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Rantaelämää Albaniassa
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Durrës on hieman yli 100.000 asukkaan pieni kaupunki, mutta jossa on kuitenkin suhteellisen vilkas satama. Durrësista kulkee myös matkustajalaivoja Italiaan. Durrësin turistit olivatkin pääasiassa joko albanialaisia, kosovolaisia tai italialaisia. Niin ja tietenkin kaksi suomalaista. Olimme tyytyväisiä Durrësin pienuuteen ja rauhallisuuteen Tiranan vilskeen jälkeen. Rannat Durrësissa eivät ole mitään superkauniita tai joka puolelta edes kovin puhtaita, mutta ...
Episode 22
... s. By this time we were scrabbling over very slippery limestone, moss covered rocks, the track appeared to disappear into the stream itself and it was getting late so we gave up on that idea and returned to the car before it got dark. It’s now getting dark around 4.30pm since the clocks went back an hour at the end of October. After looking at the GPS I have decided that this country should really be in the same time zone as Greece, an hour ahead ...
Nothing to Balk(an) At!
... best part of the blogging experience has definitely been all the feedback that I've received through the comments, the personal emails, etc. Without that, the entire exercise could begin to feel like literally speaking to a brick wall. So, thanks for that! Anyway, what follows is a brief account of my trip through the Balkans in southeastern Europe. I wish that I could write more, and one day I will, but for now this will have to do. After this, I'll do ...
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 ...
The hunt for Albanian lager
... of Tirana, the other passengers having all vanished to their homes and hotels within minutes of arriving. Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to check whereabouts the buses to Macedonia left from, so that I'd know my way there when I had to pick one up that evening. Lonely Planet, the fountain of knowledge, said they left "from the patch of mud in front of the train station" so I walked up Bul Zogu (round the corner from where ...