Woke up and then headed to find a minibus to Kruje! Kruje is the most touristy setup town so far I see in Albania!!! There is this old bazzar that sold all these touristy gifts and stuff...some are coool....esp. the instrument here......but.....argh...didnt get it. The castle was another hilltop ruin.......not very interesting inside...but nice view... Besides this, really not much! haaaa. Theres a museum, but we decided not to go in...... We sat down and had some lunch and then took the bus back to Tirana. Short but pleasant day=) now I just need to find my way to the port [View Full Entry]

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Stroll around Gjirokastra in the morning...walked into this big old house, with an old lady and asked to get inside to see the interior......very Turkish style.....nice big house, too bad its vacant and not carefully maintained....... lots of stray dogs in town and this one was jumping on us and bitting us!! ARGH!!! so scary...and the bit actually hurts...+( Anyways, then went down to take the bus....asked around and a minibus said he goes to Berat! so I hopped on and went.........it stopped at Fier! and asked me to take a taxi to Berat!!! too expensive...so I took the minibus from [View Full Entry]

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Woke up early to catch a bus to Gjirokastra. On the map, it wasn't far..but it was a 7 hours bus ride!!! OMG.....so tired.. Albania has some of the worst roads!!! and they were all winding roads in the moutains! I see a lot of construction going on, so I guess the situation will improve. People are very helpful as well. You just stand at the bus station and ask someone for the destination, and they will somehow get you there. I like it in the city that they don't rip tourist off, which is nice. Only people at the port [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Durres, Albania, the port was...........basically a flat piece of concrete!!! got through customs and nothing there beside a bunch of cars calling themselves a taxi. So lost, got ripped off and hopped on a taxi to find the bus to Tirana! Once on the bus it was all easy, dropped right off at the train station and I just took the bigest road I saw until I got to the big Scanderbeg Square. kinda walked through and when I thought I was lost, the hostel staff found me and pointed me to the hostel, which was right across the [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, Sara had to pack coz she will be leaving to Australia when I leave for Albania! But, I was a little dizzy still and my eyes start swelling for some stupid reason!! argh.... so, slacked the morning, went to her parents' house, she cooked some pasta and just hea till Mirko came. So, deicded to see Urbino, which accidentally was their University town! So, Mirko drove me there to look around..... haaa...the town was so dead........SOSOSO dead basically, we finished walking in less than an hour! haaa, It was very medieval ...went to the hill on the other side to [View Full Entry]

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So, left Verona and headed out to the train station when I decided to take a train that didnt run that day!!!! ARGH...waited 2.5 hours till I got to Bologna... Bologna is the red city....and ...walking around for 3 hours....it wasnt too visually appealling.... left soon to head to Rimini to meet my CS host, Sara...when the train was an hour late!!! >< Arrived in Rimini and Sara and her friend came to pick me up! They were all so nice!!!! It was her birthday and all night was spent with her friends and lots of pizzas and beer! HAAAAA! Next [View Full Entry]

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Lots of people in Italy can't speak English!.....and I cant understand much from them.... Anyways.. This moring went to the post office to mail stuff.....had two small boxes coz one mask was already in a box.. Walked all the way to the post office and the man saw them and insisted on mailing them in one box! argh. They dont fit in the medium box, so I got the large one, walked all the way back to the hostel, pack as much as I can in and walked all that way back and guess what? That post office ran out of [View Full Entry]

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yesterday spent the whole day travelling to Verona. Checked into a female hostel. Was expecting sth warmer, then a cool bucket of water pour over my head. The lady at the reception was...COLD.. I mean...she did all the reception stuff, but the place seems like a place for people to stay long....so there are signs saying "Tourist not allowed to use Kitchen" and It was freeezing at night and they don't have any blankets.....I jad to double fold my sheets, the bed cover and use my snowbaording jacket, then wear another jacket to sleep to keep warm!!!!!!! >__< Anyways, They dont [View Full Entry]

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Spent a whole day in Europe's 3rd smallest country, Liechtenstein. It's basically an Austria County to begin with, and somehow over the years, gain independence. However, the Money and postal system is same as Switz and the Language is basically, German. The Size of this country is like...less than half of NT in Hong Kong!! but here even less land coz mostly dominated by mountains!! Its more like a small city by the Rhine River Valley.... Anyways, took the bus straight to the capital - Vaduz. They didn't doany border check, They only have a border set with Austria but they [View Full Entry]

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Innsbruck is a very beautiful town with the moutain backdrop. but, that's about it. Maybe coz I didn't get up to the mountains here, which is a pity. It was Sunday, so everything was closed basically. The big sights promoted weren't really big, so.......I guess I dunno this city well enough to say anything. Pretty dull day for me...=! [View Full Entry]

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