“below us we could see Budva, a walled town on a round peninsula, a little white tortoise against the blue sea”It was a two hour journey north from Ulcinj to the major tourist town of Budva, north up the coast on the cheap and reliable Montenegrin bus service. ...
We got up in Shkoder for our last ample Albanian breakfast at the Hotel Colosseo. Today we would be travelling from ...
Downtown ShkoderVisiting the town of Shkoder was very much an after thought in the great scheme of the trip. Having ...
The public transport system in Albania may lack timetables, but what it loses in reliability it makes up in ...
The overnight bus (hopefully our last) was probably the worst of the lot. The battered Macedonian bus had some major ...
“Skopje reveals a difference between the Slav and the Turk, the European and the Asiatic, at every turn of the ...
Day One: Swimming and Eating“not one in a million Englishmen have been to Ohrid”We had been very surprised when we had ...
Day Three: Galata and BeyogluThe bus journey back was somehow more comfortable and we got to Istanbul feeling ...
Day One: Goreme Open Air MuseumThe overnight bus was pretty painful. Don’t get me wrong, the company was pretty good ...
Day One: Fish at the Galata BridgeThe impressive fish menuIstanbul is a city that is and always will be tremendously ...
