Sofia Bulgaria: WELCOME TO THE BALKANS – The DARKEST City in Europe

Sofia Bulgaria: WELCOME TO THE BALKANS – The DARKEST City in Europe

Over here is the Customs checking and because Britain is no longer part of the European Union I’m going to have to show my passport until I can cross the border from Greece into Bulgaria I have just gone through customs now I have arrived from Greece into Bulgaria

I see lots of Greek Flags there in the Bulgarian side for some reason I don’t see much Bulgarian Flags though I would have thought the Balkan borders would have been a bit more heated contested tense I guess I was wrong there’s a bunch of Greek flags up

There what are the bulgar Flags I saw some bulg Ian flags and symbols back in the custom border but I don’t see him now why am I bringing up flags and Balan borders the Balkans is the southeast peninsula of Europe historically it’s the crossroads of culture of religious faith and

Gateways of global trade from the Silk Road to the Black Sea to the PowerHouse of the danub river the Balkans is the powder keg of Europe given its turbulent history of invading and genociding each other B ban countries hate their immediate neighbors whom they share a

Border with if they don’t share a border then there is only a 90% chance they hate each other you get what I mean it’s a really dysfunctional family of countries and a massive cluster [ __ ] to even try to fix Greece and Bulgaria are no strangers to this Dynamic after the

Balan Avengers assembled to remove Kebab cheeky Bulgaria wants a bigger and fairer slice of the Balkan pie especially over Macedonia so they attack their former allies Greece and Serbia kicking off the second Balan War war and seemingly starting a trend since then Bulgaria and Greece have gone at each

Other in the first world war in the second world war and even over a stray dog seriously some Greek Soldier chased after his dog across the border so Bulgarian soldiers opened fire at least according to popular consensus but today both countries are in the European Union

And NATO so I can only assume they’re currently on their best behavior at least for now just passed through customs we are now in Bulgaria still have yet to see any of the bulgar Flags you can see Mel coffee with a British telephone box this is the last and only muel coffee in

Bulgaria welcome to Bulgaria I wonder what Border Town this is once I have internet I can probably consolidate the map and tell you guys from then Bulgaria land of the bulgar bulgar people here are southern slaves bulgarians are a Southern Slavic people where am I you don’t know where

You are no you’re in Bulgaria no no no Bulgaria a discovery to share greetings from sofhia Bulgaria and here I am made it in one piece at the dead of nights over there is the actual central train station with no Wi-Fi and over here is a nice Monument I found a good

Spot to start the video I believe right over here is what it looks like an abandoned part of the station you can see all the unkempt tiles right around the area here wow exciting authentic Sophia now one thing I do notice that in Bulgaria are the abundance of casinos I see so many

Casinos around and they’re all bright lit I’ve seen so many along the way I’m pretty sure you’re going to see loads too the time is now about 9: pm. here in sofhia Bulgaria and I have a long walk ahead of me I did promise you guys

Casinos that’s a close one that is an open one Casino Pino you don’t think you can see it but the old there is not lit up all right Lads it’s volor flip time wow look at the old tram so we have the old tram system here I wonder if it’s communist an old

Communist tram system that would be exciting to take admittedly I know very little about this place sofhia I know very little about Bulgaria other than of course the Communist parts of it I think I know a fair few about the role of Bulgaria in the world wars and in the

Cold War most of the places you see lit up I bet you would imagine are open shops not quite they are most likely casinos some elements of gambling involve skin skill okay something like poker involves skill and to me that’s a way more acceptable form of gambling

Whereas something like I don’t know the slot machine doesn’t the slot machine to me strikes me as something that’s just pure R you have to rely on the RNG Gods it’s all luck based this is the sound of the Bulgarian Crossing what am I going to do you might

Ask I’m probably going to go to the hostal check in put away my bags find a bar some place to drink and then tomorrow I’ll probably go find some communist stuff damn the lights take years to change maybe we can find some communist ghosts that’ll be fun communist ghosts

They can tell us all about times there many communist Klein states of the Soviet Union would go through their own system of purges maybe many of these ghosts were victims of the reign of Terror and the purges of course we are now approaching the Lion’s

Gate you want to see why they call it the Lion’s gate I wonder what this used to be though this Old Stone structure right in the center of the park whatever it was this information is faded I’m now climbing top the very structure in the middle of the Lion’s

Gate and those are the Lions over there uhoh the popo I think that’s a cat over there I can see in the distance I don’t know if the camera can catch that in the dark this is the NTI in Sophia Bulgaria it doesn’t get any better than this it

Really doesn’t take much to guard this bridge huh we’ve now passed it through the Lion’s gate we’ve entered deep into sofhia City Center OH only old four channers will get that mean Pace bugaria does have Stray Cats check it out hello am M Sophia or M Vegas cuz

