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I think I managed to get sick of Music in Velıka Tarnovo. Don't worry, it's not a permanent illness, But a few days I just wanted silence. The problem was that the hikers hostel where I was staying, although lovely, deemed ıt reasonable to play mind numbıng trance music from early morning to early evening. From then it got even worse, as a couple of obnoxious australians (whose major conversation topic was how much illegal substances they took) would hog the stereo and insist on playing 'a perfect circle' and every other experiemental metal band that I dont know the name of.

Canines and Castles

James Taylor
2006-08-23 11:14:38

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I think I managed to get sick of Music in Velıka Tarnovo. Don't worry, it's not a permanent illness, But a few days I just wanted silence. The problem was that the hikers hostel where I was staying, although lovely, deemed ıt reasonable to play mind numbıng trance music from early morning to early evening. From then it got even worse, as a couple of obnoxious australians (whose major conversation topic was how much illegal substances they took) would hog the stereo and insist on playing 'a perfect circle' and every other experiemental metal band that I dont know the name of.

Apart from this testing ordeal, which forced me to stay away most of the time, Velika was a charming rustic town with a spectacular setting on a ridge overlooking a river.

I had travelled to Velıka wıth Adam, the guy who I had met in Plovdıv. When we arrived, the guidebook seemed to suggest that in order to find our hostel, we needed to look for the mystical sounding 'house of the little monkey'. Hoever, either this house, or the little monkey didn't exist. For an hour or so we became embroiled in the treacherously steep and cobbled backstreets of Velika. I had to fend off one particuarly yappy dog who insisted on following me half way acoss town. It was about the a rat though, so I would have been able to take it if it came to blows

At this time of year, possıbly due to the unique mountan geography, the weather in Velıika seemed to follow a predictable pattern.

Morning: Blue Skys blazing dry heat
Midday: Clouds begin to appear in the sky, the ait becomes humid.
Afternoon: Sky's are grey, its hot and intolerably humid.
Early evenıng: Enourmous thunder and lightning storm, waterfalls flow down steps and slopes, cars drench passers by etc.
Late evening nightime: temperature drops, clouds dissapear.

Such consistent weather was actually very useful, as it became easy to plan around ...