Blogs from Bulgaria, Europe - page 58

Wow!!! It was grand, really amazing.... the boys can sing (live), that's for sure! Cameras weren't allowed in, sadly, so no photos. (there were some who'd snuck cameras in, but generally they were the tiny ones you can hide in your crotch) For those really keen, check out these links for the pics: http://netinfo.bg/photo/depechemodeinsofia/ & http://moonchild.decart.bg/DM/ Sooooooooo.......... we had to wait for hours. We arrived at 7.00pm, I was with Emma (best friend from primary school) and a couple of her friends. We bumped into Maria (my other best friend from primary school), she was with her own gang of people somewhere else. They were playing recorded music till about 8.30, lots of Bjork, PJ Harvey (the song that i like), a bit of this and that... track from Kruder & Dorfmeister CD, then the warm ... read more

Guess what!??!?! Depeche Mode is coming to Sofia on the 21st, and Bucarest on the 23rd. It will probably be sold out by the time I get to Bucarest, but if not I'm definitely going. "Reach out and touch me..." Yesterday I went on a hike up to Vitosha natl' Park, the mountain only a few kilometers from Sofia. The taxi ride there was crazy, with the driver making up lanes, muttering in Bulgarian and hitting the ceiling of the taxi at random times. I rode up the lift half-way up the mountain, the other lift, apparently, "ne rabotayet" wasn't working, though I think it was just because there was nobody else there so they didn't want to run it just for me. I was trying to hike up to cherni vrukh, the black peak which ... read more

I was a little nervous about going to Bulgaria- even the Eurotrash hostellers, some of them said they wouldn't go there. Well, its a great city- people are quiet, unlike Athens, and the numbers are almost the same as Russian so its more comprehensible. I am staying at a great hostel with free breakfast, the food is really cheap - 2 liters of fanta = 1 euro, and a yogurt drink is 25 cents instead of 80 in Greece. Its very nice, I'm going to try to hike a little tomorrow. I am going to go watch a world cup match downstairs, ciao! (that's what they say here, too.)... read more

I spent a very lazy couple of months in Bulgaria in the company of my family and old friends, lounging about and enjoying the simple pleasures in life. It was very gratifying. I soaked up some new stories of what I've missed out on in the past 5 years. Also soaked up some old and forgotten memories, visited the attic upstairs and found some old toys of mine, looked through a collection of old records but found nothing of great value, looked at old black-and-white photographs of my grandparents and their kids: mum and aunty.... at the beach, wearing funny bathing suits, admired my grandfather in his old airforce uniform, etc... etc... I've also been soaking up a bit of sun, been working on my tan a bit. After returning from the Black Sea the second ... read more

Dobre Den everyone...... Greetings from sunny Bulgaria!!!! We drove from the Carpathian mountains back to Bucharest where we boarded a train for the 2 hour run to Constanta......which actually took 5 hours. The ship was ready. Cabins are really large and the public rooms very nice. Dinners have been wnderful so far and are served, with lunch and breakfast being buffet style. Today we rode by bus to 2 beautiful towns, Abrenassi and Veliko Tarnovo, both of which go back to the middle ages. Now we are back in Ruse, which is our port on the Danube. This internet cafe was not easy to find and we have to figure out how to get back to the ship, so gonna be shot. One of these days I'll be able to upload some pics. Bob... read more