Bay of Bones Museum, Ohrid Our next outing to North Macedonia was by car rather than bike so the border took us a fair bit longer this time. But not as long as the American motorcyclist who pulled up beside us – minus his registration plate! ‘lt fell off somewhere in Montenegro’, he explained to the irate customs officer. That I could well believe. On Montenegrin roads, I can imagine all kinds of bits and pieces get rattled off. Sure,…
An Outing to Korça As we trundled off on a day trip from Pogradec to Korça, I again noticed just how much of the terrain throughout Albania has been hacked away. I don’t know what you call it. Strip quarrying, perhaps. Anyway, it looks as if a crazy barber had been on the rampage with a giant razor, slicing away willy nilly. I can only imagine that this occurred during the bunkerisation period when ridiculous quantities of concrete were being…
Outings from Pogradec It was time to move on from Fushë-Krujë. This involved driving via Tirana with the caravan in tow, yikes! His Lordship did a great job though, keeping his eyes firmly on the road. And using the eyes in the back of his head to pick up on any mad manoeuvres from other drivers. Needless to say, I kept my own eyes tightly shut! Later on though, as the road rose high above Lake Ohrid, I kept my…
BunkArt, Tirana I was none too pleased when I heard that we were going to go back to Tirana just to see a bunker. For goodness sake, I’ve had my fill of Albanian bunkers. They’re everywhere! Over 173,000 of them in the country, to be exact. Apparently the locals call them ‘mushrooms’, but there’s nothing magic about them, I can tell you. They’re ugly and kind of creepy too, with those slits in them. I keep thinking they’re some kind…
A bird’s eye view of Tirana I congratulated myself on having survived the trauma of the drive to Tirana. Once His Lordship had found a parking space and I had checked that I still had my full complement of feathers, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the atmosphere in the city centre was totally laid-back. An oasis of calm after the motorway madness! The first thing I saw when we wandered onto the main plaza was a familiar face:…