Monday 23 April 2012

City cards

Since I will be spending several days in several capitals, I have looked at city cards to see what advantages I can have (free transport, free entrance to monuments and museums...).

The first interesting discovery I have made is that there is a website that list the available cards with their price, and gives direct access to the relevant website:


Once there, I looked at the pass I was interested in, and I have noticed that prices are increasing from the South to the North: for 72h, the Budapest card costs about 26€ (the exact price is in HUF, the hungarian forint), the Prague card costs 55€ and the Copenhagen card costs 65€. I can't imagine how much the scnadinavian cards must cost!

Monday 16 April 2012

Train pass ordered

My rail pass is ordered!
It gives me access to the trains in 30 european countries for 10 days of travels in a period of 22 days.

Sunday 15 April 2012

Sofia to Copenhague

My first tentative itinary:

Arrival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
First leg takes me to Provdiv, Bulgaria.
Second leg to Romania, to Bucarest.
I will probably go to Brasov, Romania, from there.
Then direction Budapest in Hungary.
From there, I can either make a stop in Vienna, Austria, or Bratislava, Slovakia, before going to Prague in the Czech Republic.
The next natural stop is Berlin, Germany, although I am considering bypassing the capital altogether and going straight to Denmark and Copenhague.

Well, that's the first rough itinary!

Thursday 12 April 2012

Itching feet

It began with an itching, starting small, growing strong: that's when I knew that my wanderlust was back, stronger than I had felt it in a long while.

The project could have started small, but it was too late for that. If going to Vienna in December wasn't enough to assuage it, then travelling a few days wasn't going to be enough.

I looked around, had a few troubled and excited thoughts, and the project coalesced into crossing Europe in train from South to North. I would have liked to start in Istanbul, but pragmatic considerations have placed my starting point in Sofia, Bulgaria.

And from Sofia, the train will take me to Copenhague, Denmark, in three weeks. Three marvellous, probably sweaty and gruelling weeks taling me to thoses places I have dreamt of seeing for an eternity.

In July, I turn thirty. And my way to celebrate is to leave the next day.