Month: September 2022

We started of the day going to Bulgaria with the Tunnel of Hope Museum in Sarajevo. The Tunnel of Hope is a tunnel built during the seige of Sarajevo, and was the only source of outside food and supplies they had.

The rest of the day afterwards was spent driving to the airport, which would have given us and hour and a half to get to the plane. The airport was in a different country and as such required customs to get through. The customs took over an hour. So, the airport was incredibly stressful.

The first day in Sofia was just a rest day with some looking around at the churches. The second day was HOT. Charlie was too hot to do anything else after lunch so he left early. Me, Mom and James went to the Museum of Illusions, which was cool.

The next day was a 2.5 hour train to Plovdiv, Where we finished off Back to the Future. Dinner was in a pedestrian area that was mazelike. Charlie even got lost! The next day was just walking around the city.

The last place in Bulgaria was Burgas, a beach town. The rest of the time in Burgas was swimming in the pool and beach nearby.

From Budapest, we dropped our bags off at the train station and walked around. Then it was a delayed train of over 6.5 hours. After which was a long wait in line for entrance to the hostel, in which I slept on the floor.

The next day we got a small car, note the small, this will be important later, which couldn’t fit all of the bags in the trunk so everyone except for dad had a bag by their feet. We drove over to Trogir, which had was beach house. Then we drove to Splint the next day for lunch and ice cream. I believe that in these areas, people just park on the side walks because of the lack of available parking spaces. We checked out an ancient palace, which has old temples turned into restaurants.

The next day we drove to Sarajevo, the location of the longest siege in modern history. But first we stopped in Mostar to check out the cool bridge. The next day was a rest day. The day after we Checked out the War Children Museum. It was sad.

I think one of the worst stories was about a kid, not a teenager. He was really good and singing and joined this singing contest, which he really wanted to win. He was listening to the radio to find out if he won the contest. His sister said she remembered A boom and her mother’s scream. His family heard about him winning the day after their house was shelled. The same day they buried him. I’m just going to end this here.

It was a two hour train to Budapest from Vienna. We walked to the airbnb and dropped off our bags and called dibs on beds. Then it was walking our the nearby park. The park had a HUMONGOUS playground nearby. it had a small waterpark, trampolines, a zipline, and spiderwebs. There was even a ice cream machine nearby!

The next day we checked out St Stephens Basilica and the “Shoes on the Danube” which is there to show the people who the Nazi’s executed by the shore. We then took a train to an out of the way swimming pool in a town. Afterwards James just wanted to sleep so I stayed home while Mom and Dad got food with Charlie.