Category Archives: Albania

We always knew that England in November was potentially not going to be a great place to be in the camper but we had the added problem of not wanting to enter any EU countries as we wanted to use our full 90 days skiing in Austria. Tough life we know! 😉 So on aContinue reading “Tirana”

Albania is situated just north of Greece and just off the heel of Italy and as such would probably attract more tourists in the summer to come and enjoy the coastline along the Adriatic Sea. Unfortunately for us it was November and while warmer than most of Europe it was still a little cool butContinue reading “Durrës”

We awoke to beautiful sunshine on the morning of our trip to Berat. Considering we took a taxi from Tirana to Durrës as our last mode of transport we decided to go back to our favourite if not slower form of transport being the local bus to get us to Berat. Luckily for us theContinue reading “Berat”

I think there is something quite fun about exploring a country by local bus. I am certainly not saying it’s for everyone or that it’s necessarily the best or quickest way to get somewhere but in a lot of the developing countries that we visit it’s the most used and most affordable way of gettingContinue reading “Apollonia by bus”

Sitting at about 700m above sea level and stretching to depths of about 300m Lake Ohrid is billed as a “must see” when visiting the Balkans and I have to admit being quite taken with the first impressions of both the lake with the snow capped mountains surrounding it and the town of Ohrid itselfContinue reading “Lake Ohrid”