We had not originally planned to go to Thessaloniki, but consider our visit there serendipity. When we shifted our flight to Athens, we needed to find the best way to get to Skopje, which was our next target city. While we could have flown from Athens to Skopje, there were no direct flights at the time …
On this, the very first Tauni & Michele trip, we were planning to hit up as many countries as we could (spending at least 24 hours in each), while trying to help Tauni hit ’50 countries before age 50.’ We both work full time and had ONE week. Those lucky Europeans have so many budget …
We took an 8-ish hour drive from Skopje, North Macedonia to Sofia, Bulgaria, which included two stops: quaint Osogovo Monastery in the North Macedonian hills, and magnificent Rila Monastery about 2 hours out of Sofia. Our personable MyDayTrips.com driver Ivo dropped us off at our hotel. And so our Sofia adventure began! Sofia was one …