Bulgaria is THE most corrupt of the Eastern European Nations. Run almost entirely by the mafia, this place is very hard to run a hostel. “When we first came in here, the mafia didn’t know what to make of us. They asked us what we were doing having all these people coming in and out all the time. We just told them that we were bringing in kids to go you your clubs and spend money. The mob bosses said great! And demanded that we start 10 hostels. The towns people kicked us out of our original space because we were making too much noise so the mafia put us in their block of town and told their tenants to let us do what ever. Thats when we started doing free beer and we used to have free shots of Vodka until a few months ago when someone went to the hospital. Before we could start 10 hostels, the mob bosses realized how much money we were making and then doubled our rent, thus making it impossible to be profitable.”
Dave is a character to say the least, but I would sat the bigger character is Bulgaria. The town of Varna could easily pass as downtown Ocean Side which might leave a sick feeling in some people’s stomach. Tomorrow I am heading to a town that is Bulgaria’s medieval capitol. It’s supposed to be beautiful. While I have been here, there have been a bunch of flash rain storms. We have been eating at the same restaurant for quite some time now and I can say that the salad dressing here is just a scoop of water out of the black sea. It’s surprisingly amazing!