Hello from very cold, rainy Bansko. Whoops, I lost a headphone
I just wanted to do a quick live stream as part of the 90-day live stream challenge
I have a reflection for you today on the digital Nomad lifestyle because
today, I went skiing or snowboarding for the first time in Bansko and
So I'm in like this small little mountain town in Bulgaria and we all met at 8 a.m
At the gondola and skied until like there were three of us left at 5 p.m. A really long day of skiing
it was amazing and it hit me that I
I actually
Skied with more friends here than I did the last few times
I went skiing in the US and so I know that a lot of people are concerned with like
when they become a digital nomad or when they travel, like - How will they meet people? and
at this co-working space, Coworking Bansko
There are so many people that are here for the [winter/ski] season and there were about 20 of us today
up on the mountain and it's just a really great way to connect to your local community and
Just kind of plug right in
I mean
I've only been here for a few days and I'm already skiing with this like big group of people from all around the world
people from Poland people from
France people from England people from the US and it was just such a cool feeling
to be able to do that and I wanted to
Stream this from the actual mountain
But the internet wasn't too good up there. So I'm doing it now, but
that's the reflection that I have for you guys today that
you can move to a country that you may have never been to and
you can plug into the local digital nomad community and you can end up having, like, ski buddies and
like 10 or 20 people to go skiing with. When, if you go to Colorado or
Somewhere in the US you might only go with one other person like maybe a friend or a significant other or something like that
but um, yeah, so just not to be afraid of
Taking a risk and go spend like you can spend an entire
Ski season in a place like this for the same price as like a few days in Aspen, for example
or a week in Aspen
Probably a few days haha because so expensive there. But um, yeah, so
I'm just hanging out downtown
Bansko this is the scene here. We just went to the
grand opening of the
Winter Market, so it's like
Basically like a European
Just like those regular Christmas markets, but not during Christmas - with mulled wine and all of that great stuff
with a really funny DJ wearing a kilt and it's just like it's a weird so
really interesting like diverse group of people, but
Yeah, it's really fun. And
I love to show you guys these sorts of things about a place like Bulgaria because it's a place that I didn't know
What it was like before I came here. So here is the
See if I can turn this around. This is a really cool bar called Pirin 75 and
There's just a big group of us. We're gonna have some drinks and
Maybe hit the slopes again tomorrow
It's a nice little bar
It's about 11:30 p.m. So there's not so many people out down here
But there's a lot of different streets all with different like restaurants bars clubs things like that
But we're just gonna hang out here for a little while. So
As of this morning, I really didn't know anyone here and now I have like 20 new friends
So you want to know how to make friends as digital nomads, go somewhere with a cool co-working space
Which I'm actually publishing a video on that next week just plug into the local community and there you go
Everyone's super nice and it really open to making other friends as well
I hope you guys are having a great weekend and see you tomorrow on another livestream here on Traveling with Kristin! 👱🏼‍♀️