http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/pecheur/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from pecheur en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:28:57 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:28:57 +0000 June 4th 2005 Left the group in Istanbul for some reason I was getting a little nostalgic even though the entire trip all I could think about was how to get the hell away from most of them. I hate goodbyes and living the type of life I did its been full of them. I especially hate them when people try and turn them into some emotional lsquoill never see you againrsquo type crap. I go to sch http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-43450.html TiranaJune 11thTirana is not my favorite city in terms of things to do and places to see for the quick traveler . That being said it reminds me much of my 'hometown' of Cairo Egypt with the pseudothird world feel. This city is not one of outstanding beauty and great historical monuments although there is much history to the region. We stayed at a little hostelhotel near the center of the ci http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/West/Tirana/blog-44124.html Albania at lastJune 10Sorry i dont have more photos i'm kicking myself that i didnt take more but i just wanst feeling very well aka very hungoverI love this country For some reason I've always wanted to come to this place its one of those places that you hear quite a bit either in the news or from other people yet you never hear it as an actual place to go. I also hear it in the con http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/West/Tirana/blog-43657.html Well since this is my first travellogblog I'm not exactly sure how it goes. But Irsquove always wanted to write something about my time spent in Egypt. I just got home from my last trip there for probably a long time. I lived there from 20002003 went to the American High school in Ma'adi a beautiful relatively sheltered suburb just south of Cairo. I really love to travel and reading th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-36060.html June 9th OrhidToday was an elusive search for sunshine. This town and the surroundings are beautiful but I just love sun. I thought that by June it would be well unto summer weather but I guess I should have done a bit more research as it was chilly an rainy almost the whole time there. We didnrsquot have any definite plans but just wondered throughout the town checking out all the nooks a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-43495.html This part was written by my traveling buddy Claire i wish she wrote more cause shes does a much better job then meJune 8th SofiaSkopjeOhridI am dosing off as the dreary weather in Sofia welcomes Matt and I to the Balkans. We start our trip off in Sofia everything is great so far we have our tickets to Skopje in advance and a taxi is waiting for us downstairs. 15 minutes later I realize t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/Ohrid/blog-43488.html Second DayCairo or Al Qahirah in Arabic boggles the mind and the senses. The first impression simply overloads the brain too much is happening in too many places too fast to make any sense of it. The insane traffic bound by no rules mixing with masses of apparently suicidal pedestrians both dogging the donkey carts wondering the streets seemingly ignorant of the 20th century heap of humanity http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-36403.html