Cold War History
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Simply put – here’s all the unique things I saw in Bulgaria that were cool, but not big enough to warrant their own blog posts! IN LISTICLE FORM!! #1 – A Fighter Jet in the Middle of Nowhere ✈️ Now this is obscure. We stayed at my friend’s Aunt and Uncle’s house in the village…
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Context! Apologies for not posting in the last few days! I’ve been gathering my thoughts on what I’ve seen and my overall thoughts on Bulgaria but I’m excited to do some more writing. I’ve still got 2-3 more posts planned, don’t worry! It was the 1990s, Communism had just fallen, and Bulgaria had a problem.…
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Context! Okay, first a confession – I am definitely not a military enthusiast. I’ve never read a Tom Clancy novel. I can’t identify a Panzer tank based on one blurry photograph. I’ve certainly never leaked classified data because a game got minor details about an army tank wrong (this actually happened). However, I do have…
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Context! Bulgaria has a… complicated relationship with the Communist era. Of course it was an era of great hardship, repression and surveillance, but the Communist government also (broadly) brought security, stable jobs and improvements to public infrastructure. After Bulgaria moved to democracy, the country’s economy collapsed for several years – it’s still one of the…
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![🚌 [Bonus] Kelvedon Hatch – visiting by public transport](https://coffeefrog.travel.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image_editor_output_image261896263-1632081772818.jpg?w=804)
(This is a companion to the main post I did on Kelvedon Hatch bunker, which can be found here). Visiting Kelvedon Hatch by public transport is possible, albeit awkward. Even the website doesn’t really advise it. I made the journey myself in May 2021, and to help anyone else who wants to do it, I’ve…
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Context! At the height of the Cold War, the British Government constructed a network of sophisticated underground bunkers in the event of that a nuclear war broke out. These were designed to shield the government, scientists and other people they deemed important enough to save in the event of a nuclear holocaust, or at least…
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