Life is a journey
The Koman lake is said to be one of the highlights not to be missed in Albania. Upfront we had read about a car ferry going from one end to another, and planned the trip with this option. As we were not able to find […]
Shkodra is situated by the Shkodra Lake (surprise, surprise), and was more or less just a place for us to spend the night before heading onward to Koman. Arriving just before sunset, we only freshened up and went out for some food and drinks. Sitting […]
When we were in Ohrid, we were advised to visit St. Naum Monastery. It is situated in the south end of the lake, close to the Albanian border. The monastery and the area around in itself was quite nice, but they were in the process […]
Since we found ourselves near by the border to Albania, we decided to take a short detour, going to Bajram Curry. Well. It ended up not being that short, as the road conditions are quite bad most of the way, and we had to drive […]
It was certainly not an easy task to find a rental company that would allow us to cross the borders of all the Balkan countries we planned to visit. Most of the big car rental companies like Avis and Hertz would exclude one or more […]
The old town of Gjirokastra is one of the best-preserved examples of an Ottoman-style town in the Balkans. The town is packed with sights, and I recommend to do as we did; buy a map with the main sight. We also bought the book “Gjirokastra […]
As I only had a brief stay in Dhermi last year, I was eager to spend some more time there. We got on the mini bus leaving Saranda at 11.30, heading towards Vlora. The trip to Dhermi takes about 2,5 hours, including a stop about […]
The only international airport in Albania is found in Tirana, but as the Greek island of Corfu is only about 40 min boat ride away, it is quite easy to get to the south of the country from there. The departures from Corfu to Saranda […]
We could not decide what to do after leaving Corfu, and we actually did not make the final decision before the same morning. We then decided to go back to Albania for a relaxing last week. We took the boat to Saranda, and went strait […]
Since we did not know exactly when the bus would leave, we were quite pleased with the timing when it arrived just as we got up to the main street around 8.30. The bus stopped by a small café a few hundred meters from the […]
Lesson learned from yesterday, combined with the desire to not get up too early, we decided to take the bus at 10.00, this time heading for Dhermi, situated by the sea. To get there, we could either take a bus to Vlora or Feri, and […]
Time had run by quickly, and it was almost 13.00. To make it easy, we found a taxi and asked him to drive us to where the busses for Barat left from. There are two kinds of busses, the regular ones, and the mini busses, […]
Time had come to get from Dubrovnik to Albania. We had tried to search online for how to get there before we went on the trip, but we could not really conclude how to go. We then decided to find out when we got to […]