Leaving Bulgaria today. We stayed at a friend from AU's place. Hristo is from Sohpia and kindly let us sleep in a spare room he had in his apartment. While here we ate great Bulgarian cheese, got rained upon several times, and visited the beautiful Rila Monestary in the mountains.
Bulgaria was nice and relaxing, but now off to Berlin. We are flying Alitalia from Sophia to Milan to Berlin, so let us hope that they are not late, as we have only a short amount of time for our connecting flight in Milan.
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Overnight trains are very interesting. Especially when a border crossing and irate passport control officers are added into the mix.
The train left Istanbul bound for Sophia, Bulgaria, a 13 hour journey, at 10 pm. Anne, Vanessa, and I were in a sleeper car just for us for only 47 TYL per ticket, much cheaper than $260 USD flights to Sophia. The train rocked, was amazingly hot, and filled with people who smoked at the drop of a hat, but it got us to were we needed to be roughly on time, and I even managed to sleep for 5 hours or so.
One quick reason to love Sophia is that dinner last night, for 4 people with starter plates, totaled about $25 USD. Sometimes I love exchange rates.
The train left Istanbul bound for Sophia, Bulgaria, a 13 hour journey, at 10 pm. Anne, Vanessa, and I were in a sleeper car just for us for only 47 TYL per ticket, much cheaper than $260 USD flights to Sophia. The train rocked, was amazingly hot, and filled with people who smoked at the drop of a hat, but it got us to were we needed to be roughly on time, and I even managed to sleep for 5 hours or so.
One quick reason to love Sophia is that dinner last night, for 4 people with starter plates, totaled about $25 USD. Sometimes I love exchange rates.
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