Not Your Average Travel Day | 3 Days From Switzerland to Bulgaria

Good afternoon from Lachen, Switzerland. We've been here for the past six days and we stayed for free. If you want to find out how, check out our last video, but in this video we are eventually going to make our way to Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This is our final destination in Europe where we have spent the last year. Really crazy to think that we've been here that long, but I am really looking forward to what's next. Right now we're at the train station where we're going to take a train from Lachen to Basel. Before we get to Bulgaria though, we actually have one night back in Zagreb, Croatia. We're really looking forward to going back because we're already familiar with the city and there's one place we've been dying to get back to. This train is to Zurich and then we have another train to Basel. Each ticket was $37. Super safe. This is a massive train station. We just got spit out on the far opposite side. We have just enough time to get some food before hopping our next train to Basel. I think we'll probably get Burger King. That's like the one thing I saw that's really close. They do have a lot of other things though. 33 francs, please. Almost 20 francs for a single meal. That's $20. There are cheaper places to eat in Zurich. You can go to the Migros grocery store and just get their pre-made meals. They're actually pretty good and both Amber and I ate for like 11 francs when we were in Zurich last week. So it is possible. Unfortunately we did not have time to get all the way to that store and back before this next train leaves. We gotta go. Nobody ever checked our tickets. We saw them. They just didn't ask us so it's kind of interesting. We're not entirely sure how to get from the train station here in Basel to the airport. I'm sure it's a simple thing like there's got to be another bus or a tram or something but we don't really have that figured out quite yet. We followed the people with the suitcases and it led us straight to the airport bus right out front. Where can we buy the tickets for this? Okay, thank you. Right out front there is a very obvious bus that says Euro airport bus. You can't buy tickets on board though so we got directed to just walk just a little bit of ways. You can go to a stand, buy your tickets and come back. This whole ordeal took like maybe three minutes. Tickets were six francs to ten cents. 15 minutes later and I think we've technically crossed back into France. Just over the border. Well this guy was very pleasant and he goes you guys aren't sitting together and I was like eh it's okay we see enough of each other and he goes no I can put you guys together. Okay, thank you very much. I never thought I would say this but this is our last Ryanair flight and I'm kind of sad. Yeah, me too. Are we going up? These flights were $82 total. We actually flew out of Basel because that was the cheapest way to get out of Switzerland rather than trying to find a flight out of Zurich and that's the only reason we're going to Croatia but just for the one night because the whole goal was to get to Bulgaria. We just got delayed an hour. It's about time. You can't hear us but we stood in line for like in an hour. Nathan's the sweetest. He always gives me a hug. Really random fact but Nathan and I happen to run into an Olympic gold medalist right in front of us in line on this flight. We're pretty pumped about that. We're not gonna tell you who it was but dang. It's really fun when airports start to look familiar. Like we've only been here once and it was for a moment but I remember it. We planned on taking an Uber but it's 17 euro so we're not gonna do that. We're gonna find a bus. We are getting hungry. We'll either get food that is as close to our hostel as possible or we are going to go to a nice restaurant. It's the same one we went to last time. Can't pronounce it but it might look familiar to some of you. What? We don't have a card? Yeah and those are out of order. In case you guys think we know what we're doing we just tried to buy a bus ticket from the parking meter so you know that happened. So I don't know. I think we're just gonna ask the bus driver and hope for the best. Yeah because I don't know how else to do it. Okay good? Thank you. We just got off the bus. How much was the bus ticket? It was six kuna per person. I didn't know if it was more. I think we just bought the full ticket. We bought it on the bus. Yeah yeah yeah. Oh thank you. The bus is expensive. Okay good to know. Thank you. So we were just informed it's supposed to be four kuna and we paid more because we bought it on the bus. Which is common in a lot of places so go to the newsstands. Yes but anyways it's 9 p.m we're not gonna get dinner tonight. I mean we're going to eat but we're not gonna go out for dinner like we'd hoped. Maybe we'll go tomorrow morning before our flight. It's still gonna be good. I'm so excited to be back here. We're so far outside of town. Nathan booked this one so see what happens. Hi booking for Nathan Sosa. Okay second floor. Here's our place for the night. The beds are very very comfortable so that is the best I hoped for. We have a table. Two separate beds. We're slightly outside of town but really not that far. We'll see you guys tomorrow morning either on our way to the airport or to a fancy restaurant for lunch. Who knows? Goodnight. Good morning. Last night all you missed was some wings and a thunderstorm. Water