encore une fois bonjour... il pleut encore mais il fait moins froid... hier soir je suis retourne au festival des musiques populaires... c'etait meilleur que la veille, moins amateur et une audience plus adulte...j'etais en jeans, t-shirt et coupe-vent... cependant a mon arrivee, comme je n'ai probablement pas l'air ou n'ai pas les attitudes d'u...

bonjour tout le monde... mon sejour ici est rafraichissant, pas tant par la pluie qui s'en ve et revient mais a cause des conversations interessantes et du festival culturel... hier soir je suis alle ecouter des chansons polyphoniques- genre musique corse- et voir quelques danses folkloriques... la region ici est tres influencee par la culture g...

bonjour tout le monde...apres une bien courte nuit car l'autobus partait a 6 heures, j'ai reussi a m'y rendre sans avoir de bleus nulle part... amelioration...le voyage se faisait dans les montagnes, dans des petites routes tournoyantes a l'extreme... pas de place pour rencontrer, pas de garde-fous, plein de monde autour de moi qui etaient malad...

Driving inland towards Greece, we passed the 'Blue Eye Spring', a natural blue spring of unknown depth which looks like the iris of an eye, which pumps out water at an unbelievable rate. Another top picnic spot, and then on to Gjirokastra for a wander, a spooky, dark looking slate grey village perched on a hill (not unlike a set from a vampire m...

The next morning I wasn't able to find the right bike tubes and hoping for the best I planned to continue on the coast towards Dhermi. As I was leaving the city I began to put together a picture of the road through my frequent questioning of by passers along the way. It seemed like the road, about 60 Km worth, was now being torn up and was basic...

Our latest field trip was to Albania. We went there because of one of our classes--Greek/Albanian Relations. For the class we have to write a 10 page paper about relations today, and we were supposed to talk to people in Greece about how they feel about Albanians and why they feel that way. After asking a few people, we quickly realized that Gre...

The road to Gjirokastra was filled with many wonderful people: three men at the Bertai bus station who helped me figure out how to get to Gjirokastra when it became obvious the 9:30 bus was no longer in existence, two university students who translated directions for me and made sure I made the right connections, and two guys who argued with a t...

Early the next morning I walked out to see the bridge in Berat, and then caught a 9:30 AM bus south to Gjirokaster. The day before Katie had arranged for me to sleep with Margaret, a PCV there. Well it was very unfortunate the bus left so late (it was the only one) because the trip was miserable. Katie had told me to try to get a seat in the fir...

Lord of the Rings + rain = big. There were some very pleasant people here. See Issue 23 for more

From the North Greece I went into Albania. A taxidriver took me to Gjirokaster.