I acquired again home in Bulgaria for the Christmas holidays. Like all the time I wished to go to the latest golf equipment and to verify the evening lifetime of town. Bearing in mind that I’m dwelling primarily overseas, each time I come again home I can discover all of the modifications within the metropolis.
I met a good friend of mine who additionally lives overseas and we began our evening tour. She hadn’t gone out in Sofia for the final two years and we determined to verify totally different golf equipment with totally different music, so we are able to get an summary of the evening life in Sofia.
Firstly, we went to a well-known membership located within the basement of the nationwide library of town. The music was primarily pop music together with the latest Bulgarian pop songs. The individuals have been blended when it comes to age. There have been 20 one thing years old as additionally 50 years old. Because of the minus temperature outdoors everybody was dressed with heat clothes even inside. Nevertheless, there have been some individuals smoking outdoors. Based on the brand new accepted Bulgarian legislation, there’s a smoking ban and it isn’t allowed to smoke contained in the membership. My good friend is a smoker, so we went outdoors for some time. I listened to the dialog of the individuals round me. There have been some Erasmus college students, individuals who have been complaining about their flight again home, discussing Christmas temper in several European cities and number of related subjects.
After 2 hours we needed to go. It was time for our subsequent membership. We went to a well-known fancy “chalga” membership. “Chalga” as outlined in Wikipedia is a Bulgarian music style with regional attraction within the Balkan nations and a few worldwide following. Chalga is a mix of Turkish, Bulgarian, Arabic, Greek and Balkan influences, in addition to motives from flamenco, filmi and klezmer music. It’s recognized for repeating musical themes and dance rhythms, that are often known as kyuchek in Bulgarian. Again to the flowery membership: we needed to pay a superb amount of cash to enter the membership. All of the furnishings was in white, it was fashionable and costly. We met a number of people who find themselves additionally finding out or dwelling overseas and got here again for Christmas holidays. For lots of them it’s a “should” to go to a membership with chalga music when they’re again home. The reason is that this can be a music you’ll be able to hear solely right here and is sort of typical for the nation for the final 20 years. We additionally met some mates who graduated overseas and got here again in Bulgaria to work. They’re working in multinational corporations and are fairly proud of the usual of dwelling they will have right here. Nevertheless, the music was not solely chalga. This type of music is performed after 2:30 a.m. Even afterwards the DJ often mixes totally different pop music with this fashion. So, there may be every little thing for everybody. The distinction with the primary membership is that right here the individuals have been youthful. Additionally they’re extra formal dressed in keeping with the flowery fashion of the membership.
It was time for our third and final membership. We went to a different membership within the centre which is a real “chalga” membership. There have been no different music, no combination of genres. It’s the classical membership for this type of music, a spot you’ll be able to solely see in Bulgaria. After we arrived in entrance of the membership, there have been already some drunk men preventing in opposition to one another due to unknown motive and a few girls shouting and questioning what to do. Contained in the membership, the ambiance was not so fashionable and fancy. I’d relatively price it like a basic evening membership and not using a particular fashion. There was a gypsy orchestra singing and enjoying chalga music. Some ladies have been dancing on the couch or table (a typical method of dancing on this music). There have been virtually bare dancers in every single place. Younger and exquisite ladies who’re dancing for cash. They have been going from table to table making an attempt to get some cash from the offended wanting men. There have been individuals of all ages. What was typical is the way in which ladies have been dressed: carrying excessive heels is a should, provocative clothes and extremely fastened hair as properly. Regardless of the smoking ban, everybody was smoking contained in the membership. There have been napkins in every single place on the floor which caught to the excessive heels of the provocative ladies (napkins are you was thrown within the air, no particular motive 대구마사지).
Me and my good friend discovered some individuals we all know inside and sat on their table. It turned out that they’re frequent shoppers of the membership and everybody is aware of them. A number of dancers have been coming to the table to speak and dance to one of many guys. Like all the time I used to be extraordinarily concerned with speaking with new individuals and thus, with among the ladies. I had thousand of inquiries to ask. My good friend was laughing at my fixed ardour to speak with all sort of totally different individuals. Nevertheless, I managed to speak with certainly one of them. She was actually excited that there’s somebody who is definitely concerned with her life and threats her with respect. I used to be fascinated by her religion and selections. She is 21 years old, she used to review performing however she stopped. She begins leaving alone and since she actually enjoys dancing, she determined that dancing might be each a passion and a job. I wished to ask concerning the clothes (the dearth of these) when dancing and several other different questions however I made a decision {that a} dialog outdoors the membership can be extra applicable. And in any case she was working and I did not need her to have issues due to speaking with me.
After a number of guys being kicked out due to preventing with one another, me and my good friend determined that’s time to complete with our evening tour and we left the small patriarchic Bulgaria.
On my method home I used to be pondering: how so totally different locations exist and the way so totally different individuals go there. It is sort of a tradition within the tradition. The European fashion, the flowery membership, the patriarchic fashion – all these is in Bulgaria. Some individuals deny, for instance, the existence of locations just like the third membership, they decide everybody who’s going to locations like this. They only don’t wish to settle for that there’s such sort of neighborhood with these sort of values in Bulgaria these days. Nevertheless, no matter we’re doing, it’s a truth. It exists.
The great factor is that there a variety of totally different golf equipment and bars with totally different sort of types. That is positively the largest appeal of Sofia – you’ll be able to select totally different locations to go, enter totally different sub societies and communities, discuss with totally different sort of individuals.