Crossing the border into Bulgaria

Mosquito bite update for the day-
My knuckles have swollen so much they don’t really look like knuckles anymore. :/

Oh well, moving on...

Long journey over to Sofia today which started with another crazy taxi driver, followed by a boiling hot train. Passport control at the border was a bit strange as a man came to collect everyone’s passports and told us we would get them back tomorrow. (What a joker- we weren’t in the mood) Not long after, we arrived at the first change over where our passports were taken off us again. Everyone seemed to be handing them over so we guessed it was normal. It was quite comical hearing the Bulgarian guy read out all the names on the passports to give back though, and that killed some time!

The second train was great! It reminded me of hogwarts express with a separate carriage for everyone. Views on the journey were nice, especially when the sun went down :) it was a 6hr journey on this train- plenty time for more travel planning, french lessons, a movie, food and WINE. Ok it was out of a paper cup which we had re-used but 'wine not'. 😏

It’s 1am- happy to be heading to bed now for an early start to explore what’s going on in Sofia!Read more