Thursday, June 3, 2021
Moving day... and tire damage update
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Trail markers, but no trail
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Hiking in the snow!
This is the second post of the day. You may have missed our May Expenses post earlier on.
On Monday, we drove a short distance up to a trail that leads to a castle ruins. We had already been told that there isn't much left of the castle, so we knew not to expect too much. We also had already been told that "they" (whoever they are) are building a five star hotel up there.
May Expenses
Monday, May 31, 2021
Our Travel Insurance - HeyMondo
Sunday, May 30, 2021
We can't seem to get to where we want to go!
Saturday, May 29, 2021
There is still lots of snow up here!
Most people come to this area in order to get to the village of Theth and Theth National Park. And there are only three ways to get to Theth. One is by hiking, and the other two require 4 wheel drive.
It's a very remote area.
Unfortunately, that is changing.
Friday, May 28, 2021
First day out hiking in the Albanian Alps
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Check out our home in the mountains for the next week...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Now this is the kind of scenery we love!
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The top 5 so far, and why
I follow the blog of Johnny Ward at One Step 4 Ward. He has been to every country in the world. Not only the 192 United Nations listed countries, but the ones that really are countries, but not necessarily recognized as such by other countries. That brings the total list up to 215.
He posted a list of all those countries on Facebook the other day, and asked readers how many they had been to, and what their favorites were. Of course that got me thinking about what our top five might be.
Monday, May 24, 2021
It's not every day you have lunch with a MIG jet fighter pilot
Well yesterday was an interesting day!
Remember I mentioned that we had a noise coming from the transmission of our rental car? Well on Friday, we did a switch and they gave us a temporary car until they can figure out what's going on with the other one. So we were talking to the guys at Go Rent Albania about the great time we've been having here, and Zeni suggests that we should have lunch together during our time in Shkodra. Of course we agreed. Then on Saturday, he called and invited us to his family home for lunch! He said we would have a real traditional Albanian experience. And boy, was he right!
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Rozafa Castle in Shkodra, Albania
Saturday, May 22, 2021
A few things to talk about today!
In no particular order of importance though, so we'll start with email notifications. Many of you (almost 400 of you!) are signed up to receive an email notification whenever we make a new post. Unfortunately, the powers that be at Google have decided to discontinue this service as of June, so we have made some changes so that you can continue to receive email notifications.
I am manually transferring all the old subscriptions to the new service, but just in case, it would be a good idea to do it yourself.