Well I made it back to Tirana today. The bus ride here from Berat was actually quite enjoyable (comparatively). As the heading implies, I’ve had some type of stomach bug for the past 10 days or so. It wasn’t too debilitating, mostly just inconvenient. I finally decided that it wasn’t going away on its own, […]
Read more "Coping with Dysentery on the Balkan Trail"Lisa and I caught a bus after breakfast from Himara to Berat, a small village in the interior of Albania on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. The drive here was spectacular, if not almost terrifying. The trip started along the coastline, but the Albanian coastline is like none I’ve ever seen before. Huge steep […]
Read more "The Mountains Win Again"Corfu turned out to be one of the best cities of this trip. I spent several days on the island with Gaby and Lisa, the Brazilian and German companions I met that week. Our last full day on Corfu was spent mostly on the beach. In the evening we walked into town and, after a […]
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