Hotel Bel Conti Durres

... army to various victories against the Turkish empire. <br>On the road from the bus station (stop) there is a street of wooden shops (that ironically looks very turkish and was selling predominantly turkish goods!).

... kleiden sich sehr westlich, man sieht we***** Kopftuech** als in Deutschland. Und alle 100m gibt es ein Casino.<br><br>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.<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf <br><br>P.S.<br>Dachte d** Pauschaltourismus ist noch nicht hi** angekommen, ab** im Nationalmuseum lief doch glatt eine deutsche Reisegruppe h**um.<br>

... we'd heard about were everywhere (there's 700,000 in the country). Like oversized Dr Who Daleks, these were built in the 60's and 70's when Albania broke alliance with the Soviet Union and went solo, and were designed so people could hide in them and survive tank bombardments (go figure!) Our first stop was Kruje, a dusty dirt ride to a hillside town, roads at 45 degree slopes, and ...

... and it at least meant we were at the other end of an e-mail address for the few days we both spent cooped up in our room (although the e-mails we sent reporting on Megs food poisoning might have gotten a few of you worried). In my experience so-called underdeveloped countries are a good place to find open WiFi networks and I will always recall being able to Skype home from a hotel in Tallinn, Estonia thanks to someone's generosity/inability to secure their ...

... with a statues of some national hero on horseback and various 'for-the-people, us-against-them' military statues), poor infrastructure, boring, straight-edged pastel coloured buildings, unfinished construction projects, beat up busses, roads full of old East German Mercedes and an unnecessarily large presence of visibly underfunded law enforcement. · All David's are gents We've already mentioned David, the Albanian who helped us. Meg, the doubter that ...

... several cab drivers, all of whom offered their services. But there was one cab driver who seemed more friendly than the rest and would wait at least 45 minutes for us to eat a nice lunch before traveling to the Montenegro/Albania border. While eating lunch, we ran into several other backpackers including a young oriental woman who just came from Albania. She confirmed our findings that we must take a taxi to the border and then ...

... s "Operation Pelican", a food-aid programme. In 1997, Albania slid into anarchy following the collapse of a massive pyramid scheme which devastated the national economy. An Italian-led peacekeeping force was controversially deployed to Durrës and other Albanian cities to restore order, although there were widespread suggestions that the real purpose of ...

Huh puh. Taalla Tiranassa on hyvin vaikea loytaa mitaan nettipaikkoja, aidin sanoin: joko netti on kaatunut, ketaan ei ole paikalla, sahkokatkos, tai mita tahansa. Mut nyt taa nettipaikka toimii jotenkuten vaikka nappaimisto on sanonko mista.. =P mut olen iloinen ku sentaan voin kirjoittaa pitkan tauon jalkeen jotain :) Niin, laiva saapui varhain aamulla Durresiin. Saimme aikaan todella hienon sotkun, kun olimme edellisena iltana ...

... going on though. Sunday is wedding day. They all pile into cars and drive around town honking the horns and waving hankies! There was even a guy hanging out of the front car videoing the wedding party! After dinner we were walking round town when everyone came out. Passegiato Albanian style. Dressed in their finest, Korça was out on the town! Tomorrow we had to decide whether to walk across the border into Greece or catch a bus to Thessaloniki to get us closer to Istanbul.

... the point of this?" A little delightful surprise is that we shop and prepare our own breakfast and lunch here. I think the cook wanted more money, didn't get it and quit. So, we have the opportunity almost every day to shop in local grocery stores. Some things are very cheap and some very expensive. Glenn, one of the trainers, was boasting that he got a great big cantaloupe for about 500 leke ($5) and he was told that was a great price. We were shopping last ...