SOFIA, BULGARIA (1989)
The bed was not good. There might have been bugs.
I left Portugal in the spring of 1989 and headed east to Istanbul. Most of this trip was through Western European countries. But the last stretch would be through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, which in the spring of 1989, still had communist governments.
With a special visa—which I got in Rome—you could ride a train through this are…
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