There’s a bloody Casino around every corner of the street and in the center of every street casinos are everywhere here in Sophia they’re very mesmerizing it makes me want to go in there and gamble all my money away another thing I noticed here in Sophia there’s so many dark and sketchy corners

Like if you look past all of the casino lights all the side streets are barely illuminated I wonder what authentic Bulgarian food we can find along the way too I think I should settle for some authentic Bulgarian grub hold on a second this place is called Ki it sells sweets and chocolates it’s

Essentially a corner shop oh of course you can buy all your VOD and alcohol here too and you buy it on the counter though kinky I’ll have to come back to kinky and purchase me some exotic see I want to say toys but they’re not toys they’re very much

Consumables so you notice the change from the Greek alphabet to the cilic alphabet things are written backwards here no more Greek no more Latin it’s all Bulgarian to me now here’s the old communist tram coming in the old communist tram in all its Glory oh my gosh right around the corner of this

Building here we have I believe this is a mosque I think it’s MOS I could be wrong it could also be an Orthodox Church oh it’s a synagogue I’m so sorry I find it really strange it’s very eerie in fact creepy it’s fitting for my video purposes see because it is

Halloween is the season right but no one’s about it is Central Downtown sofhia not a soul in sight I don’t see anyone places aren’t really open save for some casinos down the main road no one’s walking around there isn’t really much activity in the very City Center of sofhia how

Bizarre I believe my hostel is this way and unlike Athens or thessalonica the side streets aren’t really lit up see my camera goes very dark now oh motion light down there all right we’re on Michael my name is Michael I’ve been trouble with B 10 months and this is a [ __ ] hostile room

I’ll tell you why it’s [ __ ] the beds are really close together I’ve just met this guy there’s also no Locker is there’s a distinct lack of lockers here and I am worried for my property although I trust these gentlemen to not steal anything there was a German and Austrian guy here

Earlier too not sure about that one I don’t know where is good for Bulgarian food it’s mainly Arabic people I’m assuming there is Arabic Turkish Bulgarian that’s true yeah I’ve seen many Turkish places and on this one was Arabic very it’s more Turkish found one on YouTube with uh 3.8 star

This hostel name keeps changing this hostel has many names but which one is the real name yeah you’re right the Infinity Room is pretty creepy check it out see I thought it was like a play in the infinity gaet we had no idea what Skinwalker business model this hostel

Was playing at but we weren’t sticking around to find out we ventured onward through the dim streets of Sophia for a taste of Bulgarian Cuisine okay so I’m off on a Grand Adventure with Michael and Christian here we’re going to go find some true Bulgarian authentic food however the

Thing we notice is the distinct lack of livelihood here in the city center of Sophia notice you got no people there’s no hustle and bustle around it’s um really poorly lit oh yeah it is there’s barely any lights I don’t know if it’s like this street or what well you get

The casino lights right that’s the only light I really noticed I think this is the synagogue here wait is that the cross no then it’s not the synagogue never mind and what’s your first impression like of Sophia I’d say yeah dark and empty yeah I think we gather that I mean it’s our

First night it’s all of our first nights here right it’s also a Saturday evening it is a Saturday evening too and that makes it more eerie yeah that does not Sesame me anymore cuz a lot of these places aren’t even but it look it look what maybe

We’re not as C this is the first place I’ve seen open and it’s a record shop random he’s going to look for a record at this time there is how we see wow how we like a sort of night life on the city center and around there is no finger there’s a monument

Here boys going out on the town boys out in town oh man it definitely looks like Bulgarian boys out in town he that so much yeah this guy’s head is completely falling off this one’s holding like a Glock or a pistol of some sort there like fathers of

Bulgaria over here okay now we’re talking wow the Bulgarian sh py birth yeah all right cheers Lads cheers Bulgarian beer want know it’s refreshing it’s really refreshing and he’s like him from Albania oh wow I do not know that his last hand Al that’s kind of interesting so

When I went to Albania everyone was like from inoc one of us it’s albanesi the Australian prime minister albanesi cheers albanesi this one’s for you here’s the authentic Bulgarian field we have now honey pork garlic potatoes potatoes what do you get it’s a pork chop cheese on the top what did you get

Christian a typical grandmother rece from bulgar I don’t know Bulgarian wish hey that was magnificent traditional Bulgarian dancing wow Bulgarian woman are gorgeous exactly yeah man look at that Bulgarian General over there swag okay guys I think we’ve actually found the real old Sophia please oh no camera yeah that’s

Fine is he trying to draw you into the fattish club yeah yeah yeah I almost just wanted to know what it was like it’s pretty I think the name is on the 10 there but yeah then there 84 so is this old Sophia I don’t know that’s a communist building that’s pretty