is totally gonna come in here. But now we're on the hunt for some coffee. We need it. The restaurant we want to go to doesn't open until 11 so we've got some time to kill. Like an hour. I knew we were in Croatia we're like it can't be that expensive but then we sat down and a cappuccino was $2.50 and I said it's kind of expensive. Amber gave me a look and we're sitting down now. All right. Finally getting some lunch. You guys might be sick of hearing about it but it's one of the best meals we've ever had. It was. Once again I'm not going to pronounce this place but it's right next to the world's shortest funicular. These people are so friendly. They didn't care that we had bags that we look like scrubs because it's a little fancier. We told them that we'd been here once before and they really appreciated that we're returning. This place is awesome. We cannot recommend it enough. If you're ever in Zagreb. As I remember they brew their own beer. They're very good at talking you into getting the half liter so that's what we got. What a great day. Last time we were here we ate so much we could hardly walk. That was so much food. All I know is this has beef and truffles in it and it's a homemade noodle. A very unique like style noodle. I love it. I'm gonna call this Croatian like pot roast. It's slow cooked beef sauce and gnocchi. I would fly here just for this. Yes. I understand this is supposed to just be another travel video but this is part of our travel between Switzerland and getting all the way to Plovdiv Bulgaria. The cannon is about to fire and that was not happening seven months ago when we were here. So we are going to eat this meal, watch the cannon fire finally and then head to the airport. Oh my gosh I jumped. Oh I might have. I don't think I missed it. I jumped so bad. That was great. I totally might have just missed that. I jumped so bad. That's why I said why. Yeah. Dang it. This video is so much more than just flying from one place to another. This is what we love about travel days. There's no expectation to these videos so there's no pressure but we have the best time. And then we end up in a new place that we've never been before. Yeah. So we always end on a good note. Pretty sure we just ran into our first vloggers Orhan and Amelia. They're from Toronto and they just stopped us and said hello because they saw the camera. Hello you guys. It was really nice meeting you. Please keep in touch. But now we are officially on our way to the airport. Let's just sit in the back. 12.55 is the next bus. What time is it? 14. And just like that we're back. Feels just like yesterday. Made it through security, made it through customs and for the first time we got snagged for having two bigger bags. We had to pay 20 euros each. Not a big deal. The only other time we've ever actually paid for our bags is the time where we almost missed our flight heading into Sardinia. But we've only had to pay twice. Doing pretty good. This flight was $15 a piece and then $20 for our bags so it's still only a $25 flight. Did you do that math right? 25. Let's try that again. This flight was $15 originally plus 20 for our bags so 35 euro each. Still not bad. It's better. Thank you. I'll see you later. Bye. I'm stuck in the back. He's in the way front. See you in Bulgaria. Hello. Normally we would never say exchange money at the airport but the place that we're booking tonight we have to pay in cash so I don't know if we really have another option but we're going right there so this is kind of what we need to do. I went to the money exchange at the airport which also doesn't give you the best exchange. Airport things are just more expensive. So I gave them a 50 euro and they gave me 90 back and doing the math I should have gotten 93. I didn't get a receipt either so I counted went back to the table and said I should have gotten 93. She said one moment gave me my three and gave me my receipt so I'm not gonna cry scam but always ask for a receipt. Do your own math. The numbers are posted. Just give me my experience. The currency in Bulgaria is the lev and our metro tickets were 1.6 lev. One lev 60. This metro station is literally right outside of the airport to your left. It's perfect. I love when that happens. There's one place to buy your ticket and this will take us almost right to where we're staying tonight. Center town. Awesome. There's also only one train so there's no confusion. Oh no confusion. This is almost as simple as it gets. Spain still isn't our final destination but I'm so excited to be in Bulgaria. Okay we love our first looks into a city. This is pretty good. Oh my goodness there are ruins right inside the metro. Pretty cool. Yeah. Wow. You've got a gorgeous sunset this way. Ruins right here. There's a massive street party with stages and lights going on right down here. I think we'll come back to check that out. And then there's this beautiful church off in the distance. We were told that we would like this city and they were right. There's a reason we didn't choose to stay here though. Kind of regretting that a little bit. Well I'm glad they've got signs posted. Do you know what floor? Places Nathan. Put this in. I like that. It's how you say thank you. I'll never remember it but I'm gonna try my hardest. So this is pretty much my place. This is the common area here. There is a big balcony outside. Okay. Thank you very much. Anytime if you need a towel there is also towels here. Okay. Oh okay. Awesome. Really appreciate it. We