ate, I forgot to take pictures of it all. In any case, there was no shortage of fish soup. I always eat that when I'm at the sea. I think that's how I taste the sea!
My companions preferred more salads, cheese fries, and sweets.
I still remember something special that I ate for the first time. Grilled cheese with a garnish of figs. Unexpectedly good!
It was fine. This lunch of ours also had something special and unique. After all, we didn't eat alone...
Usually, at such restaurants and especially at terraces, uninvited diners come. Most of them
were dogs and cats.
This time we had a big surprise... someone knocked on the window!
For the first time, I ate with the seagulls. Only a closed window separated us. So we could see them up close.
The seagulls would have liked even closer but we risked running out of food.
Joy to the "girls"! Their pleasure in feeding someone.
Eating With The Seagulls! This experience was the strangest thing that happened to us in Sozopol. This is the charm of traveling. Visiting places, enjoying all sorts of things and happenings. Of course, there can be unpleasant happenings, but what's worse we must forget and stay with the pleasure of the good ones. I think this is the reason we keep going out to see the world.
Always a flower, always a flower at the end, #alwaysaflower! The flower that always tells me that summer is starting and I have to go to the sea! The poppy!
I don't know if what I'm doing now is right, but I'd still like to justify some choices I'm making. Namely, the choice of communities where I send my posts. With the advent of so many communities specializing in a topic, it becomes somewhat difficult to choose the right one. Especially for our blogs that fall into more than one topic. Like travel, photography, walking, shopping...
Every trip includes taking photos, walking, and shopping, but all posts should be put in #pinmapple. Sometimes photography or walking or shopping takes precedence and then I post in #PhotographyLovers or #WednesdayWalk or #MarketFriday but I can't omit the travel component, somewhere else in the world or even in the city where I live. I also have to put #pinmapple. I know it's not fair to indicate two different communities for the same post... If I am wrong in doing so I wish to apologize to those offended!
On the other hand, I like to travel and document these journeys with photos, stories, and reports of personal experiences. I consider myself a travel minimalist. That is, I like to tell stories about small events in small places. If the story is too big, I like to break it into several parts.
For me, even eating at a restaurant when I'm on vacation or when I'm in the city where I live is still a journey. It means a place on this earth known to me at the time but unknown to most who may be reading. I show what the food is like and what I see around me not to show how good it is for me and how lucky I am to be there. I show to show other people like me what it is like in a part of this world they may never get to. For lack of interest, lack of opportunity, or for whatever reason. I think there are people who are interested in knowing the world this way. I am interested. I don't know, I think, more than 80% of the city I've lived in for fifty years. If someone posts about a place in my city that I don't know, I'm glad to see it and will then take a walk there (or not).
That's why I think it's good to put these places on the map using #pinmapple, even if the post isn't necessarily about travel. I think so but I've often wondered if I'm abusing this tag, #pinmapple. If I do, I apologize again!