“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be,
to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson
As I mentioned in a previous post, delineating the different ‘regions’ of Europe is not a simple matter. I mentioned that I had decided to go with the CIA factbook delineation of Central, Eastern, South Eastern, with Russia recognised as a transcontinental country with a ‘regional’ label all of its own.
Southeastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia
Only Romania and Bulgaria are part of my itinerary for Overland to Oz.
Day 9: Budapest, Hungary to Timisoara, Romania. (I don’t have to change in Arad or anywhere else; the two trains (the ones leaving at 9.45AM and 3.45PM from Budapest) go directly to Timisoara.
Day 10: Timişoara to Alba Iulia – Leave Timisoara Nord station at midday with train A 1767, departing at 15:10 and arriving in Alba Iulia at 19:11. Cost: 64.20 Lei (approx. $26.15) in 1st class. Upon arrival, find a hotel in Alba Iulia.
Day 11: Sofia, Bulgaria (not sure yet which trains to catch from alba iulia to Sofia) [I’ll be using db BAHN for train reservations]
Day 12: Bucharest, Romania (see <http://logisticsmoldova.com/about/how/train/> for more information.)
Day 13: Iasi, Romania (I plan to visit with the partner church of my church in Scotland, so I plan to be with the community for a Sunday).
To go back to the post where I introduce all the itinerary posts, click here.
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Traveller. Scholar. Photographer. Writer. Dreamer. Teacher. Anna Blanch is founder of Goannatree, and a PhD candidate in the Institute of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Overland to Oz is a crazy adventure marked with photos and word and inspired by the incredible women in Anna’s family, especially her late grandmother, whom she knew as Nan-Nan.
