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Little Trouble in Big Tirana
... caught the 12:30 bus across the Montenegrin-Albanian to the town of Shkodėr. The border turned out to be one of the easiest border crossings ever, taking less than 10 minutes! Following the swift border, it took another hour or so before we finally arrived in Shkodėr.
The bus dropped us off in a very busy square where dozens of mini-buses were waiting to take us to any number of destinations. After withdrawing some Albanian Leke from a near by cash machine, we ...
Magnetic north
... there a follow this person yadda yadda and I end up… um. Not sure, but there was a music shop! After listening to every Albanian album they had - and buying them I found another little shoppy that had some of the polyphonic stuff I was after. “Add to cart”. The shop owner and I communicated with a mixture of Albanian and English (each of us not speaking a word of the other), sign language and an assist by mobile phone from his ...
First day of touring
... of socks outside for 4 Euros
We found some great bowls there too but didn’t get any. My husband looked at a coffee grinder but passed it and then we saw the same coffee grinders just about everywhere. There was a lot of pushing of “brandy” and “cognac” – locally made – and apparently they think tourists must love to buy booze. Most shops were the same ...
Arrival in Tirana
... the water was safe to drink. It is but we got that from Klodi because the hotel wasn’t sure what we meant.
We head out and it’s pretty cold. I had taken the lining out of my coat and that was a definite mistake. We’re looking for fresh fruit, an ATM, and diet drinks. On this short trip, we didn’t find but a place with tired looking oranges, found many ATM’s and they don’t ...
Eliza Dushku and the Mayor of Tirana!
... so I started showing them photos on my iPhone (they must have thought it very funny for a grown woman to have so many photos of a dog poking its head from under a doona on her phone). Then I thought of my 'Fatbooth' app and started to take photos of people on the bus and then show them their fat selves, much hilarity ensued. Then I showed them how to play 'Cut the Rope' and for the next hour, until they got off (with their two ...