Shkodra

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Thursday 30 ...

... to find the fabled 3pm minibus to shkodra in Albania. Luckily a kid came up to me asking if I wanted a taxi and when I mentioned shkodra he brought me over to his friend who said he would take us for £5, much better than the 30 euro the taxis were ...

... though and I saw lots of horses gamely pulling carts laden down with tethered calves or untethered herds of children.  Breakfast in Shkodra is a very sociable affair as long as you are male.  The whole morning in the city I only saw four ...

Just a short remark about the way to Shkodra: since there are no direct busses from Podgorica in Montenegro and Shkodra in Albania (as I thought), I shared two taxi rides with a couple that I have met at the bus station. The second driver is so funny - ...

As the bus pulled up to the main square of Shkodra, a small city in northern Albania, the bus driver pointed to a bus on the other side of the square and said "Tirana".  We boarded that bus and waited.  And waited.  And waited.  About ...

We arrived in Shokdra and set out to look for a room (these kind of hotels and hostels don't have advance booking by email). Or first attempt was at the concrete high rise hotel Rozafa, where it turned out that the communism-isn't-dead theme did not end ...

... up points for people desiring egress from this muddy sprawl?  I paid my $3 for the hour and a half ride to Shkodra and was praying that a Furgon would magically appear there to carry me across the border into Ulcinj, Montenegro.  A ...