Sheraton Tirana Hotel And Towers

... kleiden sich sehr westlich, man sieht we***** Kopftuech** als in Deutschland. Und alle 100m gibt es ein Casino.

Morgen geht es dann weit** gen Norden, sollte morgen Montenegro **reichen. Liege ganz gut in d** Zeit, kann v**mutlich einige Staedte an d** Kueste besichtigen, Inshallah.

Gruss
Ralf

P.S.
Dachte d** Pauschaltourismus ist noch nicht hi** angekommen, ab** im Nationalmuseum lief doch glatt eine deutsche Reisegruppe h**um.

... Stempel in meinem Pass, entweder von der Ausreise aus Mazedonien oder von der Einreise in den Kosovo, ist so schwer zu entziffern.

Die Strasse auf der Albanischen Seite war erstaunlich gut, teilweise bereits ausgebaute vierspurige Autobahn, teilweise noch im Bau. Wo das Geld wohl herkommt? Ich nehme an, aus der Tuerkei.

Gruss
Ralf

... didn't make it far before the rain came back and we had to shelter at a cafe and drink extremely small, extremely strong Albanian coffees.

I have liked Albania because it is more like Morocco and South America than it is Europe - a little wilder and rougher around the edges. Western Europe is wonderful, but it has a certain predictability to it, and Albania is definitely devoid of that. As we explored the city, we saw more and more of this, from the ...

... I thanked him for his advise and got back on the bus. I promptly spent the best part of half an hour gazing out of the window in horror. The roads were little more than dirt tracks, with no markings or lighting, each corner was a ninty degree swerve inches away from a cliff edge- on more than one occasion I genuinely thought we were going over the edge. The RAC wouldn't approve of this. I drifted off to sleep for a few hours ...

... na tym wyjezdzie - rozbilismy namiot. Cale szczescie, bo w nocy padalo. No i czulismy sie bezpieczniej... ENGLISH: From Ohrid we took a bus to the Albanian boarder (110 Denars=2 Euros/2 people) and we walked through both of the boarders. Firstly though we had to wait at the bus station for an hour, because Bogna-the-very-clever-one didn`t realize that when crossing the Greek-Macedonian boarder, we`d changed the time zone and for almost 3 days we had ...

... there was plenty of room for little old me. The hostel is run by a young crew and with a bar downstairs has a really relaxed vibe. With a shower and a change of clothes I was starting to feel quite at home. When you are staying in hostel dorms it's always a bit of a lottery was to the type of people you will be bunking down with, it can be hit or miss. While smoking a cigarette out on the balcony I acquainted myself with my two roommates, Lisa a young girl from Manchester, and Gregg ...

... knowing we were in for quite an experience. We left Kotor, Montenegro behind and took a bus 2 hours north to the captial, where we hoped it would be easier to cross the border. From there, we checked with both the bus and train station one last time, each of which verified that there was no means of transportation to enter albania. Our only option was to do it by foot. We hired a taxi for $25 Euro , which drove us right up to border control and then let us off ...

... night out- basically a big kebab wrapped in flat breads, with chips inside too! Looked good but couldnt have eaten anything hot. Hopefully will get one before I go. Last night (i,e, myfirst night) I'd managed to break my maglite (not so good as the electricity is v.sporadic) so went to a market stall and found a rechargable torch- you plug it straight into the wall! V.handy as we normally have electricity in the day, but seems to last a long time anyway. We just missed the bus, so sat in ...

... hang out, and closed to the public until 91, it now sits in stark contrast to the rest of the city. Everything seems sparkling and clean, trees line the streets and trendy cafes are everywhere. It could be in any modern capital in Europe, yet walk for one minute and you're back in the poverty the rest of Tirana enjoys. The weirdest thing about Tirana? Everyone drives expensive cars here. About 3/4 of the cars you see are either BMW, Audi, VW or Mercedes; 1/2 of that number (at least ...