Neum to Makarska and Bol
June 4th and 5th 2019 When you follow the Adriatic coast, in Croatia, you must go through a small enclave of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the town of Neum. Despite the fact that Neum has the…
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Athens to Brussels; recap of the entire trip
In my first post retirement trip, I visited 11 countries cycling almost 4,500 kilometers in 66 steps from May 5th to July 24th 2019. A trip almost impossible to summarize except to say that despite the…
Lire la suiteShkodra in Podgorica
May 28, 2019 I extended my stay by a day at Lake Shkodra Resort, my luxury campsite, because the weather was too uncertain. It allowed me to take a little walk in the Albanian countryside when…
Lire la suiteTheth; flora, rocks, mountains and cows.
May 26, 2019 My stay at the Bujtina Berishta guest room was outstanding. The food is extremely good, fresh and local, and I slept like a baby! The advantage of being in the country. The main…
Lire la suiteThethi National Park
May 25, 2019 My first night in a tent was not ideal. The bedding is very nice but the rain has hurt my sleep and the stress made me get up around six in the morning,…
Lire la suiteFush-Kruja in Shkodra
May 24, 2019 I had not realized that when choosing the Erandi Hotel in Rinas I was right next to Tirana airport. In fact, the hotel is a few kilometres from Fush-Kruja and not at all…
Lire la suiteElbasan in Fush-Kruj
May 23, 2019 The stay in Elbasan was not memorable but my walk to Tirana was one of the most beautiful to date. The old national road between its two cities gradually rises to just over…
Lire la suiteBerat in Elbasan
May 22, 2019 Elbasan has a very famous castle, like Berat, but that's not why I stopped here. I had two options to get to Tirana; a long and relatively flat highway or a shorter but…
Lire la suiteBerat, its castle and museums
May 21, 2019 I made the tourist on Tuesday; visit the famous Berat Castle, an ethnographic museum and the Iconographic Museum Onufri. The latter contains the largest collection of icons from the 15th to the 19th…
Lire la suiteRadhimin in Berat
May 20, 2019 My night at Pasterella Resort was very relaxing as the property is in the countryside and the only noise after rush hour was the coaking of frogs. Vlora is a beautiful city but…
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