Hotel Butrinti Sarande

... why I wasn't taking video sooner I'll never know. But I am now. However, I have to pay $0.60/minute for internet so I will probably wait to upload all the photos until the end of the trip when I'm at a regular internet place.

Hope you all are also having a fabulous and relaxing week. And if you're not, take a deep breath and remember, "We're all going to the same place. We're going to get there. Just relax." I'm hoping that was calming and not just morbid. :)

... on a chair no sleep with so many weird looking passengers seriously it was like the waiting room for hell.

So we tried and tried to get sleep but the crossing was terrible the boat was up and down and up and down. Just as I thought I was going to sleep this man came stumbling into the room with a cigarette and a cheap bottle of cider looking for his wife shouting her name when he found her he hit her over the head with the bottle and said some random things to ...

... I ordered about 4 meze each there was so much yummy food we had local sausage, cheese pies, saganaki of course, meatballs, fried shrimps and salad, tziki, break and wine all for 30 euro. We then went for a walk to the Listern its a street made of marble and all bars with seating along it where the people who want to be seen go so we sat there and watched the people walking past all glamourous ladys in amazing shoes and clothes its a cool place Corfu town.

... Brian is not talking to me at all not that I am ***** Ian keep singing the Artic Monkeys song Brian top marks for not trying....so thats making me laugh. He said he works 20 hours a day but all I ever see him doing is sitting around watching the TV. The place could be so lovely if someone just was ***** to give it a brush around and a good bleaching because its in the most amazing spot. Next door is a five star hotel with a swimming pool all ...

... the hostel which was down a really steep cliff no way of getting back up to the village apart from walking so I dont think I will be seeing much of the island! Although the view down to the sea and the little fishing harbour is amazing we sat why Brian went off to find us a room. This is when all the fun started the place is like a run down hovel they have a swimming pool which is not finished with old toys and ...

Just a quick note. Spent a fabulous day on Corfu. This is what you think of when you think of Greece. We rented motor bikes and crusied the island. I will update more when we get back to Rome on Tuesday.

Love to all,
Davo and Janet

... minute and explain the Albanian evening promenade - information coming from various PCVs. It's the big social activity in every town outside Tirana to put on your best and walk up and down either a boardwalk or a particular street for a few hours after dark. Boys mostly stick with boys and girls with girls, even older married men and women often split up. And even though premarital sex is pretty taboo outside Tirana, 'putting on their best' for many girls means ...

... big mass. There was an interesting variety of designs in the buildings, yet all the construction materials were similar, so the place had quite an oss feel to it. The castle might have been interesting had it been open at that time of the morning, but no luck there. I didn't feel like I had missed much when I jumped on to my next bus at 10.

... enthusiastic developer. Tracks lead off the road at right angles, many of which were unmarked or not signposted. We knew our villa was up one of these but didn't know which one. Michelle sat with the luggage in the shade of a tree while I went scooting off up tracks looking for our accommodation. More than once I ended up in someone's front garden and I smiled at the inhabitants genially as I attempted a several pointed turn on the steep gradients of their drives. I ...

We checked out of our nice little hotel in Corfu, and caught a taxi to the port. There we boarded a day ferry to take us to Sarande, Albania. This was especially exciting for me, as I had never been to Albania.

We arrived, and 'walked' to a nearby hotel. It seemed empty, but was in excellent condition, and very clean. There was a darling little old man that greeted us, and checked us in. The room cost $30.00 a nite. (SCORE~!) The ...