"What if you travel through the Balkans for a month using only trains?"
You see landscapes you'd never spot from a plane: mountain villages gliding by, local people boarding with chickens under their arms. After a month, you know the art of train conversation in four languages and have stories that nobody back home believes.
Mees (29), Amsterdam — junior consultant, collects vintage train timetables
There I was at half past five in the morning on a Bulgarian platform, alone with just a backpack and an Interrail pass that was still valid for 18 days.
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