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Travel Blogs from Berat, Albania
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Bumper Cars, Berat, Albania
... the "bus stop" to wait for our bus to Berat, via Elbasan. There does not seem to be any such thing as a bus station in Albania, you just ask someone where the buses stop, he asks his mate, and they direct you to somewhere where the bus will pass by. ...
We're definitely "travelling" now!
... Albania. What can we say? It’s been a mad few days! Perhaps the biggest hurdle to travelling around Albania is that there seem to be neither bus timetables nor, more annoyingly, bus stations. It makes locating the right bus at the ...
Favourite photo of the trip so far...
... outside! Irritation of the day: Other travellers who give us a bad name. Let me explain. We were looking for a restaurant, which in Albania can often prove to be a bit difficult. If you are looking for a coffee shop/bar then you only need to walk for ...
Hot, damn hot!
... public around). We spoke for pretty much the whole two hours of the trip which was fascinating to get a gen Y's perspective of Albania. She has two university degrees, but is having trouble getting a 'proper' job. In some ways it's pretty similar to ...
Town of a Thousand Windows
... ich zu einem Ausflug nach Berat genutzt, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Die Kommunisten haben zwei Staedte, Berat und Girokastrja, zu Museumsstaedten deklariert und diese nicht zerstoert. Beide stellen heute grossartige Ensembles ottomanischer Architektur ...
Where the cars have no horns
Had to leave the capitol. The traffic in Tirana was insane and people used their car horns liberally at 4am. This was the city where I saw an 8 year-old boys smoking just outside their elementary ...
A pleasant surprise. If only I had more time!
... into the schedule, I owuld certainly have stayed overnight. Berat is a beautiful little town, and certainly my favourite place in Albania. Upon arrival, I had another cup of coffee and once again dumped my bag in the cafe, then set out to explore. ...
Moving southwards
... unlike most other population centers, it managed to retain most of its religious buildings in the atheistic purges of Albania's Islamic and Christian heritage. It also has preserved a very significant number of Ottoman-period houses across its attractive ...
The Town of A Thousand Windows
... echoes up and down the street. I see few other women and none alone, but I feel safe. Every man I have met so far in Albania has been exceedingly polite, kind, and friendly. Were that all men on my travels could be this way. Of course, I am an oddity and ...
Day 289 - A Mind Divided
I don't often talk about my finances for this adventure, but they’re always in the back of my mind. It’s been almost ten months on the road, and I’ve been from Bangkok to Berlin, spanning oceans, mountains and continents. Most of ...
'Working' In Berat
Berat, Albania, is a small town in the center of the country. Albania is funny because it was shut off from the world for so long during communism, and they are slowly rebuilding themselves and exploring being part of the greater world. This sounds ...
Albanian Transport
An entry probably mostly of interest to people actually wanting to get around Albania: We ventured from Gjirokaster to Berat today, a trip of about 4 hours by bus. It was a surprisingly pleasant journey. I was a bit wary of the logistics of getting around ...
Like a Berat out of hell
... century Iconic painter, but I don't want to go all Bill Bryson on you and give you the boring details....... Still, as Albania is such a secular society and that it is the only country that has successfully enforced Atheism, it was impressive that things ...
Welcome to the Balkan's
What a journey! What was supposed to take a car 3 hours from Monodendri (Greece) to Berat (Albania), took us 10 hours! Our day begun by trying our luck at hitch-hiking 40km's to the nearest large town to which we could get a bus to the border. We were ...
Berat takes us by storm
... in Kala we also visited the Onufri Museum, which is housed in a restored church and consists of Christian religious art from Berat's history. Sheila astutely observed that many of the paintings were from the late-18th and early-19th century, but the style ...
pleasantly surprised by Berat
... Malvina walked me to the center and put me on a furghon (mini-bus) headed towards Tirana. I had been nervous to travel in Albania, after reading that there aren't any bus or furghon schedules, and that it can be a bit crazy and confusing, but this trip ...
Brittany Spears and Albanian conversations
... /fortress and the old town area on a hill above town. We also visited the Onufri museum. Onufri, Albania's most famous artist, mostly painted icons and other religious paintings. Many of his paintings were originally displayed in ...
June 21, 22: Nation of Bunkers
The day after Tirana, I went to Berat, where things are much better. This small city is surrounded by mountains, has a well-preserved old town which is divided into a Muslim section and a Christian section by a muddy river, but they look similar: the ...
ALBANIA -2nd part
... a good travel, interesting and it allowed me to add a lot of new places and friends along the tour: Trieste, Istria, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania, totally 3,500 km by car and 1.100 euro of cost in 22 days (but I was free guest at home of relatives and ...
Berat
... ganz versteckt den steilen Eingang zur Burgzisterne. Unheimlich! Noch vor dem Abendessen machen wir einen Rundgang durch Berat und besuchen die uralte Steinbrücke nach Gorica. Sie strahlt in der Abendsonne! Hasch entführt mich in eine Bar ...
Die Stadt der tausend Fenster
... wird... Der Furgonfahrer fuhr wie der letzte Henker, so dass ich die ganze Fahrt ueber keine ruhige Sekunde hatte. In Berat traf ich gleich zwei Daeninnen, mit denen ich bereits in Tirana einen Abend verbracht habe. Ich schloss mich kurzerhand ihnen ...
Bandscheibe? Ischias?
Wir werden wohl noch einen Tag in Berat bleiben ( müssen). Hasch hat in der Früh noch die neuen Fotos auf den Labtop überspielt, bekam dann Rückenschmerzen und plötzlich konnte er nicht mehr aufstehen. Mit Ach und Krach hat er sich ins Bett ...
Being serenaded by older men :)
... has a long tradition of wine production that dates back to the early 1900's. When a communist government was established in Albania in 1945, this family tradition ceased to exist as private enterprises were not allowed under the new regime. ...
sisemaale
Pärast hommikusööki saadame Davidi teele lennujaama suunas ja võtame ise sihikule Berati. Kuuldavasti on tegu Albaania kõige ilusama linnaga. Päike paistab ja ilm on ilus. Durresist õige otsa peale saamisega on pisut tegemist, esialgu satume ...
Albani-ee-yeah
... for free and I can see why they foam at the mouth when they see a gold old aussie beach. Yesterday I left Budva for Tirana, Albania. This took about 6 hours and three different buses but I met a nice Aussie who helped pass the time. We were both in the ...
Out & About the Ruins, The Bunkers & The Turkeys
... middle of the summer beach season. Durres is a large port town and was once the largest port on the Adriatic and during Albania's struggle for independence, this port town led a fierce resistance and the men who died are regarded as martyrs and the first ...
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