Upon leaving the island of Mykonos we traveled on the ferry back to the port of Athens and then grabbed a metro to the Larrissa Station where we got on our overnight train to Sofia, Bulgaria. This is a 14 hour train ride through the country in the middle of the night with one stop in Thessaloníki. The train is equipped with a very scary bathroom at each end of the car and little tiny rooms with three bunks and a sink all the way down. We had booked a double which meant that we didn't have any stranger on the third bunk, which is good because I don't know where we would have put our packs.
This is us ready to drink our beers and go to sleep. At this point it was about midnight and we had been traveling already since noon.
Ryan between the bunks and the little sink, excited to sleep on a train.
We arrived in Thessaloníki at 6am and there was a lot of banging and crashing while we changed engines. Then we sped along again until we stopped at the Greek border for about an hour and then again at the Bulgarian border for longer. They came and took our passports away, but eventually gave them back with stamps. They were very incredulous that an American boy and American girl were going to Bulgaria. We were apparently a rarity and our conductor just called us "the Americans." He had to announce names in order to get most of the passports back to the right people and that is when we found out that the guy next door's name was Paul Anka. How funny!
The above are from our Nikon series showing the countryside of Bulgaria through the eyes of the train.
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