European Tour - Plan B

Unfortunately it looks like we'll have to give Romania a miss, since we've just found out that Bulgaria requires a visa even for Turks with a green passport (even Serbia doesn't do that!). So probably the route will be Thessaloniki, Skopje, then the overnight train to Budapest, keeping fingers crossed through Serbia. Actually, our worries are probably the result of prejudice, but it's hard not to remember the fact that (a) a number of Nalan's relatives wound up in Turkey in order to escape from Serbs (both in 1939 and more recently during the Kosovo war) and (b) my country only recently bombed Belgrade. It's going to be like Fawlty Towers: "Don't mention the war!"