On September 3rd, 2025 we head back to Thailand via six weeks in Eastern Europe. PDX-DEN-FRA-IST flights. Start in Istanbul, then Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Hungary, before flying back to Bangkok from Munich nonstop.
We begin in Istanbul, then fly to Bulgaria, and travel by car for a week. Then fly to Romania, and travel by car for two weeks. Then we fly to Serbia, and visit friends. Then on to Budapest for a last week or so. We will be just across a river from western Ukraine, but as Russia has been making misslle attacks on border crossing, we won’t visit Ukraine.
Then back to Thailand:
These are the ‘great circle’ or shortest routes. As the one to Bangkok flies over an active war area, I imagine we’ll actually detour south of that area! It does appear likely we’ll fly just south of the highest Himalaya mountains.
I will try to post more as time and internet connections allow. In much of rural Romania, we may be staying in small inns without internet.