Guus Bosman

Yesterday we traveled from Perushtitsa to Sofia. It was warm in de bus, and we found some English magazines so the journey went quickly. The trip took about 2,5 hours.

First we went to Svetla and Radoslav's apartment. Finally we were able to give them their wedding present!

I received some nice presents too, among which a very useful part for the server of Guus Bosman.nl (for the insiders, it's a raid controller). When I'm back in Holland I'll write more about it.

We spent the evening in a restaurant near their house, and We also met Milena there. She's a friend of Sasha that somehow I had never seen before. It was great to finally meet her in real.

The restaurant was wonderful, the best one I've seen till now in Bulgaria. The food was delicious, very polite service and the fact that they served wine from Perushtitsa helped a lot too. And of course... a long night ;) We stayed almost five hours in the restaurant, and later we went to a bar.

I'm using Radoslav's computer now (thanks!), hopefully we'll be able to send our New Year's card in a little while.

I'm in an internet cafe in Plovdiv now. It's a local "internet club", which is mainly visited by kids playing games. The price for internet access in this cafe is about 35 euro cents per hour, probably the cheapest of the places I've visited
so far.

Yesterday we visited Zdravka and her family, and we're still in Plovdiv now. We'll meat Rangel and Nasko in a little while, to look at some computer stuff. We have a relatively busy schedule today, with a couple of things to be done and arranged before we see Milena and David tonight. I'm really looking forward to that.

It looks like it has snowed here more than in Perushtitsa -- in fact, it's snowing right now.

Second Christmas day is a holiday in Bulgaria, just like in the Netherlands. We visited Sasha's uncle and aunt, Rangel and Danche, in the afternoon. The welcomed us with a traditional masa, rougly translated "table". A lot of eating and drinking, and a lot of talking and fun. Really nice. Rangel had cooked a small pig for Christmas.

Later in the evening we went out: Nasko, Reina, Sasha and me. It was the first time I went to a bar in Perushtitsa, which was quite interesting. Perushtitsa is a small city, where everybody knows each other so there were a lot of familiar people coming into the bar (familiar to my Bulgarian friends, that is).