Trip to Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Poland in March 2025

2025-03-04 TUE

16:06 Ipswich 

🚆 Use mTicket app to buy the ticket ($10.5)

16:46 Chelsea

16:55 Chelsea

🚌 SL3

17:05 Logan Airport

20:00 Terminal E

✈️ 34A

2025-03-05 WED

7:50 London Heathrow Airport

9:00 Terminal 3  Moisturizer was taken out by the security check. The departure bulletin did not post gate number until 8:10. It said gate 24. The staff said the gate changed to 9 when I reached there. I got an email from Kayak saying the gate changed to 39. The waiting at gate 9 was long.

✈️ 30E

14:10 Sofia Airport (disembarking and wait for the bus to take the last passengers to the passport control took 20 minutes. The passport control and customs took little time. .

14:50 M4 station is right outside the airport hall. A policeman there kindly guided the entry with a credit card without buying a ticket. (Ticket $1)

🚇 M4

Serdica. Five-minute walk to to transfer to M2

🚇 M2 

Central Railway Station. Five-minute walk

15:00 Guest Rooms Kom

BarberHood, two very nice big fellows.

MiniMart, small but nice selections, super-friendly clerk

2025-03-06 THU

Meet the birds of Sofia tour. Ran out of time after touring Borissova Garden and South Park.

Jeko Sport Bar&Dinner has great food and very nice staff.

Communist Tour. Nicola

2025-03-07 FRI

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Garmin Sofia to pick up a charging cable.

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Aleko hut on Mountain Vitosha (1840m)

🚶‍♂️(10km, half covered with snow)

Bistritsa

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Guest Rooms Kom

2025-03-08 SAT

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West Park

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14:00 Sofia Central Bus Station (luggage storage: $5 BGN/piece)

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17:00 Bansko, the largest ski resort in Eastern Europe (75km)

17:30 Hotel Tipic (George, the owner's son was sleeping. I worked on my laptop for half an hour. George is very friendly. He upgraded my room to a suite with 3 rooms.)

2025-03-09 SUN

10:09 Hotel Tipic

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10:40 Smart Ski Academy recommended by a Brit met at the Communist Tour. Very nice people. No deposit. Free storage of skis, bags, shoes, helmets.

⛷️ 34km. Soprano's food tastes OK. No salt, pepper, or napkins.

17:00 Smart Ski Academy

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17:30 Hotel Tipic

2025-03-10 MON

9:30 Hotel Tipic

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10:00 Smart Ski Academy

⛷️ 34km.

16:30 Smart Ski Academy

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17:00 Hotel Tipic

2025-03-11 TUE

9:56 Hotel Tipic

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10:30 Smart Ski Academy

⛷️ 38km.

17:35 Smart Ski Academy

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18:10 Hotel Tipic

2025-03-12 WED

9:14 Hotel Tipic

🚶‍♂️5km (City Park, narrow gauge railway, birding)

10:20 Hotel Tripic

14:39 Bansko Train Station

🚆 Narrow Gauge

19:12 Septemvri Train Station. The narrow gauge train is punctual

19:24 Septemvri Train Station

🚆 Intercity fast train

20:20 Plovdiv, the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe

20:40 Guest Rooms Best Rest

2025-03-13 THU

23:49 Plovdiv Train Station

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2025-03-14 FRI

5:55 Varna

🚶‍♂️ 10 km walking tour of museums and parks.

14:40 ДОМ1

2025-03-15 SAT

🚶‍♂️ 12 km walking tour of the seaside park, monument of the Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship. 

20:30 Varna Bus Station. The bus was supposed to depart on 15:00, but it got stuck at the Bulgaria-Turkey border and was late by 5.5 hours. 

🚌 Like Bus from Ukraine

23:10 Constanta, canceled the booking at Il Castello near the bus station, and stayed on the bus

🚌 Like Bus from Ukraine

2025-03-16 SUN

1:30 Romania-Ukraine Border. Romanian border control, crossing Danube by ferry and Ukrainian border control cost 2.5 hours. 

