Detailed instructions how to destroy 130 euro shoes

1) Get shoes for 130 euro (can be bought even in a sale – as mine).

2) Find a friend who was in a military service.

3) Ask the friend (in my case Estonian) to come for a weekend to do some hinking in the mountains nearby.

4) Take a chair lift to get into the mountains. (Walking up is too exhausting)

5) Have a small talk with chair lift crew, they can give you some discount (as we got, so we paid 3 leva instead of 10 :)

6) Up in the mountains, start your hiking in wet grass with some mud. Oh, don’t forget to give the map to a girl who can’t read in maps well.

7) Shoes are now totally wet and dirty. Enjoy the deciduous forrest all around. Have lunch. Bread with tuna. See some gipsies having their lunch, too. Don’t be surprised if a horse, who obviously ran away from his (gipsy) owner, shows up. Be glad you’re sitting after several hours of walking (don’t forget, there’s „army“ guy with you!)

8) Follow a sign saying in 1 km there’s a restaurant.

9) Have a proper lunch there with some pancakes :)

10) Ask for a room.

11) Have a pillow fight.

12) Let your „too active“ friend take you for a short trip to the highest mountain of Sinite Kamani, which is nearby.

13) Remember, there is no path going to Bulgarka (the highest point), when you pass teenagers trying skiding in their parents‘ old car (which makes terrible noises), you have to find your own. Your shoes will suffer again in a layer of old leaves and mud.

14) Enjoy the view. It’s magnificent. Take some pictures and then go back.

15) Have some more fights in your hotel room.

16) Wake up late the next day. Watch Winnie the Pooh. The Tiger’s Story. Very sad, but with happy end.

17) Start walking again.

18) Talk to two old Bulgarian women who will want you to join them. Run away.

19) Take the wrong way. The very steep one going down. Have a lot of leaves and earth in your shoes. Sit and refuse to move. Have some more dirt in your jeans as well.

20) Feel sorry for your shoes.

21) Get the right way. Meet a tourist with camera. Try to get rid of him.

22) See the two old Bulgarian ladies. Run. Run. Hide.

23) Take some pictures in the rocks.

24) Walk. Walk. Walk. No rest.

25) Finally back in Sliven.

26) Buy a melon.

27) Throw it away in three days.

28) Clean your shoes and check all scratches :(