So, the second photo from the top is of Okinawa (Tsuboya pottery street in Naha).
What a resemblance… Although I couldn’t even pronounce this town’s name, Koprivshtitsa, a picturesque town 110 km from Sofia.
In short, Sofia is a very affordable Berlin (The price there is nearly half of that in Berlin). A city to live in, rather than to make a short visit: safe, “procrastinations”, full of graffiti, remaining tastes of communism, trams, vegan cafes, amazingly kind people despite low rate of English speakers.
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They Bulgarians describe themselves as always being late and always procrastinating, from which I got a bit extreme idea: The nature of procrastination might be linked to the nature of tolerance? Procrastinators are those who are tolerant of both themselves and others, and those who are able to accept the current situation?? They have procrastinated to make a brutal decision and saved lots of lives in their long history. And now, there is an unique square in central Sofia, with four close neighbors of different religion. An Islamic mosque is just one block away from a Jewish synagogue. Then a catholic church and an orthodox church. You’re hearing Azaan from every other church. Well then, procrastination is not so much a bad thing…?
We took a night stroll somewhere around Anafiotika, on the small, winding path between the houses. The path was so narrow that we could no longer walk next to each other and I could hear somebody in a house talking like right next to me.
And we saw more cats than people.
When I was taking this photo, a passerby picked up the NAMON plate and took it away, saying he thought it’s Frisbee or something. Lovely. I wish it were so!
