Dajti Park Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tirana
Tirana Day #1
... the Turks and is considered the national hero of Albania.
As the sun set over Tirana, Mom and I walked back to our hotel, stopping in an optical shop. Mom gave me her large eyeglasses case to replace the sunglasses case I lost earlier today. I then bought Mom a smaller case for her eyeglasses. That problem resolved, we got to the Best Western Nov at 7:07.
Mom and I headed out to dinner at ...
Shit everywhere!!!!
... was really friendly and curious about us and watched us for pretty much all our workout. The gym was empty as it was early morning, which was lucky as the gym could barely fit our 2 bodies inside it.
Both of us had been quite surprised at the quality of the men over here, which is even more impressive considering our very different tastes. Now I have completed the trip and am writing this entry in hindsight (im a ...
The Pyramid
... and slimy from the grease used to keep them lubricated.
After our workout we headed into town to do some sightseeing. Tirana is a nice sized city, not too big so it is easy to traverse by foot. We aimlessly ambled round, not really looking for anything in particular, though we did come across a rather unusual looking pyramid structure which was a disco at one stage, though had since been abandoned and was falling into disrepair. Seemed such a shame, as ...
Albanian madness!
... oil, and there was only the bikers and atilla behind us from the campsite. Atilla had nothing in his car that could help us, but Gulf, on of the Dutch guys was fantastic. he jumped on his bike and drove almost an hour to the next town to buy oil for us. while he was gone we sat and waited. A farmer with a flock of sheep came over to give us honey and say hi. We gave him a packet of cigarettes and off he went. A short while later a truck came past with 3 Albanians in ...
Tirana Albania
... about money, how cheap this is or how cheap this place is. I don’t think I want to become like that but we did have dinner last night for 8 Euros and included 2 bottles of Coke, 1 water and 2 giant open kebabs. Today we had more sandwich style kebabs for 1 Euro each.
We are going to Ohrid in Macedonia tomorrow and we just had a big discussion about it with a really nice girl from our hostel and she says it is absolutely beautiful, so we are very excited ...