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A woman recalls easy, cheap train travel from Sofia to Athens 20 years ago; now, post-pandemic trains don’t run.

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Biliana recalled taking a fast train from Sofia to Athens twenty years ago when she was a student, noting it was convenient and cheap. She recently tried to bring her son to Bulgaria by train from the Greek capital but discovered that trains no longer run after the coronavirus pandemic.

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