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Notes on Flying Into Albania
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 25 October 2011
At the Bergamo airport outside Milan, and I’m in Albania before I’m in Albania. Waiting at the gate, last flight of the night and it’s delayed—”ritardo,” which sounds like “retarded” and I laugh and take a picture, and get those sideways glances—”Girl, you’re not from here.” And I’m not—one of the only people at the [...]
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Lady in the Balkans
Blog: A Lady in London - 3 October 2011
Most people thought I was crazy to travel to the Balkans by myself. I was lectured on safety, on health, on everything imaginable. But I had been curious about the region for years, not least because the only thing I really knew about it related to the conflicts in the 1990’s. There was surely more [...]
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Lady in Tirana
Blog: A Lady in London - 23 September 2011
I was warned about Tirana. The two English-speakers I met while traveling from Montenegro to Albania told me that it was dangerous. They said that other Europeans considered Tirana a no-go zone, and that the only people stupid enough to visit were Americans and Australians that hadn’t gotten word about Albania’s bad reputation. I knew [...]
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Tirana Took Some Piece of Me, Under Seige And Too Far Away
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 22 January 2011
Sometimes when you travel, a place will steal a piece of you. And sometimes you’ll leave a little piece of yourself in a place—which might be the same thing—some piece of you you hadn’t really known was there, that took the foreign air (smoking chestnuts and car exhaust) to be awakened or realized. And you’re [...]
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Tirana, Albania Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 10 December 2010
This week’s Wish You Were Here post comes from Cynthia of CynthiaOrd.com, Thoughts on Tourism, People and the Earth. Cynthia is fascinated with travel and tourism as an industry and its impacts. She likes to visit unlikely places and see how many people she can convince to go there. Be sure to [...]
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Colourful and Drab.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 16 November 2010
Tirana, Albania. I’ve decided to leave Macedonia and head for a new country – Albania. After some breakfast, I head off to get some money out to pay the hostel and get myself to Albania. Though at the cash machine things don’t go that way – I was expecting some money to be in there [...]
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Experiencing Expat Albania
Blog: GoBackpacking - 8 November 2010
One side effect of staying with ex-pats though is a certain distance from the locals.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Boys, Boys, Boys: A Solo Female Traveler’s Experience With the Men of Southern Italy, Montenegro and Albania
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 26 October 2010
“Southern Italy, eh?” He gave me the raised eyebrow of caution. “Watch out for the men.” This was Alex, his voice lifting above the roar of hair dryers and hip music at the salon, two days before I left on my trip. A lady friend of his, he continued, had recently spent several weeks in [...]
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Tirana, Tirana, The One I’ve Been Waiting For
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 8 October 2010
If Tirana were a boy, it’d be the boy I’ve been waiting to meet. You rumble across the border, furious windshield wiper and donkeys in the dirt road, hills dripping lush green. You dash from the taxi to the minibus, puddle-footed and soaking-hooded, grab the last seat as a man climbs into the trunk compartment. [...]
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Day 190: Albania, land of the warmest smiles
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 19 August 2010
Morning Coffee in Gjirokastra Didn't sleep well last night. Not sure what kept us up more: the coffee and raki (aniseed flavoured liquor sipped straight up, this is the albanian vodka) that Mario invited us to, or the thought of leaving this country which unexpectedly became our home away from home, our family away from family. Like a soulful bowl of chicken soup, Albania is one of the most
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Mission improbable
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 16 October 2009
Before getting on the bus last night, I nipped to the restaurant I’d gone to the night before. I then filled myself up with penne arrabiata and left. Just the trick. I also had time to do a bit of research for getting to Thessaloniki, there are many different options with different complication, price and [...]
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Lord, won’t you buy me …
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 15 October 2009
I went out at half 11 last night in search of a late tea, crikey it was freezing out. Seriously proper teeth chattering stuff. I needed a hot meal and found one at a little restaurant, roast chicken with rice and a pint of Korca (rich but nice). All for the bargain price of 400 [...]
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Most haunted
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 14 October 2009
I had my 2nd encounter with a cockerel on this odyssey last night/this morning, the 1st being in Chisinau if you remember. They don’t half make a right racket. That together with this room being absolutely freezing didn’t a good night’s sleep make. The room is that drafty I reckon It might be haunted. Maybe [...]
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