Monday, 26 April 2021

The Accursed Mountains and other Albanian adventures

August 2018 



From here on, the posts for our summer 2018 journey are based on notes I wrote during our travels, rather than once we'd finished, so they may be a little more piecemeal.

-Michael


Exhausted we landed in Tirana, Albania. The first thing I noticed was how green it looked after the brown and dry Greece and Turkey, and how tall the hills were nearby. It felt quite different.

A few days in Istanbul (not Constantinople)

August 2018 

After a short delay we were on our fairly short flight to Istanbul, a destination that had been on Mike's bucket list for some time.