Cultures, weather and essential stuff to buy

How is the weather in Blagoevgrad?

Well, in the first two week it was really hot (35 to 40 °C). You have to know that I prefer the cold than the heat, unless I’m biking....Thus it is a bit to hot for me here. We were melting in our room (30 °C) while trying to study, to read or something even more exciting. If it is possible we try to spend the time at Aqua Park, a swimming bath 15 min. from the dorms, or enjoying the evenings sitting outside, drink a beer, having a blanket party and so on…

Going out culture. In Austria we are used to go out late, that means after 11 or 12 o’clock… In Blagoevgrad they are more used to go out a bit later (after 1 o’clock). Maybe an association with the time differences between Bulgaria and Austria? (Bulgaria is 1 hour ahead of Austria) I wouldn’t know. Alike I perceive they have only have clubs. I haven’t been to a bar/lunch yet, were you are going to relax, talk and drink a beer like at home...

Shopping is always a nice when you are supposed to study and you don’t want to. My st achievements from metro: Beer from the oldest brewery of the world (Weihenstephan directly imported from Bavaria, labels only in German), a Mickey Mouse cup and a Beer flavoured Chips (which I havend tasted yet)…


(I know it is a bad picture…)

I forgot to mention before that I have the best two room mates you can think of (Christopher might know what I am talking about *g*)… Today the invited me to drink some special Bulgarian schnaps called Rakia and of course we had to take at least three, just for health reasons the argued.