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Europe » Albania » West » Elbasan August 3rd 2021

Bonjour à tous, Toujours en Albanie, et ce soir toujours pas de nouvelles du "pelesse". Avant que ça me soit conseillé, j'ai bien vérifié les indésirables, et j'ai même tenté une nouvelle demande, refusée, car adresse mail déjà enregistrée. Hier au soir je suis allé manger sur le port, 300m environ de l'hôtel, et en m'y rendant comme au retour, j'étais content que ma voiture soit gardée par la police du port. Des bandes gamins rom, les petits effrontés comme on en rencontre chez nous, ceux qui n'ont peur et qui ne reculent devant rien, ceux qu'on ne veut pas rencontrer le soir en rentrant, trainaient à l'entrée de la promenade. Les parents faisaient la manche, de manière assez agressive, les albanais ne font pas dans le détail, et les jettent physiquement. Le restaurant, plus tôt ... read more
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Europe » Albania » West » Elbasan May 20th 2018

Albania 2018. Day 3 Last night we had a meal outside by the river, which was very pleasant. It started with a good mixed salad with pickled gherkins and ended with chicken and very nice tagliatelle pasta. Whilst the chicken was tasty I think it was a scraggy thing,or they took off the bulk of the meat befor chopping it into pieces, giving us bone with a little meat on. Very tasty all the same, regardless of the calories consumed in finding the meat. Did I say the red wine was good? The Ballkan Hotel this morning served up a good breakfast with the usual cold meats, boiled egg, cheese, cucumber etc plus pieces of cooked batter upon which we put on sweet jams of fig, quince and cherry. A really nice change. A good start ... read more
Old lady with scythe.
Manual hoeing/weeding.
Josy overlooking the river.

Europe » Albania » West » Elbasan May 19th 2018

Albania. 2018 Day 2 71km 1000m ascent. Good breakfast at the Hotel Austria in Tirana with bacon and egg, continental breakfast of ham ,cheese etc and croissants, cakes etc, mango juice and coffee. Everything you need for a good start. Luckily the weather was fine and little cloud and warm enough for shirt and shorts. We followed the guide’s van out of town and then followed the planned route up the mountain to our coffee stop at half way. The lunch was almost at the top, by which time the temperature was hitting the 20’s and the views on the ascent were magnificent. Lunch was salad and chips with Creme fraische (I think) and for the meat we had spit roasted goat. Quite nice, once the eyes were taken out. A little more climbing and past ... read more
Goat roasting.
The goat is now served
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Europe » Albania » West » Elbasan August 6th 2015

Europe » Albania » West » Elbasan July 28th 2010

Po nocy urozmaiconej darciem ryjów macedonskiej mlodziezy, sturliwania się z materaca polozonego w jednym wolnym miejscu campingu, tj. na górce i ze sledziami wbijajacymi sie w plecy, skorzystawszy z toalety, która ktos na szczescie zdazyl oporzadzic po nocnych koszmarach, postanowilismy zobaczyc, co jednak Macedonia ma do zaoferowania. Bo wd. Lonely Planet jak się nie zobaczylo Ohridu, to się nie widzial Macedonii, a my postanowilismy - i to przeciez przypadkiem, zobaczyc tylko to. Miasto jest fantastycznie polozone - nad samym jeziorem. Jak wszedzie tu - nad caloscia goruje zamek, a w jego cieniu ulokowaly się niezliczone bizantyjskie koscioly, wewnatrz zdobione bajecznymi freskami. Królową kosciolow jest jedenastowieczna swieta Sofia, budowana na wzor Sofii z Konstantynopola. Jednak najpiekniej polozony jest swiety Jovan, nad samym brzegiem jeziora, prawdopodobnie najczesciej fo... read more
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Sveti Jovan at Kaneo.
Sveti Kliment i Pantelejmon.

Europe » Albania » West » Elbasan April 18th 2008

We've moved! Chris and I returned to the US for one week before shipping back out again-- this time for a two year+ three month stint in Albania! We're serving in the Peace Corps, which means that Chris will be assigned to work in a bashkia and his goals include Community Development, while I will be implementing health programs within the Public Health Department. For the time being, we're stationed in Elbasan, the third largest city, where we do technical training with all 37 volunteers twice a week. However, all of us trainees are living with host families split amongst 8 of the surrounding villages. That's where we doing our language training-- five days each week. Learning Shqip (pronounced "ship"). Its a pretty intense language, I'm not gonna lie. Life here is not better, its not ... read more




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