VIlla Tafaj Tirana

... 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

... it really sucked. I knew what I was letting myself in for really but it just reminded me of some of the people I had to deal with when I was running a volunteer company just naive silly little girls who shouldn't be away from home and are not mature enough. After dinner we headed for a stroll along the beach and grabbed some breakfast for the morning as I would be missing it having to leave at 7am. The driver dropped me down by the port and was telling me some ...

... square. The mounted statue of the great Albanian hero stood on a large patch of grass while the outskirts of the square were official looking buildings (one of whose power seemed to cut out as I approached). Skanderbeg fought a great many battles against the Turks during the middle ages, but once he had died, the Turks annexed Albania anyway- in many ways he just wasted his time, yet he is still revered by Albanians of all faiths as ...

... at the end of the journey he wants you to pay twice as much. Bananas cost 1Euro/kg and Marcin had to pay 1 Euro for... just two bananas. Eventually a certain woman helped us out with finding a transportation to the boarder with Montenegro and then she asked us to pay 10 Euros for the "service"... The country itself is beautiful, surrounded by mountains, it has a huge potential. The potential though has never been used. The transit took us all day ...

... a beer I was glad to have my feet fixed firmly back on the ground and to be heading for a bar with a more local flavor. I had been pretty interested to chat to Gregg about his plans to cycle to Australia but he was one of these guys that talk's non stop and doesn't let anyone get a word in. As for Lisa, she was the most boring girl I've ever met in my life and a bit of a disappointment after the Manchester girl's id spent time with in Krakow. When eventually Gregg gave her the ...

... their country! I felt guilty that we weren't staying for longer! The only reason we were so rushed was because Alex had plane tickets out of Corfu, Greece, where we had hotel reservations booked for the following 2 nights. So we somehow had to get down there, though we still had no idea how that would happen. From getting our entry stamps at the border, we got into the car that the officers had arranged with 2 older gentlemen who really spoke no english, had ...

... and started clearing the area. It was really hard work, bending down to scoop up months worth of food wrappers, sweetcorn cobs (sold nearby) and cigarette butts. As soon as that was done, we had to get started on the weeds. Admittedly the Americans had quite a bit of equipment to set up, but they didn't offer to help or even talk to us, I wondered if they thought we were Albanian... seemed a bit hypocritical to me, but c'est la vie. We stopped for a quick drink, then went back over to ...

... car so that they wouldn't get blood on it. Stolen cars are very popular in Tirana, and nice ones can earn someone quite a profit. We were in a new Volvo. They just saw dollar signs. We were lucky as a convoy of other cars started down the road towards us. The police saw them coming and hurridly waved us on. Can't have witnesses, you know. Inside Tirana was interesting. There was a river where the city ...