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Rogam/Valbone

Posted on September 21, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I kept going down the hill and eventually the boy on the horse caught up with me and passed me. He said his house was just a little bit further down and I told ...

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Hiking from Thethi to Valbone

Posted on September 20, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I started hiking around 7:30am. I was a bit concerned about how I would fare, as I haven’t done a lot of big hikes like this. I walk a lot in Istanbul and...

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Thethi

Posted on September 11, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

  The furgon (minibus) I would ride was an old, battered, orange Mercedes. The roads up to the villages aren’t passable by regular cars; the only vehicles...

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Shkoder

Posted on September 6, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I was Shkoder bound. I didn’t know much about Shkoder, except that it has global recognition because of the blood feuds that still happen in northern Alba...

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Tirana

Posted on September 5, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

On the bus from Berat to Tirana I was glued to the window. I remembered on the bus in to Berat we had passed a house that was designed to look like a boat and I...

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Berat

Posted on September 1, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I boarded the bus in Sarande and was Berat bound. It’s roughly a 250km journey. Though cities in Albania are never far apart as the crow flies, bus travel...

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