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Hotel Ylli Detit Durres

Shkembi Kavajes Durres, 110013, Albania

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Albania is an odd place

A travel blog entry by teamjames

2

... plenty of trash dumped in odd places together with a bug oil spill. The countryside is beautiful, but apparently riddled with mines and other traps from years of being paranoid of invasion (for which they also built 700,000 bunkers ready to defend the country). Temperature still early to mid 30's with no clouds. Starting to get used to the temp. Stayed in a nice resort type thing in ...

Episode 22

A travel blog entry by overlandlyn2010

5

... 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 ...

All work and no play

A travel blog entry by foodnut

31

... jobs, as the education necessary for higher level work was out of most women's reach.”

Hoxha's governance was also distinguished by his encouragement of a high birthrate policy. For instance a woman that would give birth to an above-average amount children would be given the government award of Heroine Mother (in Albanian: Nėnė Heroinė) along with cash rewards. Abortion ...

The bumpiest ride EVER!

A travel blog entry by molz123

... its terrible really and bizarre to witness.

Tirana itself is so wacky - to spice up the drab communist unifrom architecture of the city the mayor (who everyone loves in this city) has been to schools, had kids draw stuff and then transferred it onto the buildings - the result is this hotchpotch of random colours and designs all over the apartments - its really odd

Apparently it has the best nightlife of all the ...

The hunt for Albanian lager

A travel blog entry by englishanddrunk

... by several random coffee stops along the way- exactly how much coffee you need between two and five in the morning is a mystery to me. I was starting to regret not doing an overnight pub-crawl, having a beer every time we stopped, I would have been wankered. Tirana seems to lack an actual bus station- so buses from Kosovo just tend to park behind the museum and disgorge their passengers there. So, at 5am I found myself alone on ...