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 [...]

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 [...]

A busy week and a trip to Plovdiv

It’s been a long week. Last Saturday night I was waiting for my parents to arrive at Sofia airport. On my way to find a bus or a taxi to the airport I find out it’s snowing! So I go to the airport, stand between a crowd of Bulgarians waiting for people to arrive. After [...]

Weekend Recap

What a weekend. Friday morning I left for Troyan with my colleague and her husband to make a report on an event there. Took a lot of pictures. That evening we went to have dinner with all the people who were invited to the event. The deputy mayor of Troyan sent a group of students [...]

Video – Balkan Youth Festival ‘07

For the people on slower connections, click here for a lower quality (faster loading) version.

Balkan Youth Festival ‘07

The article as I wrote it for the broadcast on the English channel of Radio Bulgaria on Tuesday. Let’s see how much they keep. I’ll inform you tomorrow about the times and where you can find a webstream.
The twelfth edition of the Balkan Youth Festival was one of European intercultural exchange by participants coming from [...]

Back!

I don’t know what it is, but every time I attend any sort of festival it follows this pattern:
1) You arrive, full of energy.
2) Every day, you are more enthusiastic yet feel physically worse.
3) At the end you barely have enough energy left to do anything.
I’m in a restaurant around the corner from my appartment [...]

Bulgaria by night

By the way, is the menu at the right all the way down far you too? I have no idea how I messed it up, probably forgot to close a tag somewhere. Will fix it, or if I just post a lot it will fix itself when the post moves from [...]

My two days in Veliko Turnovo

Pictures here! Pictures here! Pictures here!
It all starts in Sofia. I head to the bus center to get a ticket for the bus to Veliko Turnovo. I get the ticket, call a hostel and book a bed for the night. Then I realize I left my passport at my apartment. I decide to get a [...]

Veliko Turnovo

Short message from the hostel (great hostel by the way, Ill let you know later). Just wanted to let you know that Veliko Turnovo (in Central Bulgaria) is a beautiful place and when I find an internet café in Sofia tomorrow, there will be a lot of pictures (no graffiti)!
Hang in there!