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Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia


I visited Rome on a work trip last week. Couldn’t experience too much of it because the trip was brief and the schedule – tight.
I liked their inner gardens and pretty, well dressed people. The food outside of the tourist centre was superb.



I hated the car culture, the swarms of tourists. Almost got run by a motorcycle on the sidewalk. Didn’t see a single cat. The Sistine Chapel was so packed that I wandered if I’ll get out alive.
Had Gelato every day. It was fantastic 🍧

I had no idea that the tech park has a supercomputer. I wonder what they do with it. You can do miracles with a resource like that. Mine bitcoin 😉

Also something with AI.

Bansko is changing.
It used to be a small town with an old city. Then the ski zone came with thousands of new hotels, growing faster than the infrastructure. It had lots of people in the winter but was a muddy ghost town in the summer. Now the central area is expanding with paved walking streets that make it a summer resort as well.
The digital nomads and hipsters have found it. It has multiple co-working spaces. An abandoned hotel turned to a co-living space. The central square has daily events. People everywhere.

The success infected the nearby villages as well. Banya has multiple 4 and 5* hotels with mineral water.
I can see us going back with the goal to climb Vihren again. Not sure when. The summer season is over.