Weekend in Moldova (day 4 -6) Part 1

Friday was kind of a quiet day - I finished a proposal for Softexpert and sent it out to 60 possible clients (cold clients) and I started to translate a list with some of our members to find interesting partners to visit in week 41, primarily focusing on honing producers, furniture manufactures, and textile producers - and explanation will follow later on why these companies. I got way to much room in my office, but at my boss says "Get some deals done, and you can fill it out ;)"

The day went with work, and I didn't really think about going out friday. Instead I worked to around 1.30 am and went to bed. I have a two persons bed, which I'm really glad for because I'm a major cover hog - I like to fill the entire bed. I'm truly horrible in that way ;)

  

Saturday I woke up and went with my boss out for brunch while we talked about what we were doing today. He wanted to show me a little more of Chisinau, some of his buildings, and buy a new car for the company. We went to the Toyota dealership, tried some cars (also cool considering the kamikaze way they drive here) and picked a Toyota Auris from 2011 at the staggering price of 15.000 € (it's times like that which make me wonder why I even own a car in Denmark)

I asked if this was a pretty nice car in Moldova, but I already knew the answer "It's a okay work car Jesper, but you got to have something better yourself...I prefer a Lexus Hybrid; good comfort, engine, milage - what more do you want?" A car like that is around 65.000 €. 

At 6 pm I went out for some cigarettes and a beer - I settled for a 20 pack of Lucky Strike for nostalgia, and a 0,5 L Carlsberg. Carlsberg is one of the more expensive beers down here and cost me a whopping 18 MDL (9 DKK) and the cigarets cost me 11 MDL (5,5 DKK). Now, as some of you might know, I don't really smoke. Maybe a little when I'm having a few drinks, but I never actually carry a pack of cigarettes on me. However, as I have learned the last couple of days with meetings, is that a lot of people smoke in Moldova - especially business people. And they can and do smoke everywhere, so that's really something coming from a country where smoking indoors is illegal. Choosing to buy that pack of cigarettes would be a very good choice later that saturday night, but it's getting late and I have a meeting at Hotel Leogard tomorrow at something called "Danish days in Moldova". I'll tell the rest of what happened saturday night, sunday, and get up-to-date with what's happening down here. I'll leave you with some pictures from that saturday before night in downtown Chisinau - J out!