Durres Travel Blogs

I start out the day by finding my way down the main street of Tirana to get to the bus station to go to Durres - on the way I run into the local hustler who tries to hit me for some cash - yeah they even exist in Albania despite the low level of tourism around here. Fortunately there are not th…

Durres is a port city about an hours bus ride from Tirana. We headed down to swim in the Adriatic.... The countryside along the highway was lined with farms, houses, villages... It sounded like when Zvonka was here 1995 things were a lot different, the highway wasn't here so it took a few hours t…

“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.” -   Lawrence Durrell 1912-1990, British Author    Durres, Albania. It is a surprise to us who wer…

I see a sign that I wasn't too happy to see " Durres 15 KM). We had traveled to the south and past Tirana and were almost to Durres on the Adriatic Coast. OMG! It will be another 30 - 45 minutes to Tirana. The only bright side is that I was able to see sun setting on the Albanian Coast of the Adr…

My trip to Macedonia and Albania.