I left Santorini yesterday. It was nice to finally leave the island, though it has been great, but I started feeling that I did nothing with these precious days of holiday, -except trying to get a little more brown, which is and always has been impossible for me! There were people it was sad to say goodbye to, but that's life and that's travelling. You meet so many people and some of them you are destined to like. All you can do afterwards is to hope that you might have a free week to visit them one day. Being on Santorini I've had quit some bad news and further. Except from the daily Pina Colada and other party-island traditions, I've had several talks with my mother and czech-airlines whom I really don't understand. I had been ... read more

When I told my mother I was going to Athens, she asked me why! If there was one capital in Europe she absolutely didn't like it was that one. Maybe, she told me, it has the Acropolis, but the rest... I thought that was kind of a pesimistic idea of the European democracy's birthplace. I mean a city with such a history must have more than some ancient ruins on a hill-top. But I must admit that my mother was right. Athens is definetly not my favourite place for a vacation. The city seems almost sad. The houses build in a period not known for the greatest architecture and it is impossible to breath anything just slightly reminding you of fresh air. But there were other things in Athens. I finally got company again and the ... read more

I'm at the moment in Ioannina, Greece, but before writing about returning to the European Union I wish to write a few thoughts down about Albania. I already told about Shkoder fastly, but now after having completed my Albanian experience for this time, I wish to tell what I discovered about the culture. Since I'm only a backpacker going fastly through I offcourse haven't digged down into the Albanian lifestyle and do not know much more than others about Albania. But here is what I found out. Language difficulties Firstly I noticed the language and was pretty fast trying to figure out what it came closest to. But honestly Albanian is a little bit of everything and still nothing like any other language I've heard. They speak as if they are mumbling, using sounds from the ... read more

Arriving in Kotor two days ago, I met a rather strange woman at the busstation who constantly followed me, wanting me to accomondate at her place. She was extremely old and all dressed in black - looking a little bit like my images of the witch in the Little Red Riding Hood. I didn't get much of her very fast talk, but after long considerations and her constantly saying Stari Grad, Moda, Stari Grad, I and a Belgien guy chose to go with her. We came to a small apartment near the cathedral, where she immidiately started serving us coffee and once again saying moda moda. I had assumed it ment modern, but her place was far from that. The toilet was in a terrible condition, and on the one wall of the living room hang ... read more

I've been on my way for a time now. Currently, I'm in Kotor, but I would wish to give a little update on both Mostar and Dubrovnik. So to start with Mostar... Mostar I came after a sleepy busride from Split. I had really been looking forward to see the reconstructed bridge and the reunited city. But as I arrived to the famous bridge and found myself back in the tourist hell of Split I got rather down and went for a coke and a little break from the endless bazaar streching on both sites of the bridge. All these daytrippers from Dubrovnik almost breaking the bridge for the second time with there uncountable number of feet, legs, arms, cameras and convirtable marks. I know I myself am a tourist and one in the bunch and ... read more