{"id":8846,"date":"2016-07-27T19:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2016-09-09T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T11:11:37","slug":"mission-go-to-the-cinema-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/mission-go-to-the-cinema-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission: Go to the Cinema in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek: Beyond is now in theatres and after much hemming and hawing, I’ve decided I need to see it in theatres even if I know I’m going to be disappointed by it. \ud83d\ude00 I had quite a lot of research to do, though, to determine that seeing it in a Bulgarian theatre was feasible.<\/p>\n

First, I trolled a bunch of travel forums to learn that films in Bulgaria are subtitled. So like in\u00a0Mexico, I could enjoy a movie in English.<\/p>\n

Next, I had to determine if getting to a cinema on a day trip would be feasible. I did a search for “kino sofia” (\u043a\u0438\u043d\u043e \u0441\u043e\u0444\u0438\u044f) and got a list of cinemas. I picked the IMAX theatre at the\u00a0Mall of Sofia because I had a rough idea of where it is and that it would be convenient to get to from the bus station and have grocery stores between the two.<\/p>\n

On their website, I assumed that “Star Trek” wouldn’t be translated and so I\u00a0typed “\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0440” into the search box, the Cyrillic phonetic spelling for\u00a0star. I didn’t have to go any further because\u00a0this pop up appeared:<\/p>\n

\"star<\/a><\/p>\n

This page confirmed that the movie is in English (\u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438) and that it started on July 22nd. In the drop down menus below, I selected IMAX Sofia, 3D performance, the date (July 28th), and then looked at the times. 12:30 would be perfect!<\/p>\n

Then, I had to figure out how to get to Sofia and back! This was the biggest challenge. I cobbled together a rough bus schedule from a number of sources. In an absolute best case scenario tomorrow morning, I will leave here around 6:40AM to get to the junction by\u00a07:00AM to hopefully catch the Teteven-Sofia bus something before 7:00 and 7:30. Worst case, I will have to walk to Yablanitsa to arrive by 8:00AM and then catch the first of numerous buses to Sofia. If I get offered a lift to Yablanitsa before the Teteven bus is due to pass, I’m taking it!<\/p>\n

That would\u00a0get me to Sofia by 10:00AM at the latest, giving me time to\u00a0walk to the Mall of Sofia by way of a few places whose interiors I wanted to visit, grab an early lunch, and find the theatre.<\/p>\n

According to the information above, the movie is two hours long, so, counting previews, I should be out of there by 3:00PM. That would give me just enough time to get a few groceries before grabbing the 4:00PM bus to Teteven that would let me off at the junction. Miss that one and I have a couple of buses to Yablanista I can take. Worst case for that scenario, I can’t get the taxi or a lift and I have to walk all the way home. So I’d be home between 6:00PM and 8:00PM.<\/p>\n

Will I succeed in my mission? Check back this time tomorrow. I suspect that since I’ve been getting up around 8:00, getting up by 5:30AM so I have time to walk the dogs will be the hardest part of the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star Trek: Beyond is now in theatres and after much hemming and hawing, I’ve decided I need to see it in theatres even if I know I’m going to be disappointed by it. \ud83d\ude00 I had quite a lot of research to do, though, to determine that seeing it in a Bulgarian theatre was feasible. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,636,915,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-europe","category-sofia","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}