Sofia - day 1

After two flights and three hours spent on a plane, miles and miles of white Bulgarian fields welcomed us. Although most of the snow in Belgium has disappeared, Sofia is still covered in dirty white piles of it. Our hotel is quite nice, in the middle of the city. We were driven to the hotel by a scary taxi driver in a crappy car. He didn’t even close the trunk, so we were constantly worrying about the luggage falling out. In the taxi we sang along with Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes (the taxi driver even turned up the volume for us)

Me and Laura have a room looking out on the biggest mountain here. We have to do a presentation tomorrow about Local Social Policy in Antwerp and we seem to be the only country that has actually prepared something. Tonight we went out for dinner with the professor that’s accompanying us for the first week. He wanted to go to a “typical Bulgarian restaurant” so we ended up at “rASTORant - magic show”. It looked extremely sleazy on the outside but was actually nice on the inside and the food wasn’t bad at all. After asking our check the owners on the restaurant forced us to watch a 10-minute magic show. The guy was extremely creepy and the show wasn’t all that great. But we had fun and the professor is actually a really funny old guy. Good start of the next two weeks.