have three beds. Not so bad right? Nope. Not bad. I mean it's a little warm but that's I'm just like really hot right now. I chose this place. It was 19 euros for the night. We have a private. The host owner. Super cool guy. And then we're gonna go check out the street party later. Yeah so we're gonna head out. We're gonna explore. Good morning yet again. Last night as soon as we got to the room we basically just changed really quick and then went out and tried to see what that concert was all about. It was a coca-cola party so we only stood there for a minute. Got our free coke and left but it was cool. We may or may not have seen a really cool pop star from Bulgaria. I don't know. We haven't had coffee or breakfast yet so bear with us. We're gonna go grab the metro to get to the bus station and head to Plovdiv. Finally we made it to the correct place and we have well we've got quite a bit of time actually so we need to find some food. We were wondering if we should eat at the metro station before we got here but I figured that the train and bus station would be bigger and have more and I don't know if it does. There's lots of little shops here. A lot of all of those are different bus companies. What's inside of it? Cheese. Two banitsa. Cheese. We got banitsa which is basically burek. It's the same stuff we've gotten in Istanbul, Turkey, all over Turkey and all over the Balkans. They just call it something a little different here. It's pastry filled with cheese. Together these were four lev 25 or something like that and then we each got a cappuccino and these Little cheese. There you go. One thing I did learn about the cheese I should have known this already but it's brined cheese so it sits in water and it preserves it and gives it its salty flavor. Really good. I'm happy with it. Running into our first learning curve. It's the Cyrillic alphabet here so we're looking at the buses trying to find Plovdiv and it's not the right alphabet so we're gonna have to look it up see what it looks like and try to find it. I don't think our bus is here yet though. On the bright side all of these buses look pretty nice. We have a three-hour ride. It'll be comfortable. We have the tickets today at 10.50. Where? For Plovdiv. Well this is another bus station. That big building across the road. Okay. Platform number six. Six. Thank you very much. We saw a bus that said Plovdiv so we asked. It wasn't the right bus company and the man pointed us towards our bus company office and she said no no it's not this station. It's the other one. It's just across the parking lot. I'm really glad we asked because there are two stations side by side. I never would have even noticed that. No no. But we're at the wrong one obviously. Maybe this one's the international and we're just still domestic. That could be. That's my only guess. Print, print, print. I definitely bought these tickets because it said the electronic version was allowed. I mean that's why they give you the QR code. But no he says we have to print them. Sosa, Amber and Nathan. There's a bit of a disagreement on printing our tickets but we got on the bus without a minute to spare mind you. Our tickets did say important information you must print your tickets however when we went in to get our tickets printed the lady at the desk was like oh come with me and it seems like her and the driver had a little bit of an argument. And we're leaving now so. Yeah we made it. We also weren't the only person with this problem. No. These tickets were only eight euros per person. We bought them from getbybus.com which is where we normally get them from. I think the ride's about three hours long. Okay so don't listen to me this took exactly two hours. That's one thing I've learned about Amber while traveling is if she's moving you better keep up she's gonna leave you behind. We almost got stuck on the bus an extra stop. I couldn't get the door to open. I'm sure that was something we were doing wrong but button didn't work. This is the oldest occupied city in all of Europe. How exciting. Eight thousand years. Welcome to Plovdiv. We're gonna end this video at the Airbnb. We're almost there. A lot of times we've gone down some deep dark alleyways to find our door. I tell you. Just wait for it. Look at that. So cool. Don't worry there's an elevator. You know how nerve-wracking it is to almost open somebody else's door. Yay. Oh got a nice little kitchen. It's a nice place. It's really cute. Wow. I'm pumped. There's a balcony. Look at this. Not the smallest balcony we've ever had. It's pretty small though. That's how big this little balcony is. This place is $26 per night. I think we're only staying four nights. We've got a lot planned coming up so we're just going and going. It is true. The next three to four weeks is going to be go go go. We do not have the luxury of a week in a country anymore. All right we're gonna enjoy our vanilla passion mango passion fruit vanilla juice. Please stick around and watch our video coming up on Plopdiv. Please like this video if you're still here. Subscribe so that you know when we post our Plopdiv video and beyond. If you really want to help us out check out our Patreon page. Link in the description down below. Bye bye. Thank you. Nathan's so sweet. He gave me the window seat. He always does. I don't want to film. I'm gonna sit here and play my game. I film the takeoff. I film the landing. Wake up from a nap and go back to sleep. That's pretty much what happens. No, mostly it's...