Category: All-posts
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Europe’s equivalent of Jordan’s Petra…
Is the Ostrog monastery. Interestingly it comes with a little mystery attached to it in the sense that nobody knows much about who or what built it. That’s quite strange to hear these days right? I had initially accepted this wasn’t going to be a tourist attraction I could visit because the tour price would […]
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Mountainous Montenegro
Myself, the well-travelled Dutch lady and the gentle German giant said our goodbyes to half of the people in yesterday’s group photo as we headed for Montenegro whilst the others headed further north into the Albanian mountains to hike. For those interested in getting to Montenegro from Shkodra read this paragraph otherwise skip it. You will need to […]
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Lake Komani: Scenic bliss in Albania
This is definitely the last post and last day in Albania folks and so to find this ‘scenic bliss’ the team and I had to endure a long, long day. Yes, we could have done this the easy way and paid 33 euros each to have everything worked out for us but as ever, I […]
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An Italian hitman in Tirana!!!
Looks like yesterday’s post won’t be my last in Albania after all. Infact, neither will this one as there will be one more to come showing today’s activity and it won’t be one you’ll want to miss to appreciate scenic nirvana. The first semi-comical, semi-serious email my brother Gino sent me when he heard I was coming […]
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A visit to Albania’s capital: Tirana
Admittedly I was happy to be back in a busy metropolis as you’d have to go back to Italy those weeks ago since I last sampled the heavily polluted city air. Since then its largely been rural villages, castles and vast amounts of walking. I came here then with minimal expectations and as such I […]
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A miserably wet afternoon in Berat
Yes folks finally a less than pleasurable afternoon. That’s a grand total of two single bad experiences in seven weeks of travel so I can’t grumble too much can I. (The first being THAT time in Cyprus of course). So the day started off reasonably bright and sunny enough for us to not feel cold or […]