[quote=idlehands]
Haha typical Serbian, that was great. Did the flashlight guy say, "Mi scusi."? Wonderful stories, travel is so eye opening and those sorta scary adventures are always more fun recalled than lived through. 
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No. Just stared with dead eyes, looking for sleeping people to steal from and/or murder. c: I reckon he was looking for unlocked carriages to nick stuff from; I remember talking to the travel nurse when I got my Hep A jab and he was talking about some guy he knew who'd gone on the trans-Siberian railway and had literally everything he had with him stolen on the first night. They keep an eye out for rich young clueless middle-class travellers like us. 
I genuinely wasn't scared at any point; I think my friends were. They made several comments along the lines of "this isn't nearly as third-world as I thought", but thing is they were only half-joking. They originally said they wouldn't go out past dark in Sofia. Either way, yes, I am much enlightened and enrichened for my travels.