radoslav and nikolai

I met Radoslav and Nikolai yesterday night (during the rakia sessions) at the "Art-Hostel-we-spend-most-of-our-time-in-the garden" (this is the hostel's complete name, slight inappropriate for winter). So the name is crap, but the downstairs underground bar, accessible through what looks more like a trap door in the kitchen, is absolutely tremendous! Arty,funky (glass tables hanging from pulleys), and very laid back..

Radoslav and Nikola it turns out are musicians. And by what it sounnds like, excellent ones too. They had just come back from giving a concert in Holland, and Radoslav will be playing in Barcelona in a couple of weeks - we've arranged to meet. Or I should say him, and the Bulgaria Symphony Orchestra (all 50 of them). Should be at least entertaining, anyone up for it?

Aside their non questionable impressive music skills, they are very talented when it comes to drinking beers, I was doing 1 beer for every 3 of theirs...we must have knocked our bottles together (can't think of the right verb here), about 120 times, once every 2 sips..and in between Radoslav would go off and hunt down some girls to bring over to our corner of the bar...we spoke to Portuguese from Porto, then we spoke to Hungarians from Budapest, then we spoke to Romanians...then the locals..in my long-gone days of being single, this would have been tremendous 5 star service...

The night ended with big bear hugs & a promise to show Rasdoslav the best bars in Barcelona....