Sophia to Dubrovnik train or bus

Hi

Please can you help with a route from Sophia (Bulgaria) to Dubrovnik bus or train
My daughter has just left Thessaloniki as she tried to get the Belgrade Bar train to Nis but had no luck as they have stopped the train so has taken the bus to Sophia do you have any quick way or the shortest route to Dubrovnik

Many thanks in advance stressed mum trying to plan from home.

That sounds very weird - trains are operating fine in Serbia and Macedonia right now. ..maybe Greece has some strikes. So I'd take the train from Sophia to Belgrade--Split (now there is a direct train between Belgrade and Split so she does not need to change trains in Zagreb croatia) In Split she can then take a bus to Dubrovnik. Or she can fly from Belgrade straight to Dubrovnik. Now that we are in season, they have daily flights.

But anyway, you do not need to stress out as this way she may just see a little bit more of Europe she planned to. Everything here is really nice right now in August, and all this area including Sophia is very safe. I'm sure she will have a great time on Croatian coast.Wishing you best of luck anyway.

Thank you Leonice

She arrived in Sophia and then caught a train to Nis very smelly hot train with bad toilet facilities and tired but you were correct the scenery was stunning.
she is now on a bus to Herceg Novi and will then catch the bus to Dubrovnik. But at least when she gets there she is in a 5* on the beach so she will be okay, the morale of the story is not to travel from Santorini to Dubrovnik in 3 days but at least she will now have 2 week exploring the Croatian coast.

I thank you so much for looking and answering it is great having access to the Lonely Planet forum.

I think she will plan her next trips very carefully before setting off next time, but a 21 they know it all or at least they think they do.

Kind regards

Florent2311, I mean this in the nicest way so don't take offense. it is your daughter's trip, not yours. Let her stress if necessary for herself. At 21, Mum should not be still trying to hold her hand. If she is in such constant contact with you that you know every detail of every day like this, "She arrived in Sophia and then caught a train to Nis very smelly hot train with bad toilet facilities and tired but you were correct the scenery was stunning."
she is relying too much on your support or you are trying to be too involved. Time to cut the strings and push her out of the nest. She can fly on her own whether she or you realize it or not.

When I was 21 - long, long ago - I went off (from England) to spend a year on a kibbutz in Israel. In those days overseas telephone calls were rare and expensive. The kibbutz had one telephone, a pay phone, and of course cell phones were unimaginable. In that year I didn't speak to my parents once, and thought nothing of it because that's how it was then. I wouldn't have expected a phone call from them for anything less than a death in the family. I learnt how to solve my own problems because I had no choice. It wasn't nonstop fun all the time, far from it, but I grew up. It's time your daughter did the same.

The best parts of a trip are the unplanned things. They don't necessarily seem wonderful at the time, but they provide the best memories in years to come. Mummy, let go. She'll be fine.

Funny Shuyffaluff, on my first major venture away from home I was headed for a kibbutz but my plan got de-railed by the Yom Kippur war! I was in Italy ready to move on to Israel when someone showed me the newspaper headline which basically read, 'War in Israel'. So my plans changed.!

I know all about not being in touch with home for long periods and how the unplanned often turn out to be the most memorable. But that as they say is another story.

OP,as a Mum I know EXACTLY how you're feeling.

I am only trying to help out with her route that they haven't planned very well, I fully understand that she must fly the nest but some people are less independent than others.

I do realise that she will grow and have to face challenges but we have access to all various types of communication so why would I not help where I can, and to be perfectly honest I would not like to go back to the old days you talk about without internet and mobile phones.

I am new to LP and all I wanted was a answer to a question I asked not a lesson on my parentage, I have noticed posts from yourself before and you are very sarcastic with your answers and seem to spend every waking hour answering and often criticising other posters.

I feel now I can't ask another question about her trip that I wanted to I will find out another way but to be fair this is what this forum is all about for people like myself to ask questions about travel.

I will not apologise for being a caring mum. You are prob not a father or mother so you have had a parental bypass

Thankyou Westwood for your kind comment

Edited by: Florent3311

*Sofia typo

Sophia? Where's that then?
Several indirect budget airlines could have got her there cleaner and quicker.

Cheers for that Phlorent3311 :-)