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!
Wow, when September comes in Sofia the weather is really like: “Summer’s OVER and that’s the end of THAT!”
It’s 8.30 in the evening. It’s 10 degrees outside and the temperature is going to drop to 2 degrees tonight! What the fuck. Brrrrrrrrr.
Found the following message on Facebook:
Illegal buildings against the biggest protected area in Bulgaria – Strandja Natural Park! Take action now! Sign a petiotion and send it to az many people you can!
Here is the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/strandja-bg/
and the gallery to make you feel the environment in Strandja, Bulagria, if you have not been there: http://forthenature.org/gallery/10/
SIGN!
Grrr, doesn’t let me upload pictures without the program and I don’t have internet at home. Besides that, apparently the RSS feed is malfunctioning, so I have no idea how to get to my pictures on Picasa right now. Anyway, here are some pictures I took of Sofia. It’s my street and the surrounding area. No more than a minute’s walk away from my building :-). As always, click for bigger versions!
I’m going to enjoy this 🙂
When I come back to Holland, I owe Anton’s mother one for helping me get into BNR. Okay, there are three things that I’ll be doing in the next while.
1. Help with music programming for Radio Sofia (tune in). They launch the 17th, but are already broadcasting music and only music.
2. Work in the editing room for Radio Bulgaria. I’ll be co-responsible for editing the news on the English website, but also other content (I guess I’ll be using Photoshop and making slideshows, etc).
3. Join reporters and help them out. Awesome.
Today I met more people and more was explained to me. Plus, I programmed the Friday night music from midnight until 7. You only get about 1-2 hours to do it and I’m not familiar with the database of their music, so it was a lot of browsing, clicking, dragging without too much thinking and organizing. Which is too bad, but maybe this will change after the launch of the radio.
Anyway, this is great experience. I was already making mixes (2 will be uploaded soon) and now I can create playlists for the radio and help mix. Sweet. This exceeds my expectations. You can tune in on Friday (23.00-6.00 Dutch time) right here.
P.S. The video is going to be on Youtube too, but I have to go home and compress it before I can upload it. I want internet at home.. Pfff.
P.P.S. This weekend: travel to Veliko Turnovo and stay there one night and on Saturday I’ll watch Bulgaria vs Holland in Murphy’s, together with a group of Dutchmen stuck in Sofia 😉 Sweet.
P.P.P.S. I know it sounds like a lot to do in one weekend, but it’s a national holiday on Thursday and Friday, so no work. Cool.
P.P.P.P.S. Note to self: learn how to write posts without having to use so many P.S.’s.
Okay, I got a lot of requests of pictures of my apartment.. So I went the extra mile and made a video for you all to see. Take the tour here!
Instructions:
Enjoy!
Funny to see Bulgarian people have the same attitude towards Bush as the Dutch 😉
Click pictures for bigger version.
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Hey Spartz! About your photos… You’ve run into one of the limits of a free account. Your free account will only display the most recent 200 photos you’ve uploaded. All of your photos beyond 200 will remain hidden from view until you either delete newer photos, or upgrade to a Pro account.None of your photos have been deleted, and if you upgrade, they’ll all come back unharmed.
Someone recommend me a better website to upload my pictures to. Or:
😉 Just joking.
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