Shkoder Travel Blogs

Driving in to Shkoder was some experience.  After the border control and the car accident we experienced there, we took it easy. This especially after, we had read in our Brandt travel guide, while we were waiting at the border control, that the traffic in Albania was dangerous. We followed th…

The main purpose for visiting Shkoder must be to catch a bus to Budva we decided. As we arrived in town... to catch a bus to Budva (Montenegro), we were inundated by taxis and mini bus drivers chanting Budva, Budva, and offering us rides for outrageous fees. That made more sense when we got there…

  Savor Shkoder - No More Mountain Driving   SHKODER CITY SONGS   The people of Shkoder have developed a special kind of music over the centuries that is quite different from anything else in Albania. They made more sophisticated music, with lyrical, romantic texts, a restra…

From Macedonia to Albania.

Tirana from the north is figgin nuts. I mean so busy it blew my mind right out the window. Kampala, Uganda and the most congested cities i saw in Mexico didn't seem to touch the chaos and business of the North of Albania entering and exiting the captial city. If Tirana is the heart of Albania, then…

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way

The Albanian center of Scutari is dominated from a citadel strengthened that it goes up again to the XV century, or rather the period in which the Republic in Venice dominated the city. Currently Scutari is a productive and commercial center of discreet importance of north-western Albania.  th…

I travelled to the town Budva in Montenegro and Dubrovnik in Croatia.

I live in London, I love the city more and more though being unemployed is rough. Let's just make this a general trendy life stylish blog with a note about as many borough and neighbourhood that I will manage to set foot in. The blog won't follow a chronological order, so I will talk about the boroughs and then had my specific thoughts in between.