Albania

  • albania in pictures: our biggest surprise of europe

    a surprising week of r&r and exploring after an all nighter at the athens airport and a bumpy hydrofoil ride from corfu (greece) to sarande. albania started off as the beginning of our trip up the ionian/adriatic sea (for me…

  • our homes away from home: the europe edition

    and as a follow-up to the asia accomodation recap, here is our recap from our european airbnb and hotels: barcelona: cost/night/person (in cad): $45 the thing that rocked: nothing.  we couldn’t wait to get out of there. the thing that…

  • the idiosyncrasies of albania, which we’ve learned to love

    -unfinished buildings – we noticed this in every town we passed and even in the countryside.  buildings will be built up and a large number are left dormant at various stages of construction (with no sign of construction equipment onsite). …

  • that time we spent an afternoon in a nuclear bunker

    with one and a half days in tirana, we had just enough time to do a little sightseeing.  there were a number of museums in the core of the city where we were staying but one particular museum stood out…

  • our short but sweet stopover in tirana

    our european itinerary has been all over the map and has seen numerous changes as the weeks have gone on.  about the only thing we knew for certain was that we wanted to spend two weeks in croatia however getting…

  • the beaches of the albanian riviera

    we spent five days in sarandë and had two days to spend roadtripping it out in search of beaches.  spending our first day on our hotel’s private beach was a great day in it’s own right but we had no…

  • Day Trips from Sarande

    The Blue Eye and Butrint were two sights recommended by various blogs as two places one must see while in Sarande. Although both sites are reachable by bus, we decided to rent a car to drive to both places so…

  • the sarandë promenade

    the main promenade of sarandë looked to be the most built up area of town* that we’ve seen during our stay in town.  it’s one of the longest stretches of uninterrupted waterfront property we saw and it stands out a…

  • r&r time at hotel mucobega in sarandë

    coming off of one heck of a travel day, we got dropped off at our lodging in sarandë in the pouring rain.  with the only things on our minds being to dry off and sleep off our travels, we did…

  • weekly recap #19 – santorini, saranda & tirana

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. santorini (hotel, 4 nights, thira), saranda (hotel, 5 nights), tirana (hotel, 2 nights, skanderberg square) q. favourite meal a. limani in saranda.  we’ve had some good meals this week…