Wow Czech Airlines, wow!

DEAR MS -last name spelled wrong even though it was at the bottom of the email they’re replying to-
YOU HAVE TO DECLARE EXTRA LUGGAGE AT CHECK-IN DESK AT THE TIME OF DEPARTURE.
PLEASE BE INFORMED 1/ONE/ EXTRA KILO COASTS EUR 16,-
BEST REGARDS
CSA CZECH AIRLINES SOFIA-D.SKENDEROVA
Caps Lock + misspelling my name + calling me Ms. while I’m [...]

Money, money, money

Two days before I finish my work here, I decided to calculate how much I actually make per day. I work full-time in a decent paying job, I’m around the national average.
Make a guess in your mind.
Any guess.
Don’t read on until you have made a guess.
Okay, ready? How about less than sixteen per day, but [...]

Conversion rates

When going to Bulgaria, don’t just take financial conversion rates into account. If you’re used to a rather punctual society, or culture, there’s another conversion rate into account.
When someone says “I’ll call you at 7.30″, that means they’ll call you somewhere between 8 and 8.30 in Bulgarian time.
Just a note for if you ever go [...]

Is it too late to say Happy New Year?

Okay, it’s been a while. Actually, it’s been three weeks. The longer I waited with posting, the more I had to tell, the less I felt like making time to tell all of it. This kept looping and looping, until now. I present to you…
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Three weeks of Bas – in bullet points
self-indulgence

Bouwe & Roos arrived [...]

Merry Christmas from Sofia!

Hi everyone!
I’d like the chance to wish you all some happy holidays! I’m waiting for Bouwe & Roos to arrive at the airport here. What else? I uploaded pictures to my Picasa album. I’ll start updating the daily photoblog also. After all, I said daily. Not much to add really. Enjoy the week everybody!
Oh, and [...]

Xmas Gifts

If anyone feels like doing something special for me this Christmas, please do me a favour and get me a gift here.
Now that’s a special gift.

10 things I want…

when I come back. I need your peer pressure to make this happen

When I come back to Holland I want to live in Amsterdam.
When I come back to Holland I want to cut down alcohol to lower levels or maybe quit completely.
When I come back I want to start networking in various [...]

Day-After

Missed calls from numbers I don’t know.
No coins in my wallet.
Waking up with a head ache at 4.30 pm.
Not recognizing some of the names in my telephone.
About a 1 second recollection of this morning’s busride.

Boy, I must have had so much fun last night!

Shift happens

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was ill for a week and I’m not really in the swing of things anymore. This week I might go to the mountains to take pictures since it’s the start of the ’snow season’ there. Oh, did I mention it will be for my work? Sweet.
Anyway, I [...]

Day one of being a vegetarian…

starts with resentment.
Nuff said.
I should add that I feel that I have no choice after seeing a film called ‘Earthlings’. Check it out below.