City Hotel Tirana

... kleiden sich sehr westlich, man sieht we***** Kopftuech** als in Deutschland. Und alle 100m gibt es ein Casino.

Morgen geht es dann weit** gen Norden, sollte morgen Montenegro **reichen. Liege ganz gut in d** Zeit, kann v**mutlich einige Staedte an d** Kueste besichtigen, Inshallah.

Gruss
Ralf

P.S.
Dachte d** Pauschaltourismus ist noch nicht hi** angekommen, ab** im Nationalmuseum lief doch glatt eine deutsche Reisegruppe h**um.

Hallo zusammen

und Gruesse aus Tirana, Albanien, Land Nummer 124:-) Bin um kurz vor 9 in Tirana eingetroffen, die Strasse im Kosovo war schrecklich, der Grenzuebergang ziemlich merkwuerdig, es gibt zwar Kontrollposten, aber niemand hat die Paesse der Passagiere kontrolliert (weder auf der Kosovo noch auf der Albanischen Seite). Habe bisher nur ...

... out no real fuss at all. When I went through immigration I asked for them to stamp the visa on a near complete page and she just stamped right over a existing stamp, sounds good to me as long as they don't take up spare pages just with one stamp I am happy! I managed to jump on a bus that was just leaving for Tirana and managed to grab some food. It is really hard when traveling to buy healthy food all the time, I must of eaten more choc croissants during my trip ...

... I was sitting on. I went over to a nearby bank and managed to get some Albanian lek. Ok, so I wasn't overly tired, I knew where on the map I was and I had some local cash- that's how days should start in foreign cities. By the time I left the bank the city was well and truly alive and Skanderbeg square, with it's poorly defined traffic lanes had become the endless maelstrom of ****** vehicles and Italian-registered Mercedes (all of ...

... still make the effort to include them. I'm somebody who travels on their own the majority of the time so I know how lonely it can get sometimes. When you are traveling the world you're experiencing and witnessing some incredible things and it's wonderful, but every now and then you see or do something that you would love to share with someone else. For me a prime example would be when I went to the Grand Canyon. I was trekking there for a week and it was immense, the sheer size of the ...

Day two of my journey to Romania brings me to Tirana, the capital of Albania. This would have to be the most difficult day of travel I have had. It took me 9 hours, 4 different buses, and I covered only 120 miles! Luckily my friend Lisa who had been living the past year in Albania gave me the lowdown on every single bus change in every little podunk town I came to, which is something you don't get from the Lonely Planet guidebook, largely due to the lack of travel information ...

... up people wanting to go to Tirana. As we climb into the mountains, I meet my fellow travellers: a husband, wife, and baby, and five teenagers with an affinity for Green Day, headed to the capital for a weekend of partying. We swing along windy mountain roads, past numerous gravestones, looking down at sheer drops and gorgeous scenery while singing "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot." Conveniently, I have told them I'm Canadian. At the nice Tirana Backpacker's ...

... someone would get off and someone else would get on, but sometimes, the bus would just stop and sit there, in the middle of the road, for no obvious reason. The furgon business is obviously a competitive one, as our bus driver 'stole' passengers from another smaller furgon, and then we got to watch the two bus drivers duke it out and argue. There was clearly a winner and loser, as the driver of the smaller furgon drove off ******. We arrived in Tirana around ...

... up afterwards. I wanted to help but they wouldnt hear of it. We walked home and there was just about enough water for me to have a shower, which was VERY welcome as I could now rub my arm and get a little collection of dirt. After I'd got ready for bed, the rest of the team arrived tired but excited! Was really good to see them all again. They got settled, we put all the matresses out on the balcony- I reassured them it gets ridiculously hot in the middle of the day- and finally got to sleep.

... she drank a bottle of wine by herself. So after a few beers at the club, she was feeling really good. She and Ed did a little dancing and then she danced with some of the locals. One thing led to another and soon she was outside with one of the locals and Ed. The guy was trying to negotiate prices for a night with Moe! He thought she was a hooker! I will never let Moe forget this one!