http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/North/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Albania , North en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:54:53 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:54:53 BST We woke early to head up to Montenegro by early afternoon after a disagreement about how we should get to the bus stop at 6 am cat won we walked up to the top of town then sat backpacker hobo style on the side of the road hopping we were at the right place. A few wanders later to see if the stop was elsewhere a swanky new mini bus and some kiwis arrived and before long we were on our way up to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/North/Shkod-r/blog-302183.html No buses run to Albania. In fact when inquiring at the eyesore of a bus station in Pogdirica Montenegrorsquos flat and characterless capital I received the same reaction for going to Albania as I did for Moldova while in Odessa ldquoWhy do you want to go thererdquo I took a look around and resisted the retort that Pogdirica was no gem either. If Montenegro is to separate from Serbi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/North/Shkod-r/blog-278119.html Albania was just amazing God really did some amazing things the week we were in Albania. And this is the first year Jesus Revolution has toured in Albania. We started off with a couple of days off in Shkroda and had some fun at the lake where almost everyone but me got burned. This city also has a mosque that is said to have been built by Bin Laden.Then we had our first concert in Fiere. It was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/North/Shkod-r/blog-65139.html I arrived early in the morning from Kotor to Ulcinj where I had heard it should be easy to get a miniwan to Shkoder. But the informations there were confusing. One person told me it left at one o'clock another at 14.30 then one said 11 and finally someone told me four o'clock. As I was running pretty swetty and tired around I believe I was noticeable to more than one person so in the end a gu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/North/Shkod-r/blog-14726.html The suspense is now over we have finally arrived and tomorrow we depart. As logic normally will tell you though people rarely listen is that the hype is usually nothing like the actual experience. It reminds me of the buildup to a GREAT New Yearrsquos Eve party. Every time you have all the hype and all the expectation it is never what you think it will be. In our case we heard a lot of n http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/North/Shkod-r/blog-11876.html