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Category Archives: Albania

Our final day in Albania… Hello Macedonia!

January 19, 2015by samuelgunter Leave a comment

An early start. To say we woke up cold would be a huge understatement…. We were freezing. The alarm sounded at 5am but there was no chance we were going […]

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Leskovik to Mollaj- Albania’s South East

January 19, 2015by sheenalydon Leave a comment

  The south east of Albania has been quite a contrast to many of the parts of the country we have seen before, most of the towns and villages we […]

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Croissants, campfires and communist memorials….

January 16, 2015by sheenalydon Leave a comment

I’m going to be brutally honest here, Albania has some roads that are quite seriously beyond shite and they nearly got the better of me today. Imagine the surface of […]

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Punctures, punctures and bunkers.

January 15, 2015by sheenalydon 2 Comments

When we arrived back at the petrol station/hotel/coffee shop after visiting Gjirokaster yesterday, one of the guys working on the pumps came over gesticulating wildly at our bikes “Goma, goma!” […]

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Albania – castles, crashed planes and drug lord villages.

January 15, 2015by sheenalydon Leave a comment

Albania is a strange creature, it is very different to a lot of the countries we have visited so far in a variety of ways. On of which is their […]

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Steel of the party!

January 14, 2015by samuelgunter Leave a comment

Today we left Elbasan to the town of Fier… it was a tough day. The roads were beyond terrible which resulted in it taking much much longer than expected! It […]

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Albania’s forgotten trains

January 8, 2015by samuelgunter 1 Comment

It seems I have to admit something… Sheena has known for a while but I have been reluctant to be true to myself and have been hiding a secret deep […]

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Recovering in Durres

December 30, 2014by samuelgunter Leave a comment

“You should have come here ten years ago, Durres was beautiful. Now we have all these apartments, enough for a million people – when the hell will there ever be […]

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A day trip to Tirana

December 28, 2014by sheenalydon Leave a comment

Our initial planning for Albania indicated that cycling into Tirana would be a behemoth task, rumours of over congested ring roads and maniac driving led us to take the decision […]

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Stumbling upon Albania’s military past….

December 28, 2014by samuelgunter Leave a comment

An abandoned airbase in Albania. Cycle touring may be one of the slowest ways to travel, but one of its main bonuses is the unusual and unexpected things you come […]

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