On Thursday we prepared ourselves for our first train journey: the eight hour trip to Belgrade, Serbia. After trekking down to the station and finding right platform we were all aboard and ready to go. We were in a compartment of six, it was fairly spacious and comfortable. It was also very cold at times although a lady in our compartment told us we were lucky as we were in the only carridge with heating that worked (sort of). The journey was fine, we saw some n...

Hi everyone. Well we're 3 days into our trip now, and we haven't got homesick yet. Here's hoping we can hold out for another month or ten before that sets in! We left the UK from Manchester airport at about 2pm and arrived in Sofia at about 7pm local time (+2 hours). The flight was stress-free and actually took about an hour less than we were expecting which was a bonus. As we're travelling on a budget we decided to get the bus into the centre rather than a ...