🚌 Like Bus from Ukraine

7:40 Odesa Railway Station. 

8:30 Ana/Slava Home

15:00 

🚶‍♂️ 3.5 km

16:00 Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Opera Turandot)

18:46 Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Opera Turandot)

🚶‍♂️ 4 km

19:30 Ana/Slava Home

2025-03-17 MON

15:43 Gradia Elite (Teeth exam and cleaning)

🚶‍♂️ 4 km

16:30 Ana/Slava Home

18:00 

🚶‍♂️ 6 km

19:30 Ana/Slava Home

2025-03-18 TUE

17:53 Gradia Elite (Tooth restoration)

🚶‍♂️ 4.6 km

17:00 Ana/Slava Home 

2025-03-19 WED

5km run to Taras Shevchenko Park

17:46 Gradia Elite (Tooth extraction and temporary bridge)

🚶‍♂️ 5.7 km

19:10 Ana/Slava Home

2025-03-20 THU

11:43 Ana/Slava Home

🚶‍♂️ 19 km, Diukivskyi Sad, Odesa National Medical University, Museum of Fine Arts, Taras Shevchenko Park

18:00 Ana/Slava Home

2025-03-21 FRI

10:00 Odesa

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13:30 Shabo

16:00 Shabo

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17:00 Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi

2025-03-22 SAT

7:45 Fiesta

🚶‍♂️4.2 km,  Pershyy Prychal "Rybatsʹkyy Kray", Church of St. Ioan the Predtecheya, Park Viysʹkovoyi Slavy

9:15 Fiesta

11:12 Fiesta

🚶‍♂️3.2 km, Bilhorod-Dnister fortress

13:00 Fiesta

17:20 Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi

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19:30 Odesa

21:00 Odesa

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2025-03-23 SUN

5:50 Kyiv Pasazhyrskyi

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9:30 Hotel Ukraine

14:24 Hotel Ukraine

🚶‍♂️10 km, Golden Gate, St. Michael's Golden-Domed

17:24 Hotel Ukraine

19:00 National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Anniversary concert of the M.V. Lysenko Kyiv State Musical Theatre)

2025-03-24 MON

12:00 Hotel Ukraine

🚶‍♂️🚇 15km Askold's Grave, Holodomor Genocide Museum, Kyiv Pechersk Larvra

15:10 Hotel Ukraine

17:00 National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Stage – for children! L. Revutskyi State Children's Theatre No. 5)

2025-03-25 TUE

12:04

🚶‍♂️Pergola and Recreation Area, V rebro

16:15 Hotel Ukraine

18:35 Hotel Ukraine

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19:00 Kyiv Pasazhyrskyi,

20:21 Kyiv Pasazhyrskyi, 

🚆 Kyiv-Warsaw Express

2025-03-26 WED

10:20 Warsaw Wschodnia railway station

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11:10 Zachodnia station

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15:10 Warszawa Zachodnia

2025-03-27 THU

11:23 Warszawa Zachodnia

🚶‍♂️Pole Mokotowskie, Polish Airmen Memorial, 

15:30 Warszawa Zachodnia

19:00 Warszawa Zachodnia

🚶‍♂️Multimedialny Park Fontann

21:08 Warsaw Old Town

2025-03-28 FRI

4:38 Warszawa Zachodnia

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4:55 Warsaw Chopin Airport

7:40 Warsaw Chopin Airport

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9:40 London Heathrow Airport

12:00 London Heathrow Airport (originally scheduled for 11:25)

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15:50 Boston Logan Airport (originally scheduled for 15:00)

16:50 Logan Airport T Station

🚌 SL3

17:05 Chelsea commuter rail station

17:46 Chelsea commuter rail station

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18:30 Ipswich commuter rail station

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17:53 Home