Just like my sugary, bus-station lemon tea, Gjirokaster is steep. I got dropped off on the side of the main, flat road. This is where you will find a Lidl, a Credins Bank atm that doesn’t charge fees and good restaurants with decent prices. Once you begin scaling the mountain to your accommodation (assuming you’re […]
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For 500 lek cash you can catch the bus from Tirana to Berat. I left at 10:45, arriving at the Berat bus station at 12:55. What an eventful bus ride it was. I was seated next to a lovely poet who gifted me a signed copy of his book, which I ended up shamefully leaving
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From Budva, Montenegro I took a bus (trains didn’t just magically appear– rude) to Tirana, Albania- arriving at Tirana International Bus Terminal. Tirana is a funny one. Not sure if you ever encountered stale potpourri in your great grandmother’s house, but it’s the best way for me to describe Tirana. A potpourri city- a mix
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montenegro backpacking route Back in the land of the euro, I caught a bus (shocker) from Mostar to Kotor, Montenegro. The day before I left Mostar, I walked the 35 minutes to the bus station to buy my ticket since there was only one bus the next day that left at a decent time. I’m
Oh Banja, Banja, Luka. This inconveniently located town in Bosnia and Hair of Genovia (most commonly known as Herzegovina) is where a little known low-cost airline called Ryanair flies to. banja luka summed up What’s here you might ask? That’s a great question. I’ll take Tears and Sadness for 500, Alex. (I only use the
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On my quest (I’ve been watching too much LOTR) to visit every country in the world, I scooted over to Bratislava, Slovakia from Salzburg, Austria as the next stop on my impromptu train travels. I know there is more to the country than the capital and I know some people will hum and hah about
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I had to Google what riding the rails meant in case it was something dirty. It’s not unless you translate it into another language. I was trying for a play on words with interrail/ eurail (depending on where your home base is). I crunched some numbers (not really) – since last minute train tickets are
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Aurora, the northern lights, not the Disney princess (nobody wants to find her, she’s the most useless one). I’m already loving this journey and I haven’t even gotten to the airport yet. Christmas time in Finland with the sole purpose to see the aurora borealis. Will a Christmas miracle happen? the route: 2.15 hours of
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As I mentioned in my Christmas Market list, we ( I say we because I wrote this years ago) originally went to Lille for the purpose of seeing a Christmas market- sort of. On the NS international train website, we saw that it would be a nice day trip from Amsterdam (it’s 3.5 hours now
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IT’S CARNIVAL! I assume everyone read that in an uplifting Dr. Nick Simpson’s- esque tone. If not, you don’t know what you’re missing. Venice Carnival- the dates change every year but expect a two-week festival very late into January and into mid-February. Festivals don’t get much better than this. Elaborate Venetian costumes with the perfect
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