Germany/Bulgaria Trip Diary
"Singing in the Rain..."
Day 6
The owner of
this hotel (and we did meet him
. John even rode in his Maserati) needs to send
his female staff to charm school. I managed to make one or two of the
girls behind reception smile and the difference was amazing. Someone said
it takes more effort to frown than it does to smile but a smile goes a long way
in the hospitality business and they need to figure that out! Someone told
me that the younger generation in Bulgaria donīt want to smile or donīt feel
they have any reason to but thatīs just more of the same "teenage angst" stuff I
have been hearing about for so long. Life is tough and itīs tough for all
of us but I just donīt see the point in being miserable (or at least looking
that way). Come to think of it I still donīt understand why people walk
about in groups of three or four with earbuds in
. Must be a riveting
conversation!
We got our
scrambled eggs
thanks Nikolai
and we set course for the airport so John could
catch his flight to the UK. Then we found the hotel (and a really great
one it was!) and I got ready to go to the TV station to record the "Slavi" show
which is watched every night by half the population of Bulgaria. I was a
bit tired and (strangely) a bit nervous but I only had to answer some silly
questions, act up a bit and sing "Lady In Black" with the house band so it went
well enough.
There are some
really incredible musicians and singers in this country and I really like their
home-grown music so Iīve collected quite a few CDs along the way! They go
into my iPod alongside Joan Baez (Baptism) and Leonard Cohen!!
So
the show
is over and itīs time for dinner and we had a nice little group of people but I
still failed to find a decent steak. I was thankful for the food I did
have but it seems that beef is not the strong suit in this country so I am going
to have to practise a bit more.
I have to get
up at 4am tomorrow so I had to bail out early, paid my respects and walked the
short distance to the Central Park Hotel. If you ever get a chance to
visit Sofia, please do try this hotel. Itīs really cool and the girls at
the front desk actually smile! Must be a "big city" thing!
