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…
Golden Town of Kremnica, Slovakia I’ve often experienced changeable weather, but in this part of Slovakia, I’ve experienced changeable terrain. One minute we are following a narrow, windy road through the hills, then suddenly we find ourselves on a brand new multi-lane road which narrows down again equally suddenly. Soon after, we’re driving through a forest, the next we’re on a flat plain with high mountains in the distance. Boring it most definitely is not. Beautiful it most definitely is….
Hinterthal, Maria Alm, Salzburg Province Great. I’ve got my owners to promise not to make any further attempts to get me back on those bloomin’ skis. I can finally relax and check out the skiing scene without the fear of being launched down the piste myself. Now for my first ride on a chairlift. Not bad at all, amazing technology. Uh oh, am I suffering from altitude sickness or what? I’m getting very hot and flushed all of a…
Hochkönig Ski Area Now I know where I, Seamus the Skigull, went wrong with the skiing. I had been watching the Winter Olympics with His Lordship, and I now realise that those pros make skiing look easy. What I should have done was watch Her Ladyship on the slopes. She makes skiing look hard. In fact, the way she goes about it, she makes it look nigh on impossible. If I’d seen her in action, I’d have been a lot…
Almenland, Styria, Austria When I signed up for this travel lark, I didn’t know I’d also signed up for time travel! There I was, enjoying spring in Portugal just a few days ago… … and now I’m back in the depths of winter again. Shiver me timbers! Literally. Wouldn’t you know it? The Oldies have returned to Austria just when there’s a big freeze on. And, as if we haven’t enough snow here in town, they’ve decided to go on…