Tag: Cycle touring Albania
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Our final day in Albania… Hello Macedonia!
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 to get out of our sleeping bags then, it wasn’t fully light and the only movement possible was snoozing the alarm and burrowing ourselves deeper…
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Punctures, punctures and bunkers.
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!” He proclaimed. Goma indeed, Sam’s tyre was flat again and so this morning, we had yet another repair to carry out. Once that was done,…
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Recovering in Durres
“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 a million people here? The police do nothing and they keep building them. I still love Durres, Durres is my city, but you should have…
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Stumbling upon Albania’s military past….
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 across during your day. We often find ourselves in places or situations that just wouldn’t happen if you were on a bus or passing through…
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Sickness, side roads and Skanderberg.
George Kastriati Skanderberg is somewhat of a national hero in Albania, his person floats somewhere between true life hero and mythical tales that tell of his fearlessness and reputation as a fierce warrior and leader. It’s impossible to travel in Albania and not hear him mentioned or notice his legacy, there are Kastriati petrol stations…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 