I bought again dwelling in Bulgaria for the Christmas holidays. Like at all times I needed to go to the latest golf equipment and to test the evening lifetime of the town. Taking into consideration that I’m residing primarily overseas, each time I come again dwelling I can discover all of the modifications within the metropolis.
I met a pal 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 test completely different golf equipment with completely different music, so we will 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 the town. The music was primarily pop music together with the latest Bulgarian pop songs. The folks had been combined when it comes to age. There have been 20 one thing years previous as additionally 50 years previous. Because of the minus temperature exterior everybody was dressed with heat garments even inside. Nonetheless, there have been some folks smoking exterior. In response to the brand new accepted Bulgarian legislation, there’s a smoking ban and it isn’t allowed to smoke contained in the membership. My pal is a smoker, so we went exterior for some time. I listened to the dialog of the folks round me. There have been some Erasmus college students, individuals who had been complaining about their flight again dwelling, discussing Christmas temper in numerous 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 called kyuchek in Bulgarian. Again to the flamboyant membership: we needed to pay an excellent amount of cash to enter the membership. All of the furnishings was in white, it was trendy and costly. We met a number of people who find themselves additionally finding out or residing 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 dwelling. The reason is that this can be a music you may hear solely right here and is sort of typical for the nation for the final 20 years. We additionally met some pals who graduated overseas and got here again in Bulgaria to work. They’re working in multinational firms and are fairly proud of the usual of residing they’ll have right here. Nonetheless, the music was not solely chalga. This sort of music is performed after 2:30 a.m. Even afterwards the DJ often mixes completely different pop music with this model. So, there may be every part for everybody. The distinction with the primary membership is that right here the folks had been youthful. Additionally they’re extra formal dressed based on the flamboyant model of the membership.
It was time for our third and final membership. We went to a different membership within the centre which is an actual “chalga” membership. There have been no different music, no combination of genres. It’s the classical membership for this sort of music, a spot you may solely see in Bulgaria. After we arrived in entrance of the membership, there have been already some drunk men combating in opposition to one another due to unknown purpose and a few girls shouting and questioning what to do. Contained in the membership, the environment was not so trendy and fancy. I’d somewhat price it like a traditional evening membership with out a particular model. There was a gypsy orchestra singing and enjoying chalga music. Some women had been dancing on the sofa or table (a typical approach of dancing on this music). There have been virtually bare dancers in all places. Younger and exquisite women who’re dancing for cash. They had been going from table to table making an attempt to get some cash from the offended trying men. There have been folks of all ages. What was typical is the best way women had been dressed: carrying excessive heels is a should, provocative garments and extremely mounted hair as effectively. Regardless of the smoking ban, everybody was smoking contained in the membership. There have been napkins in all places on the ground which caught to the excessive heels of the provocative women (napkins are you was once thrown within the air, no particular purpose 대구유흥).
Me and my pal discovered some folks 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 had been coming to the table to speak and dance to one of many guys. Like at all times I used to be extraordinarily eager about speaking with new folks and thus, with a number of the women. I had thousand of inquiries to ask. My pal was laughing at my fixed ardour to speak with all sort of completely different folks. Nonetheless, I managed to speak with considered one of them. She was actually excited that there’s somebody who is definitely eager about her life and threats her with respect. I used to be fascinated by her religion and choices. She is 21 years previous, she used to check performing however she stopped. She begins leaving alone and since she actually enjoys dancing, she determined that dancing could possibly be each a interest and a job. I needed to ask concerning the garments (the dearth of these) when dancing and a number of other different questions however I made a decision {that a} dialog exterior the membership can be extra applicable. And in spite of everything 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 combating with one another, me and my pal determined that’s time to complete with our evening tour and we left the small patriarchic Bulgaria.
On my approach dwelling I used to be pondering: how so completely different locations exist and the way so completely different folks go there. It is sort of a tradition within the tradition. The European model, the flamboyant membership, the patriarchic model – all these is in Bulgaria. Some folks deny, for instance, the existence of locations just like the third membership, they choose everybody who’s going to locations like this. They simply don’t need to settle for that there’s such sort of neighborhood with these sort of values in Bulgaria these days. Nonetheless, no matter we’re doing, it’s a reality. It exists.
The nice factor is that there numerous completely different golf equipment and bars with completely different sort of kinds. That is positively the most important appeal of Sofia – you may select completely different locations to go, enter completely different sub societies and communities, speak with completely different kind of individuals.