Hotel Rogner Europapark Tirana

... und von ein** B**gstadt aus den Ottomanen ein kleines Reich abgetrotzt. In 25 Schlachten mit den Ottomanen ging ** als Sieg** h**vor und sein Reich wurde **st 26 Jahre nach seinem Tod von den Ottomanen besiegt (in 1479). Die Alban** sehen sich als Rett** des Abendlandes, waren die Ottomanen doch zu ihr** sta**ksten Zeit in Schlachten mit Skand**b**g beschaeftigt statt die Truppen gen Wien zu schicken.

Albanien macht keinen sehr islamischen Eindruck, die ...

Hallo zusammen

und Gruesse aus Tirana, Albanien, Land Nummer 124:-) Bin um kurz vor 9 in Tirana eingetroffen, die Strasse im Kosovo war schrecklich, der Grenzuebergang ziemlich merkwuerdig, es gibt zwar Kontrollposten, aber niemand hat die Paesse der Passagiere kontrolliert (weder auf der Kosovo noch auf der Albanischen Seite). Habe bisher nur ...

... morning, but that night we were blissfully ignorant of parking in an embassy zone. it wasn't marked!) We spent the rest of the evening sitting out on our covered balcony feeling the intensity of the storm and talking about the greatness of traveling. Sigh.

The next day the weather was decidedly better, so we headed off to explore the city with a guy who didn't leave with the others, Matty. Tirana is not so big, so we set off in the direction of the center ...

... city! Bad people!" "It was the easiest way to get to Kosovo" I replied, hiding my unexplainable love of Serbia (This ethnic hate bollocks annoys me, I've met plenty of Serbs who'd say the same thing about Tirana and the Albanians). The more intelligent Albanian looked at me as people began to get back on the bus. "My friend, do not look out window on bus, if you want sleep, do not look out window. If you do, your stomach will be in your ...

... ogromny potencjal. Ten potencjal jednak nigdy nie zostal wykorzystany. Tranzyt zajal nam caly dzien. Pod wieczor bylismy w trzecim w tym dniu kraju - Czarnogorze. Tam, na granicy, spotkalismy czworke Polakow - studentow medycyny (autostopowiczow jak my), z ktorymi juz stopem dojechalismy do Podgoricy. Z dworca kolejowego w Podgoricy, na ktory nas podwieziono, szlismy pare km. Zrobilo sie juz ciemno, gdy znalezlismy laczke, na ktorej - po raz ...

... wishing each other the best of luck in our different endeavours. We had reached the hostel gates and I must say I was really impressed with the look of the place. The hostel was converted from a huge villa with balconies over looking the surrounding streets and pretty gardens below. With its picturesque setting all that was left for me was to hope that there was a nest free. I wasn't too worried; after all it was Albania how busy could the hostel be? My answer was quite busy but ...

... saying their brand of communism wasn't pure enough. He then became chummy with Moscow, but Hoxha, a hardcore Stalinist, broke with the Soviets in 1961, after refusing Khrushchev's demands for a submarine base in coastal Vlora and refuting many of the new Russia's communist ideals. The country reoriented itself with the People's Republic of China, undergoing its own brutal cultural revolution in 1966 an 1967. However, after Mao's death in 1976, Hoxha declared Chinese communism too ...

... country, we learned that it didn't truely exist. We found online another travelers blog, who wrote of his experiences getting across the border, and going through the exact process we were going to have to do. His information was really the most accurate we could find, as he had only completed that part of his trip a few months ago. So we anxiously followed his footsteps and took the advice of others, hoping that it wasn't going to be as difficult as it sounded ...

... way home before he said 'Oh right, forgot the headlights'. Good start! After Stephen, Matt and I had been to the internet, we went for some Albanian 'fast food'- soo good but Albanians use a lot of oil in their cooking anyway so was a bit greasy! I had a burek, which was basically a cheese pasty with filo pastry but was v.nice. I wasn't really hungry in the 40 degree heat. The boys had another traditional Albanian food, cant remember what it's called, but would have been perfect after a ...

... little better. The buildings are an odd mix. Most are very run down, or (at best) have a brightly painted facade attempting to cover the state of the place and then there are the recent developments. An initiative by the current mayor, these are all very modern designs and brightly painted, and looking very out of place. Oddly, most of the young people walking around seem very well dressed, as out of place as the new buildings. Until you get to Blloku, that is. Once the Communist Party ...