Month: February 2026

Day 6 of the trip and the first day that we wouldn’t spend any of it on a train. The original itinerary suggested by Tailor Made Rail had listed a single night in both Bucharest and Sofia, but we decided that as these were our first visits to both cities we would add an extra night in each. So we had a rail free day, […]

We arrived pretty much on time in to a hot, very hot Bucharest after an uneventful journey. Sleep was sporadic as the beds weren’t the most comfortable but thankfully Romania’s entry in to Schengen at the start of the journey had removed the need for middle of the night border formalities. We jumped in to a taxi to the hotel where, as we expected, we […]