Hotel Keti Durres
Kfor Durres, Albania
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Fixpunkt Durres erreicht
... haben uns schon lange gewundert, wie viele Autos mi Schweizer Kennzeichen in Albanien unterwegs sind.Von den 80 Autos auf dem Parkplatz haben 41 ein CH-Kennzeichen, andere Ausländer gibt es kaum. Und nur die grössten Modelle von Mercedes, BMW und Audis. Mit einigen Albanien-Schweizern kommen wir in Kontakt, alle sind sehr jung.
Nach dieser Einfahrt nach Durres haben wir genug vom albanischen Verkehr und ordern für den nächsten Tag ein Taxi bis zur Grenze nach Monte Negro.
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Turning Back The Clock Albanian Style.
... beginning to be painted. Some tenants have painted the outside walls from their window and the coloured paint only reaches as far as their paint roller can reach!.
Albanian ways are a little strange to us. They nod their heads up and down for no and shake backwards and forwards for yes. They are very friendly and are amazed we have come all the way from Australia to visit their country. This tour is a fairly new one and relationships of where to stop for snacks ...
Episode 22
... and bars that you would see in most SE Asian countries. Even the few boats on the river had an Asian look about them. The rain was tipping down, the wind blowing a gale and the surf thundering on the beach. We didn’t stay very long.
Still tipping with rain when we crossed the border into Albania: If we thought some of the former Yugoslav states were a bit 3rd worldish then Albania certainly is: I think even China would have ...
Nothing to Balk(an) At!
... like I was in another world.
Albania has a really interesting history. Part of ancient Greece, then part of ancient Rome, then part of the Ottoman Empire, then they had a king of their own by the name of Zog (I couldn't make that up if I tried!), then they were part of Italy, then they were controlled by the Nazis, then they were independent but associated with the Soviet Union, then China, then nobody. During the Cold War, they had a ...
Life in flip flops
I am now in Tirana the lovely bustling capital city of Albania, i think its Tuesday but its very difficult to tell as the streets are packed and the coffee shops full my kind of city.
First however i wanted to mention something about athens first it gets a bad rap, i dont know why but it does.
Second theres quite the informal economy going on there by what i'm assuming as to be illegal immigrants ...


