A train trip to Sofia, My stay there and Down and
Metallica's concert
My trip to Sofia started at 10:05 at Thursday with a train. It took
me around 8 hours 30 minutes to arrive there. The reason I traveled
to Sofia was the Metallica concert which was going to happen at
Friday night. It seemed that few other old friends were traveling
to Sofia so we traveled in one compartment. I wasn't able to sleep
much only 2 or maximum 3 hours. The last time I traveled to sofia
was 6 years ago so this long journey was something I haven't done
from a long time. Thanks to God the journey was "flawless", we
arrived whole. It seemed that two of the guys traveling with me
(Toto and Neicho) had some engagements so I had to stay with the
other two guys (The so called "Lurch" and Miro - who is a reporter
in a radio here in Dobrich ). Miro had to meet an old school friend
from his military service. It happened that this guy was pretty
cool. When we met them after we spend some time wondering what are
the plans for the day I proposed to go to the Sofia city Zoo after
a bit of arguing against all of the guys accepted the idea so we
asked few people which tram we had to take in order to go to the
Zoo. After finding out we needed number 9 we took that tram and
traveled across the "Borisov's garden" which is a sort of Sofia's
central park. We had to get down at one of the bus stations because
Vladimir (The Miro's friend) had to use bathroom in urgency cause
he had upset digestion. After he drop the shit :). We took another
tram and went to the station we had to get out and walk to the Zoo.
First we went with Vladimir to take him some medicine against his
upset digest, after which we walked around two bus stations before
we arrived to the Zoo. The Zoo's animals were awesome although the
animals are a prisoners .. The animals we observed were Jaguars,
Owls, hippopotamus, tigers, parrots, bears, rhinos, monkeys,
turtles, ostrichs and many many more. After that we were hungry so
we went to the Sofia Student City. And we sat on a place called
"Krivoto", after seeing the high prices there we decided we won't
eat there and stayed only for a drink there. After which we went to
a place called "Dzhumajata" where we ate cheap pastrys and snacks.
Speaking about cheap stuff I should say I noticed that the prices
in Sofia are a way more expensive comparing to the prices in most
of the towns and citys. After we had our lunch we took a bus and
traveled to the Boris's Garden to a place pretty near to the
stadium where the Metallica concert was going to happen. The
weather was terrible at the beginning it was raining then it was
shiny afterwards it was rainy, sunshine and rain changed for a few
times during the day and as a whole the time was pretty unsteady.
We were there near the stadium at 1 o'clock in the afternoon so we
had a lot of time to loose, most of the people who were already
there were young uncivilized metalheads who were a pretty
disgusting picture. Until maybe 3 o'clock most of the guys I've saw
was in the age interval 14-16 years old which make me feel like
like I'm in the kinder garden. This guys were drinking screaming
unhumanly. Yes 9 years ago when I was on the Metallica's concert in
Plovdiv I know I was looking probably pretty similar to that guys
but still I hated that. At a point I was so disgusted from the
metal culture and the young metalheads that I wanted no more to
attend the concert I was thinking of selling my ticket and going
for a walk with Nomen. In the end I decided I won't sell my ticket
and will enter the concert. It seemed I entered late and the
concert has already started because I wasn't able to listen to the
warm up band called "The Sword", when I entered I came just on time
for "Down" band performance. I have to say I wasn't impressed I
never listened this band seriously but as far as I am an ex-Pantera
fan I expected more from (Pantera's frontman) Phil Anselmo. From
I've heard I personally think he can't sing at all. Most of the
public around me seemed like they aren't enjoying Down too. Next an
50 minutes or so after Down Metallica went on stage heating the
audience to red with Creeping Death and a bunch of other from their
all well known songs from Kill'em All, Ride the Ligthning, Master
of Puppets, And Justice for All and The Black Album. The only song
thay played from an album after year '91 was Fuel which is one of
the best songs from their carreer after '91. The sound quality was
pretty good and as a whole Metallica performance was so good that
it seemed they're performing on a playback. This is the good things
I may say, the bad things are I realized a lot of their things are
devilish and inspired by the devil himself. Also I examined in
their attitude and their stage behaviour this guys have completely
gone insane. They acted like Metallica is some kind of God who they
feed. From a believers perspective I can say Metallica as a band
became an idol to the band members. An idol which is their God. I
really hate that and at a point I wanted that the concert be done
as soon as possible. After the concert I went out from one of the
stadium exits, and tried to find the place where we were with the
guys before the concert but I got lost, and decided to call to
Nomen and tell him I'm going to his place because i didn't have
much of a thing to do, I had to call Vlado (Hellpain) afther the
concert but there were some problems with the GSM networks exactly
then so I wasn't able to find him right then. I was walking in a
streets at Sofia having no idea where I am going. I was searching
for a cheaper I can take to Nomen's quarter (Dyrvenica). Luckily I
