Richard Carriero - "On my journey through Europe, Kosice-scarcely thirty miles from the Ukrainian border-would mark the furthest penetration into the continent and the furthest place from প্রথমপাতা that I have ever yet visited. "
"The train heaves back and forth uncertainly along the track as the Balkan Express lurches from Istanbul toward Bulgaria. I am headed to Plovdiv, the recommended garden spot of Thrace and I know not what to expect."