Bulgaria Ski discussion board

I don`t know Baz, you do make some sweeping statements.
To say that it would never happen in a modern and developed place ????
I have been inconvenienced by French traffic controllers in lyon (48 hours), baggage handlers in geneva, local transfer drivers servicing the Tyrol out of Munich...
I spent two and a half days stuck in Albertville with about 8000 others attempting to get back from Tignes because of ultra heavy snowfall, opted for another week in Soll sleeping in a corridor (the hotel did provide bedding) because of heavy snowfall (i could have got out on the Tuesday but heh )....
In the twenty five years or so that i have been going to the alps either to work or to play i have witnessed numerous power cuts, lack of water, lightning strikes by local workers, in fact exactly what is being experienced in BG....
As to the 150 villages with no power, you very likely don`t appreciate that the common supply to each household is only 5amp, just about enough to run the lights and perhaps a tv, they generally do not rely on electricity for cooking, heating etc, they still use candle and oil lamps when the electic goes off or even when its there, its cheaper....
I don`t want you to feel that i am jumping on every comment you make, yes, there are problems. With no investment in the past 50 years or so the infrastructure is very weak, this is why they need financial assistance to bring the changes quicker. If no help was forthcoming the changes would still come, it would be on a differant timescale though...
Lets compare say the old Skoda to the new one, its still the same workers making them, its only investment that allowed it

steve c