Category: Europe
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TIRANA – ALBANIA
18/12/24 – 20/12/24 By the time we landed in Tirana, after our long travel day, it was already close to midnight! Luckily, we were off the plane quickly, and Albania’s e-Gate system made for fast passage through passport control – our next step was to find the Luna bus, which operates between the airport and…
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MOSTAR – BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
17/12/24 Whilst we had originally intended to catch the train from Sarajevo to Mostar, some awful flooding a month earlier put paid to that – we made our way instead to the bus station next door! Balkan buses are the region’s primary mode of intercity transportation – they have some quirks, however, which one has…
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SARAJEVO – BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
14/12/24 – 18/12/24 The flight from Belgrade to Sarajevo was short and painless (unlike the chaos of the return journey, which I’ll get to later!). Sarajevo Airport isn’t too far away from the city, and there are apparently two bus routes – one which is a private bus from the airport to the city, and…
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NOVI SAD – SERBIA
12/12/24 We had decided before arriving in Serbia to take a day trip to Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, and capital of the autonomous Vojvodina region. After departing from Belgrade’s brand-new (and unfinished) railway station, on the fast, comfortable, double-deck SOKO train, we found ourselves quickly trundling through the Serbian countryside en-route to Novi Sad.…
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BELGRADE – SERBIA
11/12/24 – 14/12/24 It is a short flight between Bucharest and Belgrade, on an AirSerbia ATR72, however a delay at the airport meant we were slightly later arriving in Belgrade than planned! There are a few options for getting to the city centre from the airport in Belgrade – the A1 minibus, or the 600…
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BUCHAREST – ROMANIA
8/12/24 – 11/12/24 Brasov Station is still in the midst of a platform upgrade, meaning to get across to the active train platforms, you have to walk on ground level across some tracks, and through some construction work – no major issues though! We discovered later on that the weekend just gone had actually been…
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BRASOV – ROMANIA
6/12/24 – 8/12/24 There are a few trains that run between Hungary and Romania, but most are operated by Romanian Railways. The Corona, a Hungarian Railways sleeper train, plies the route between Budapest and Brasov, taking a somewhat circuitous route in order to serve Hungarian-speaking locales in northern Romania. I’d chosen the Corona deliberately –…
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