Taking the bus from Prizren to Skopje was smooth sailing, or whatever you say for a bus. If you’re missing the 90s when everyone could smoke everywhere. Inside, outside, upside- just head to Kosovo and Macedonia. These Balkan countries are one big ashtray. I saw the odd sign to not smoke, but I think people […]
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After my safari, I arrived at my Arusha accommodation around 16:30. There was some traffic and we needed to drop off a number of people at different parts of the city- bit of a schlep. I had one night before catching a flight to Zanzibar the next day. It got dark around 18:00 and I
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I take 0 credit for that yummy title. Nestled between France and Spain, sits Andorra. Originally, I thought people were mispronouncing some region of Spain that I never heard of. Turns out it’s a country? When I got off the 3 hour bus from Barcelona, I read a sign that the capital, Andorra la Vella,
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When leaving the Warsaw airport, if you want to catch the bus into town, don’t follow the ‘coach’ signs- they lead you to the long distances buses. When I went through the doors at arrivals, there wasn’t clear signage- but I always say that when I don’t pay attention and put 2% effort into looking
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arriving in Bari from Durres, Albania I thought Bari would be a bit icky because it has a massive ferry port situation going on, but it still has a little somethin, somethin. On the web (do people still say that?)– I’ll answer for you, no– you’ll see there is a street (Arco Basso) where adorable
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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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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