met a friends from Dobrich who were in Sofia for many years and
asked them which taxi to take in order to save some money. The
suggested I should take a taxi called from the taxis "1 euro" and
told me in which street it's more probable to find such a taxi. One
of this taxis i've saw was taken right before me, so I was walking
and searching for another taxi at this point I was very tired. I
prayed Jesus to help me earlier because I felt a kind of totally
lost in Sofia and I really wanted not to spend much money for a
taxi. And the prayer was answered like always Hellpain called to me
and asked where I'm, I told him I have absolutely no idea where I
am and asked him if it's a problem for him to drive me to
Dyrvenica, he said: "it's not a problem because they're pass by
this quarter anyways. I had to call him 4 or 5 times before I was
able to find the stadium where he was waiting for me. They took me
and bring me to dyrvenica, then Nomen took me from the bus station
and after we went to the shop to take something for eating, we ate
spaghetti talked a bit and went to bed. At the next day after I
woke up I have awaken him too and we went to Djumayata to have a
breakfast. After that we went to the center and "by chance"
although no chances at this life, Nasko (with which we were a
colleagues at "design.bg", called to hear me how I am and I told
him I'm in Sofia. He suggested that we may see each other and we
did 2 hours later or so. Before that we had a coffee to a
coffeterea very close to the Sofia's university. Right before that
we walked around the National Assembly, and we went to the Largest
Church in Sofia, "St. Alexander Nevski". The church is beatiful and
big and has much less orthodox icons than the one hear in Dobrich.
Later when we met Nasko infront of Sofia's University we went to a
place called "Krivoto" which is right next to the Sofia's
university. The prices there again were pretty high. After that we
went to the Sofia's mall where we went to IMAX (3d cinema). We
watched a film Nascar their which is a sort of documentary film for
the nascar racings which happen in america. Watching cinema in 3d
is pretty awesome althought it tires your brain a lot. In order to
see in 3d, when you enter the cinema a personal provides you with
special glasses which make the films projected in 3d. After that we
went to Student City again where we met vlado we ate a burgers with
Nomen, after which we went to the Djumaya again. There are 2
Djumaya's one is for fast food the other one is like a restaurant
and a sort of pub in one. This time we went to the restaurant/pub.
We drinked beer with fried potates and went to Mitko's place again
where we watched an English comedy called "The Black Adder". At the
next day after we woke up we went to a monestery pretty close to
the Dyrvenica's quarter "Dyrvenishki Monestery". There I asked the
priest to bless two crosses I bought the day before from Alexander
Nevski and he blessed them with a holy water in the name of "The
Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit). After that we went back to
the center in Sofia and called to see Nasko. Together we went to a
place where we ate pretty cheap pizzas this was located very near
to a park. The interesting thing about the park was that it was a
free wifi zone. Too bad nobody was with his laptop :). We had to
meet toto their and we sat to a coffeeteria. After the coffe we
tried to kill some time at the park watching the fountains and
talking about stuff. At 5 o'clock we went around the Sofia's
Theather which I think is a sort of national theater. After that we
had another cheap pizza to a place near the NDK building. I and
nasko walked around NDK. Something really good that I remember I
saw the day before was a Russian Orthodox Church we went in it only
for few minutes and there was some sort of liturgy or so happening,
so we went out. I also saw quiet a lot of other interesting
buildings and places which right now I cannot say by name cause I
don't remember the name. At 8 o'clock we took a bus to the train
station. We bought tickets and we catched the train back to
Dobrich. At the train a guy I didn't know started talking with me,
I introduced myself to him and he to me. And very fast we became a
friends. He is called "Bagryian" and is a machine engineer on a
ship, he is right now graduating at the Naval school in Varna. It
seemed he also was from Tyrgovishte and he knew Nasko the guy with
whom we spend our day and the day before
Accidence
Huh? The guy told me he is coming back from a sailing course to
Malta. It seemed he is a interested into wireless cracking and
security as a whole at the same time he is a "stopper" geek (not
sure about the term but basicly he enjoys to stop random cars to
bring him from a destination to another destination. He was also
interested into security in general although he is not so deeply
into computing, he explained me some interesting stuff about
wireless technology. He made and embeded an external antena to his
laptop wireless in order to make it catch more wifi-networks. Also
He showed me his gps and gsm with the "tomtom" software which
indicated our location when we were moving with the train and also
our speed we travel with. He was a pretty interesting buddy.
Luckily my travel to Dobrich was incident free and now I'm home
blogging
Bagryan mentioned he owns a website about tech stuff called
http://spoika.info . Also he told
me that the stop guys have gatherings just like the rockers
gatherings and he mentioned the official site for the stopper guys
in Bulgaria. Check it out
http://stopbg.com .