[raaad]

Hitting the Balkans in September and have a bit of a cunundrum as to where to go.

I spent almost all of July in Split, Croatia and had a blast! Made a few great friends (locals) and scored an Aussie and Fin tourist. Sadly nothing local hence my desire to go back for most of September seeing as that the tourist crowds will thin and school comes back into session in October. The friends I made there are very active socially and I see a large potential to get introduced into social circles this trip. If I go I will also be taking language classes for the fun of it to fill time which I am sure wont hurt.

Reading on this forum however has influenced me to step back and reevaluate my plans and perhaps deviate towards Sofia, Bulgaria. I absolutely love the Bulgarian female look and a month there might prove very interesting. I also cannot believe how cheap it is! I am also assuming their school will be coming back into session around late Sept or Early Oct and want to see it before it gets cold, I dont do cold.

Odessa is also on my list of considerations but I may be stepping off the deep end hitting Ukraine for my first FSU visit even though from what I have read so far I might do ok and know enough Russian to possibly get myself in trouble

Just trying to get my ducks in row before I start some serious pipelining in the 2 weeks prior to my departure.


I am also thinking of moving somewhere in the Balkans since I can live anywhere in the world I want (and do very well), these trips are sort of a litmus test as to where I may want to relocate to for a year or two. I really probably should see more of the Balkans before I make some spontaneous purchase of property in Croatia, luckily the property purchase process takes some time for foreigners so it cant be that spontaneous haha. Croatia is my top choice for now because they dont use Cyrillic and their language is mutually intelligable in Bosnia and Serbia.

If anyone needs info on Austin, TX shoot me a message, that has been my playground the last 5 years.

[Orson]

I'm headed to Zagreb in the last week of September - or else first week of October. However, it's not yet clear if I'll spend November in Budapest. Nor do I have definite destinations beyond the "usual" ones here (eg, Prague), and Vienna. (Maybe South Tirol - sightseeing and hiking; maybe a week in the Greek Islands before the summer season closes down.)

I to am looking to relocate to Europe, myself - but not until next spring or summer. (This winter I have reserved for some major surgical repair work to be done in the US.)

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[MikeS]

As you correctly state the students should start coming back to Sofia again towards the end of September, although as a Sofia resident for the last year and a half, it's not like I feel there's a total lack of hot girls on the street at any time during the summer.
Regarding the weather it's been a fair bit more varied this summer than last year. A lot more rainy days, but particularly the last month also plenty of sunny days with 28-32+ degrees Celsius.

As far as gaming the local girls goes I'm still fairly useless as help. Social circle game is probably just out of the question for me here, now and quite possibly in the future as well - I have a few local friends (with fairly useless social circles of their own as far as meeting women goes), but at 37 and always having been someone who recharges my batteries with time spent alone rather than other people (the old introvert label for those that like those, though I'm plenty social and talkative when I choose to be around people), I can probably never be arsed to go that route to getting laid.

So for me it's been night game (which I only tend to enjoy in brief stints of a few weekends and then a longer break, and ONS have been impossible for me here - except for once at the end of one very long first date, in stark contrast to my native Denmark where that's pretty much the norm) and online dating with not just barely mediocre results (gotten some lays from it, but those mostly 30something girls I end up going out with often don't seem to be too impressed with my not-really-looking-for-a-relationship signals, when they're that age it's actually easier to get somewhere with single mothers than those just single - and with a couple of exceptions last year, meeting women 10+ years younger through online "game" doesn't feel much easier than in Western Europe. And I came prepackaged from Denmark with the fairly muscular, scruffy, shaven head, slightly thuggish stereotypical Balkan look ).
So a few too many dry spells for me the last year and a half, though fortunately I don't have any moral or self image issues with filling those out with cheap P4P.

Daygame is going to be the way forward for me here if I want to meet younger, more attractive women.
But I still think nightgame can probably be a great option here for those younger or just still retaining the same fondness for clubs that I had when I was 12-15 years younger.
One thing I miss here is more of a dive bar scene with more options for mingling with people standing up. Clubs aside (and I tend to end up in those because they at least tend to make it easier to meet women here than bars), like in many other countries in Southern Europe and various other places, it's typically tables, tables and more tables, with people arriving and sitting in groups.
And I can't tell you how fucking annoyed I am by all the goddamn "reserved" signs on tables in all the more or less popular spots. If you come just a few people they'll try to park you in a dark corner of the bar. And if you come well before most people actually start arriving, they'll do the same - possibly with a warning that you'll need to move your ass once all the Important People start showing up (got that one with a date a couple of weeks ago when we were pretty much the first ones in a pretty large place).

But then I haven't at all checked out everything the nightlife has to offer here in Sofia, and I'm sure there might be some additional spots I would actually like going out with a friend or two or just solo sarging. And if I was 20-25 again I would probably spend most of my time going out in Studentski Grad (large university and dorm neighbourbood about 6-7 km from the center) instead of in the center.