I'm getting settled in here in Sofia Bulgaria. My apartment is in the central part of the city. Yesterday I joined the gym near my place - it is small but the staff is nice and the equipment is pretty good.

Sunday night I had a couple of beers with Veso and Irene, my next-door neighbors. I rent my apartment from Veso’s parents. We met at the Rafelsson Bank, and then we walked to the Bar Ecstasy, which is their favorite watering hole. It has been around for about 2 years; before that, it was owned by an Afgani and was a seedy drug haven. I met the guy who runs the Internet Café (or Game Room, as Veso calls it) and discussed setting up a point-to-point network between our apartment building and his café. He will charge us only for the bandwidth – 7 cents/megabyte.