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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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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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Sarande

Posted on August 30, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

From Gjirokaster the bus was about two hours to Sarande. Sarande is on the Southern Albanian coast and is one of the country’s more touristy destinations ...

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First stop: Gjirokaster

Posted on August 25, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

The bus from Athens was long. Thankfully, though, I hadn’t slept much the night before which enabled me to sleep a lot on the bus. In Istanbul I know enou...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Konya

Posted on December 17, 2011 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I’ve been dabbling in reading Rumi for the past year or so. In my time here in Istanbul, I’d like to travel to different parts of the country, so a ...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Bursa and Uludağ

Posted on November 13, 2011 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Older brother Graham came to visit me. He’s been wandering around for around 3 months, and his last month will be with me in Istanbul. I had last week off...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Ibrahim

Posted on October 22, 2011 by how_sven / 0 Comment

About a week ago, I was taking the metro, on my way to my Turkish lessons after work. I had been conversing with another teacher about other cities we’d l...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Weekend in Edirne

Posted on October 6, 2011 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I’d been disappointed that my dad wouldn’t be able to visit me, but with one week’s notice, he told me that he’d found a way. He’d...

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