We took a MyDayTrips car service from Skopje, North Macedonia to Sofia, Bulgaria. This was the second route we’d done with MyDayTrips so we were feeling more confident with the experience. MyDayTrips provides a car and driver to take you from Point A to Point B, and allows you to select a few tourist destinations …
We decided we wanted to visit Bulgaria and Romania, then stretched the itinerary West hit North Macedonia, and East to Moldova [the least visited country in Europe according to numerous sources, so of course we wanted to go!]. We thought we’d use Bucharest as our entry/exit point as we could book with airline points, but …
Why the Balkans? In all honesty, why not? We want to go everywhere and see everything, and we hadn’t yet been to the Balkans. Also, we had visited the Baltics a few years earlier and loved that region, and we wanted to continue exploring Eastern Europe. Now having been there, our top reasons to explore …
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 …