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Posted by Yanko on 2008-04-01
By www.mybulgaria.info on 2008-03-10.
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As to what informs my opinion, here goes:
* the distance between Sofia and Bansko is 170 km (100 miles or thereabouts) - it currently takes 3.30 hrs to cover, being driven by a driver who isn't shy when it comes to using the most brazen driving techniques imaginable and willing to all too easily turn a blind eye to any speed limit designed to ensure the safety of the passenger. The road is a mess, and this is actually putting it mildly.
* the town itself is the most unsightly mixture of unadulterated squalor (as in knee-high mud, puddles, iron fixtures protruding from literally everywhere, deafening noise (well withing earshot in the special sound-proof interperter's booth installed on the top floor of the Glazne Hotel) produced by cement mixing trucks, excavation works, drilling, etc. The arrant building work going on is truly without qualitfication and so is the discomfort it brings to the poor unsuspecting victim trapped in the middle of it. I can't think of what amount of indignation would have descended on me had I been asked to pay to go and spend any amount of time there;
* the scale of construction is not at all matched by the slightest attempt to cover the construction waste generated as a result - one's way is literally obstructed at every step by heaps of things no one in their right mind would want to be anywhere near to, let alone walk in trying to get from point A to point B, only that one has to as there is nowhere else to walk.
* streets being dark - don't get me started;
* stray dogs - I happen to like these (but can imagine the shock one who doesn't would be in if and when they were encountered by a pack);
* the bus station - Gee, what a joke;
* the absolute absence of any amount of thought being put into this huge, sprawling development and the fact that I am really unable to see how at this very advanced state of 'development' the irredeemable damage done to Bansko can be put right;
I personally would not want to live in a development, however 'luxurious' (as per the hype), only to sink into swamps of mud and construction debris, once I've made up my mind to cross to threshold and brave what lies beyond it.
Again, this is a personal opinion but it is a very genuine one. I have needed a full weekend to recover from the experience so apologies for the delay in posting this.
PS: It is not just that I have actually being to ASPEN and the fact that the numerous posters advertising a new development called Aspen Heights made me laugh until I cried but, seriously, I would like to meet the developer, buy him a drink and tell him that the mere controversy between the advertisement and what's behind it, made my day big time!
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