Theranda Hotel Tirana

Kruja was a short day trip out of Tirana.

There is a well preserved fortress that has now been converted into a museum on Albania history of Skanderberg - a prominent Albania figure in 14th century who lead ...

... 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 ...

... immature and so unknowledgable it was unbelievable. I was taking it all in when I was sat there looking around at everything, it was like I had gone back to school or the first year of university again, as soon as I saw everything I just knew I wouldn't want to do 2 nights. Tom was leaving the next day and also Becky was off in the evening so I knew I wouldn't want to stay there by myself, I just felt I couldn't really have a decent adult conversation with anyone ...

... off the bus) until I reached the train station. I wouldn't say it was a patch of mud, more a small square, but it was very muddy. Nevertheless, there were buses to Macedonia there, it was just a question of finding out when they left (as I mentioned earlier, Albania has no international rail connections, which is why I was torturing myself about buses to a degree normally only Boris Johnson does). I walked back down the street to ...

... 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 ...

... in Stockholm for the last few years and before he returned to start life back in Ireland he decided he would take a few months off and do some traveling. With another person recruited for the few beers the night had the makings of a right little session. Unfortunately the night didn't live up to its early promise. The first bar we went to was one called the Sky Club Panoramic Bar which was a bar atop this tower that rotates. The views of the city are incredible but the rotation ...

... anyone but themselves. I haven't even made it to Bosnia-Herzegovina or Serbia yet, but already it's not difficult to see how war broke out in this region in the 90s. The border between Macedonia and Albania is my first walking border. Many people are mystified by the idea of walking across a border, but really, it's quite common. A bus drops two women and me at the Macedonian check point, where we are stamped out of that country. We then walk probably 700m to the Albanian check ...

... teeth, and looked poor and broken, yet they were laughing it up and happy to escort us into the city. They tried to bond with us by putting on 'american' music, which was a CD that they had of 'top hits'. The funny thing was, neither alex nor me had heard of any of the artists or songs on the album! I wondered who these lost artists from the 80's were! Anyhow, they got us safely into town and drove us right up to a bus which would take us the rest of the way ...

... the concert at 6:40. (advertised to start at 7pm) Took our oh-so-comfy stone seats and waited. And waited. They ended up starting promptly at 8pm, so presumably they'd been told to advertise an hour before they actually had to start. There were loads of kids there though, and kept staring at Matt's dreadlocks, asking if he was a boy or girl- not sure they'd ever seen them before. A couple of girls came and sat next to me, trying to practice their English. One girl, Viola, was my age and ...

... of the blackness. The police car was parked, facing the opposite direction, and just turned on its headlights and flashed its red light. They played good cop/bad cop with the bad cop resting the muzzle of his gun on the window sill of the drivers side while talking to us and the good cop kept trying to get us out of the car so that he could inspect it. I was sure that they just wanted us out of ...