The thing about not blogging while on vacation is that you have a lot to write about when you get back. Me? I always have way more to say than I ever have time to write.

The good news is that I had a great time in Sozopol and I took a ton of photos. In fact yesterday night I uploaded more than <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/" target="_blank">75 photos to Flickr</a>. That's a lot of photos.

One of the reasons that we went to Sozopol this weekend rather than some other stretch of beach on the Black Sea was because of the Apollonia music festival. We were in Sozopol for three nights and we went to two different shows.

The first night--Sunday for us--we saw a jazz piano and guitar duo. I'd say it was experimental jazz and it took a little bit to get into. We didn't have great seats and the lighting wasn't great but the space was really cool. Partially covered partially uncovered with long bar and bar stools it felt suitably jazzy. The space also never felt overly smokey due to the set up.

The second night and the last night of the festival we saw a 1940s-esque big band group. They were incredibly fun. I danced on and off in my chair for the whole show while most Bulgarians sat in their chairs hardly taping their feet. They were a very serious crowd or don't like dancing in their chairs as much as I do. And if you ask me, that's a shame. The group is pretty clearly meant to be danced to.

The group is named <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SentimentalSwingers" target="_blank">The Sentimental Swingers and the M. Yossifov Sextet</a>. They seem to regularly have shows in Sofia. I think that if you like big band music/boogie woogie or if you like fun this is a group that's worth checking out.