Cool um not maybe it was once a communist building at a time it looks too modern though the the left looks more way more communist that looks like a true KVA what I was in Budapest so much in the neon Museum and I was talking about um all the Communist sort of neon

Science and the history behind it which is basically like you know they’d have a sign that said butcher when you went into the butcher there wouldn’t be any meat but the sign looked cool and that gave people hope I was just I was just into that as as a concept cuz they

Wanted to like keep up with what western you know democracies are doing so that’s like in uh in North Korea in Pyongyang uh when you’re given the guided tour you can see like fresh fruit out on the stools but only the guy talking go up to

Them and he picks out the actual one that’s real right and yeah the rest are all fake wow they don’t exist so I suppose it’s the mall more in the old town it’s still pretty much not a bad War I like it we get another beer somewhere yes I think we ought

To yeah you’re right for Saturday night it feels in probably quiet feels more like a Tuesday Ain it somewhere J Sil disorder disorder disorder that was really good thank you toxicity at I had some American colleag and all of them they have guns at home and they have me you

You don’t you don’t have gun at no you don’t have gun yeah they’re like shocked that you don’t have a gun you made a real like sort of you know left wing like a Democrat American I’d do like to ask them just with a straight face oh so do you have a

Gun and they sort of squirm and they start explaining like why they don’t and mate I think I would be a leftwing guy in America with a gun obiously not to like [ __ ] sheep people yeah I mean for a coming form of class conflict in

The future yeah if that was to ever come I would sooner be in a position where I would have a gun conservative and a liberal can go at each other and may the the fight be blood on both sides but should they come for me at least I’ll

Have a gun I have my fundamental rights but honestly I think in America it’s kind of necessary for society now where it’s so [ __ ] that you sort of got to have a gunet I don’t really agree but no I know I I agree with that sentiment I wish it

Didn’t have to be the case in Europe it’s you know we don’t have that philosophy though or we got rid of our guns like pretty okay like we would I mean a lot of people do need guns for Pest Control no one has them for fun

Like right I mean sometimes guns are fun like recreational are like the fr the French system of like you you rent the gun at the gun range right and then you give the gun back when you’re done with it John Howard the Prime Minister we had

For a long time in Australia we had one mass shooting in 1995 we’ve never had another one cuz he just literally this thing the gun buyback scam yeah they literally just put like thousands and thousands of guns into shipping containers and just crush them like you cannot buy a semi-automatic

Weapon in AER anymore that’s good though why why sell automatic weapons why do you need automatic weapons like that now I don’t think you can really get rid of gun control just like that in America but you could probably make a good start well we can still keep your guns right

But do you really need assault rifles you know gun laws at the time were written you know they’ve never been updated since the time where you can only fire one round it take you like a minute to reload your gun I love it we are now entering a Bulgarian Dive

Bar nice just up the stairs mate just up the stairs yeah cheers so friendly blocks this looks like an apartment oh it’s like Japan in a Aussie a froggy and a limey walk into a bar be here yeah I like it what are you grabbing Michael I’m not going to pronounce that

But yeah it looks cool a Bulgarian yeah that cheapest local that’s what I’m going for I can get you one I spend a bit of time in Russia but I can’t read c yeah I can’t either also fun fact Cil is named after a bloke who invented the

Language his name was s s good to know it’s also Rel to me so the lads found a night life after all proving there are flickers of light even in the dark streets of Sophia if you ever find yourself lost in the void of Sophia look

Up Barfly trust me it’s a good start for your source of light and zinis Michael you’re a sick [ __ ] mate I enjoyed our discussions on humanities and your traveling trivia Christian you had the coolest backstory working an oil rig in the Black Sea just been arrested by the Bulgaria police I’m done for

Guys watch the shake down NOA may look man so many there’s so many police vehicles yeah I wonder if it’s like a drug boss or something it seems like a Romney a Roma family oh yeah I guess not being racist but making an observation it was a um dark skinned vog

Right yeah yeah tends to be Romani have you ever noticed there’s always overseas people who calls crime I was like he’s like seriously every time you watch the news it’s like this person from another country no it’s never Australians is it call CW

A Limey, a Froggy and an Aussie walk into a poorly lit bar in the darkest capital city in Europe before the Bulgarian police prepare a massive raid. I’ve arrived in the enigmatic yet charming city of Sofia – a city cloaked in darkness yet illuminated by the glittering lights numerous casinos.

Seriously it’s like Wizards have all cast the Darkness spell simultaneously on every street.

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00:00 Greece-Bulgaria Border
03:52 Arrival in Sofia, Bulgaria
07:15 Lions’ Gate Bridge and Sofia
11:15 Sketchy Hostel
15:10 Bulgarian Party & Food
18:03 Vitosha Boulevard
22:35 Bulgarian Bar
25:59 Sofia Police Raid
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