Day 50 of The Long Ride to Byzantium
BUCHAREST 🇷🇴 ➡️ RUSE 🇧🇬 (74 km)
First ride after the accident — and what a day. After some recovery days in Bucharest, the maddest city I’ve ever seen (endless traffic jams, brutalist chaos, and strangely kind people), it was time to move again.
Cold headwinds followed me the whole way toward the Bulgarian border, cycling across the endless autumn plains — grey, quiet, and hauntingly beautiful. You can’t always have summer — sometimes you just have to embrace the melancholy.
Crossing the incredible Friendship Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria was a special moment. The feeling of rolling into a new country never gets old.
My welcome to Bulgaria? Straight into an eerie industrial wasteland outside Ruse 😅 — spooky, but fine.
Now exploring Bulgaria with no rush toward Istanbul. Tomorrow: the rock-hewn churches of Ivanovo, another UNESCO gem. If you’ve got tips or places I shouldn’t miss, drop them in the comments.
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Peeps, I survived and it’s time to leave Bucharest. So yeah, use a helmet. Leave Bucharest now. See this beautiful Orthodox church and the place is mad. Bookucharist is mad. So, thank you for still being with me and for watching this crazy YouTube channel on this trip. As you can see, I got a new helmet. Pretty nice, huh? And yeah, continuing as always after this big blow, the accident last time. Thank God. Thank heavens and the universe. So, Saturday ride 70k to Ruse. May the cycling gods be with me, peeps. And just cycling through the Armenian quarters here in Bucharest, which is beautiful, actually, but also crazy. This place is mad. Romania. This is like a toxic romantic relationship. So much cars. The people are lovely and the country is beautiful, but maybe we’re not completely compatible. Look at this buildings, baby. Thank you once again so much after this madness. And let’s see how this goes and when I’m in Istanbul. So, thank you peeps. ammonium into something. Oh, beeps getting out of vicarous kind of chill. It’s crazy traffic. So, looking forward to getting out of here. Great day in Booker, I got to tell you. Thank you for watching, peeps. Episode 50. Gray brutal is blocked. The real Bucharest kind of procession going on here. That’s why the traffic jam. No idea what it’s possession for funeral or something. [Music] Oh my gosh, it’s such a Back in the day, you plane peeps on this era. Crazy as always, but that baby [Music] [Music] Going for a lovely break here on the picnic table by the red thieves. It’s playing nice city. Someone dropped some chocolate here. [Music] Lovely day. Just don’t drop chocolate on the road. Peeps, please eat it. [Music] Mmentoto mori, peeps. [Music] Beautiful landscape. [Music] My old friend, the sun. Hello there. It’s been a while. Nice to see the sun after a while, peeps. This crazy storm. There was a bird of Valkans, you know. Nice ride. Evening ride here to Bulgaria. Shut the front door. Look at the name of this place. Harry Potter fans out there. Birth place are famous. Famous in Romania. Soon at the border. Made it to Bulgaria. Peeps. Survived Romania. The craziest country in Europe. Let’s see how Bulgaria is. Hopefully not crazier. Straight up. Look at that, babe. This is really exciting, peeps. The French bridge built by the re in the 50s. It’s amazing. Wow. Look at that, baby. And here’s my old friend crossing to Bulgaria Spirit Peeps. Yeah. Continuing to Russia. A beautiful view. Here’s the border, peeps. And there’s a queue here in the middle of the border. Romania over there, peeps. Daily. So, I’m in Bulgarian Air officially. Peeps. It’s crazy narrow the bridge. So, they got to go and turns the peeps. It’s insane. The French bridge built with the reads. Look at that baby. That was it peeps. Episode 50. I have no idea how long I will be here waiting in the queue. So, tomorrow I think I’ll go to Tanovo in Bulgaria after exploring Rouset. But yeah, thank you so much for watching and subscribing on the long ride to Bentum. Entering Bisantine territory now, Bulgaria. So yeah, let’s see how this goes. That’s a queue. May God be with us on this road. Pedal or perish. This is it, babes. Bulgaria. Happy to be in a Slavic country again. Got to tell you. Welcome to Bulgaria, peeps. I thought that was the end of the episode, but now I’m cycling through this industrial wasteland in Russia. It feels like going back to the Soviet Union, thieves. It’s pretty spooky. Look at these tubes, baby. Long live the Bulgarian Socialist Republic. It’s crazy. No idea what’s going on here. Back in the USSR. Not too bad, right? [Music]