http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/gaudi/park-guell.html
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stockholm:
We can get the sandwich cakes, and also some nice pastries, from here
http://www.wienerkonditoriet.se/
they open at 7 am!
click on Kontakt for a map, it's just about walking distance from the station.
on the way back to the station, we pass by Hemkop, in the basement of Åhlens City
http://stockholm4foreigners.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/hemkp-city-stockholm.html
where we can get anything else.
Therefore, we should do the circuit including the djurgardsvagen ferry anti-clockwise, i.e go to gamla stan, get the ferry over to djurgardsvagen and then make our way back to the station.
I make that a 53 bus to Slussen,
ferry to djurgarden (07:24 or 07:48), takes 10 mins.
bus 44 up to karlaplan
one stop on the red line back to ostermalmstorg
do the two shops above on way back to station.
the only problem with that plan is there's no provision for doing any of these funky tube stations they've got cut out of rock, Radhuset is the closest interesting one to the central, just one stop.
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I found the timetables, so correction to bus 44 to karlaplan,
07:01 - 07:09 Bus 53 from Centralen (Vasagatan) towards Henriksdalsberget. Alight at Slussen (Katarinavägen).
07:24 - 07:34 Djurgårdsfärjan from Slussen towards Djurgården. Alight at Allmänna gränd. (this is the boat, I am not 100% Allmänna gränd is the last stop).
07:44 - 07:51 Spårväg City tram 7 from Liljevalchs/Gröna Lund towards SERGELS TORG T-Centralen. Alight at Nybroplan. (and every 10 mins after that)
then walk up Birger Jarlsgatan to our Konditieri, and then the 1km backl to the station via thr supermarket.
but no tunnel banana at all now. over an hour to play with on that, assuming we can find the 52 bus stop within 24 mins after impact.
this bakery I've found could concievably do everything, including breakfast, so if we are on the money we could walk the shorter distance to Otsermalmstorg and do a little tubing.
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The most cost effective way of doing this seems to be buying 2 lots of 16 tickets at 180SEK each, that works out about £2.25 each with 15 of us, plus the boat which is an astonishing £4.20 each.
It's still cheaper than getting a pass, which has the boat free, the pass comes in at over £12 including the electronic card "that you can use again on your next visit ..."
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In Rome, actually in Termini, is a chain called Ciao Autogrill with excellent reviews. As it's as good as on the platform and is self service it's ideal.
Rome isnt great for street food, though I'm sure we can get a slice of pizza somewhere to keep us running.
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ploce to split
according to this
http://www.buscroatia.com/routes-search/?dS=Ploce&aS=Split&d=2012-09-28&t=11:30
the next (listed) bus after our arrival seems to be a 12:10 which goes along the coast road, which is a bit slower but much better.
it doesnt originate at Ploce though, but at metkovic, on the boirder just up the road. we could get off there instead, but that wouldnt be the done thing with track ahead and a train running on it, that we are actually sitting on. I dont know what the booking chances are, but they have nice looking buses on their website.
http://www.promet-makarska.hr/
And that palm tree bearing station at Split is actually on the harbour. there's another bigger station, Predgrade, but we dont have to leave the main promenade area, which I think is where most of the touristy stuff is (at least 11 churches in about 1/4 of a square km)
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regarding disaster recovery in Bucharest, there is, alledgedly, a bus at 4pm which takes 7 hours, so as long as we were to get on that then it's as you were.
failing that, it's trying to get on the 23:28 night train, with probably no chance of a bed, which would probably get in after our scheduled local train departure, so we'd then have to road it all the way to skopje.
all very messy.
we need to get some first hand reports on what time this budapest train generally gets in these days now the line to brasov is supposedly fixed.
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well this is good news, bang on the money according to this report. and it looks a damn nice train to boot, and it does have showers!
http://www.railbookers.com/blog/2011/04/taking-the-night-train-from-budapest-to-bucharest/
how odd, he got the train to Bucharest, through Brosov, then got the train back again the following day up to Brasov. Must be one of these lunatics who just goes on trains for the sake of it.
I've mailed the nice lady in Belgrade who told me that the sofia train is always late, to see how well behaved that skopje train is. I think we've zero chance of a wash on that one though.
oh, hang on,
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=2138003, this says there are no beds at all in and out of skopje as these were part of the greek service.
buggerski
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I am now being tolds that it has couchettes, with sheets and everything, i.e as good as India ACiii. I was always expecting at least one of these trains to have an issue with respect to the standard of the sleeping facilities, indeed of the very existence of a proper lie down.
and anyway, it gets in on time, no trouble, says Ognjenka.
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I am now thinking that an 09:57 kick off from Sofia, on a local train, which only goes about 1/3 of the way anyway, and takes forver doing it, needs adjusting.
The bus for the 2nd part over the border and to Skopje wil be at least "10 euros" each. A taxi the whole way is 100, so we should be able to get 2 people carriers to do the whole lot for under 300, so 25 euro sheckles each and we get to leave at mid day, and dont have to factor in buffer time, if we are 15 mins late getting back to canape connection (the currently desgnated sofia sleep option subject to final review) then we are 15 mins later getting to skopje.
GC*RC precedent allows for such blatant cheating when the timetable or network just dont match up to requirements.
