I got to Istanbul via a 7 hour bus ride from Plovdiv. It’s one of the nicest buses I’ve ever been on, but it didn’t stop for breaks, other than a toilet stop as per request, but it got us to Istanbul fairly efficiently. I then had a bit of an adventure trying to find […]

I got to Plovdiv on a train from Sofia. The train ride was straightforward and I found the hostel without too many problems. Other than being rained-off one day, pretty much everything went to plan! I left the hostel in Sofia and asked the bloke working there which direction I needed to head in, in […]

I got to Sofia on a minibus from Nis. The bus was much smaller than I was expecting, but it was efficient and arrived an hour earlier than I was expecting, as I didn’t realise that Sofia is 1 hour ahead of Serbia! I had to wait almost 24 hours for the bus to Sofia, […]

I went to the train station the night before setting off to get a ticket to Nis, as the station was only 5 minutes from where I was eating that evening. I had asked in the hostel what the train times were and the woman helping me thought that the ticket office should be open, […]