We are planning to travel van Bar to Belgrade to Sofia to Istanbul around the half/end of July, but are trying to figure out the Belgrade - Sofia leg of the Journey. I came across some mentions here (including the site of the man in seat 61) stating that traffic between Belgrade and Sofia is still suspended.
However, if I have a look at several sites (Serbian railways, rome2rio, railcc, etc.) I'm given an option from Belgrade to Nis, (after a long stopover) Nis to Dimitrovgrad and Dimitrovgrad to Sofia.
Does anyone know what the current status of this connection is, where I might be able to check it, and if there are other possibities in case the service is not availble?
Thank you for your help
Belgrade - Budapest can be done with several changes and a short Bus replacement on the route takes even 1 or 2 days :/