We are in Budapest at the moment. Got the train yesterday from Brasov - took eleven hours!! Journey was ok Linsey managed to finish a 400 page book!! I was more interested in a really cool dog i saw - pictures to follow. We got to Budapest at about 8pm - couldnt find any decent restaurants because it was easter Monday. Found a place in the end was feeling pretty tired after so got a early night. Spent today going around the city - Linsey made me walk up another ...

We left Sofia about 4 days ago (I think!) the train from Sofia to Bucharest was 11 hours! The train was supposed to leave at 8.20 am but it was delayed until 9.45!! Needless to say we were desparate just to get going! The train itself, was absolutely disgusting! From the outside it looked like a train that you sometimes see abandoned on the tracks with broken windows and grafitti everywhere! When we walked on, we went past the toilet - if anyone has ever seen tra...

We are in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria at the moment. To be honest, had a pretty rubbish couple of days! We got the train from Thessaloniki, which was 7 and a half hours. Unfortunately it was full so we were sitting/standing at the end of the carriage with our backpacks - not too comfortable! To make it worse, everyone seemed to be coming in to this bit to smoke, and they all needed a fag every 2 minutes so it was pretty gross. Jack was sitting on the steps rea...

Been in Athens for a couple of days now, leaving here tomorrow night. We've seen all the sights (the acropolis, temple of olympian zeus, roman stadium etc). Athens is just lovely to wander around anyway - lots of little markets and side streets with nice restaurants etc.We've mainly been eating Gyros while we are here - they are greek kebabs, and they are yummy, really greasy though, but the best (and cheapest) thing to eat when you are on the move!!Made ...

We are in Athens at the moment, arrived here at 6.30 this evening - only 24 hours after we left Bari in Italy...!! So, from Florence we decided to book the sleeper train to Bari, which we turned out to regret! Left Florene at 10.30pm on the Monday night to go to Bologna. Arrived in Bologna at 12.00 midnight, and left at 1.00am. Got on the train, absolutely knackered, to find we were sharing a 2 metre squared space with 4 other people. It was mingin, as soon as y...