Month: June 2026

The journey from the border check to the main station was a slow trundle and we arrived later than expected. The first task was to sort out a travel card each and we were prepared for the process thanks to The Man in Seat 61 only to find that, like the border crossing, things had changed. Instead of a cash only process the new machines […]

Today would see our last rail journey of the trip, the sleeper from Sofia to Istanbul. As departure, obviously, wasn’t until the evening we had pretty much a full day to wander some more and visit the remaining bars on my hit list. It was a twenty minute stroll to the first bar of the day, 100 Beers. A bottle shop that also offered 4 […]