So, from Austria to the USA, here is:. The busking is well worth it too. Berat and Shkoder in particular are pleasant and profitable places to eke out a living. Armenians love their live music β in fact I moved there for a few months to join a Celtic folk band in Vanadzor and Gyumri are both worth a punt as well.
Vienna and Salzburg are both excellent places to busk. They love their Sound of Music there. Cracking place though. I did try bribing them on the advice I received from the hostel owners but sadly that just seemed to get them even more angry.
Good money here. Ghent, Antwerp and Leuven are all pretty decent too, although the latter is a university town and a bit dead during uni holidays. Nuff said. A fine country to busk in, is Bosnia. Sarajevo is unusually good for a big city, particularly in the old town.
I was stopped by the police a few times, but on one of these occasions, it was purely so he could tell me the shift patterns of his boss, who was apparently rather intolerant of the muscial underclass.
So that was nice. Head for Mostar too β though be careful not to edge into the territory of the locals who make a lviving by jumping off the bridge into the river and charging people money to watch. I spent a fair while travelling around Bulgaria β the slightly smaller towns in particular are excellent places to busk I had a great deal of joy in Gabrovo and Smolyan in particular.
