To put a lot story short I'm stuck in Bulgaria for the foreseeable future for a multitude of (interesting) reasons.
To be 100% honest with you I greatly dislike it here, and want to go somewhere affordable-ish for about a week for vacation (probably in Europe).
Things I dislike here that I would like to avoid in the vacation destination:
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Insanely bad air pollution & cigarette smoking everywhere 24/7
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Lack of affordable/accessible good food
(Any ethnic cuisine I have tried tasted maybe at most 50% like how it should, even in very expensive restaurants. Supermarkets have extremely poor frozen food variety and the taste isn't good either. The food variety in general I find to be very poor. I just want a change because I think I am dying from nutrient and soul food deficiency)
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Extremely poor shopping experience
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Poor and inaccessible hiking
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Grumpiness of people/toxic behaviour
Honestly most of these factors would possibly be solved by going literally anywhere else with poor variety just for a change of pace.
Places I have been considering:
Poland (because they have good services)
Portugal (affordable and good food?)
Spain (high quality of living, outgoing people?)
Albania (amazing nature)
Czechia (more developed, so more variety)
Estonia (kind of curious about a more affordable version of Scandinavia?)
I do like beaches but am hoping to go somewhere before summer hits full force because I don't tolerate extreme heat well. Sorry for the super long post, could really use some input
I think you'd like Prague, Barcelona, Toulouse. Albania is just as bad smoking-wise, I'm not too familiar with Estonia. I think you'd enjoy Portugal as well :) I've only done a few days in each, never with a strict itinerary but just hoping for great food and cool sights. Toulouse was surprisingly one of my favorite choices but it's a little less flashy
Tbh I really liked Norway and Denmark but they're outside of my budget rn unless I want to camp out the whole time in Norway. Portugal it is