Day 25 Sorrento Finally, we arrived in Italy. Now all we had to do was get from Bari to Sorrento so we hopped on a bus from the port to the train station and I found out the next train to Naples wasn't until 4pm. It was 11:30am at this point. So we did what any other sane person would do. Found the nearest McDonalds and vastly outstayed our welcome. When we were there I experienced that the toilets were only slightly better than the holes in the floor in Ista...

ATHENS Day 20 So we arrived in Athens at 5am after one of the longest, most drawn out pain in the arse journeys known to man. I will now forever resent Turkey and Bulgaria for their lack of decent travel modes and connections. We were that close to just grabbing the nearest donkey and pointing to the horizon, at our most desperate, it seemed the easiest option. Anyway, Athens, 5am. We'd had very little sleep on our train from Thessaloniki and it was still prett...

Bulgaria Day 18 It's now the next day and we are still travelling, having been dropped off at a deserted train station in what feels like the 3rd world. Not being told where we are, we had to get on a train and change, again not knowing where we were. I swear there weren't any paved roads and there were donkeys milling about and gypsies selling shrunken heads. Think the film Borat and you're getting close, the sad thing is I'm not even joking. When the 21st cen...

Istanbul Day 14 We managed to negotiate Budapest's public transport network with reasonable success and not much stress to get to the airport in good time for our flight. That was when we saw the check in hall. Christ. To get our bags on the plane it was literally a scrum with only natural selection deciding who got there first. I don't know whether it's my Britishness shining through but what's wrong with a queue? After that charade, we eventually landed Ist...

Day 10 We arrived in Budapest around half 8 in the morning feeling a little worse for wear considering it was earlier than we'd got up in our time away. After checking into our hostel we went on a bit of a walk down Andrassy Ter. and visited the column of heroes which is a massive monument at the end of the street and then to the ominous sounding 'House of Terror'. It was a monument to the Jews who were tortured in Hungary during the Holocaust. Along with this...