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23 August 2016
Our waking times have been creeping towards more decent times (sevenish rather than sixish). With very little urgency to do things, we made it down to breakfast around 0930. It was a little rushed as the buffet finishes at 1000. We saw a table with a shocking mess on it, a fair amount of unconsumed […]
22 August 2016
We checked out from our guesthouse and drove down to Bologna today. The drive through very narrow and remote roads weren’t as worrying today as we didn’t have the same concerns of being led astray by Google Maps. It was a 3h plus journey non-stop but we stopped in Parma for a walk around the […]
21 August 2016
Italians aren’t big on breakfast; usually just coffee and maybe a pastry at most. So we were pleasantly surprised by the relatively big breakfast at our guesthouse consisting of packaged toast, egg and some pastries. Our Nepali hostess had suggested that we take the bus 0915 down to Vernaza and then the boat to explore […]
20 August 2016
It was great to have a hotel next to the train station that goes straight to the airport. The train goes every 20 minutes and I just missed that one at 0600. I got to the airport in plenty of time still to use the lounge after going through Copenhagen’s user-friendly security checkpoint. I found […]
7 August 2014
The hostel unexpectedly gave a light breakfast. It was good enough to get me going for the exploration of central Skopje. I set of at 0830 walking towards Macedonia Square and crossed the old stone bridge across the river to the so-called Albanian district. There were lots of newish monuments and statues some of which […]
6 August 2014
I had a leisurely morning by my standards, pottering around and leaving the apartment / gueshouse soon after 1015 for the bus station bound for Skopje. This kinda represents the end of my long adventure through Papua and explorations through the Balkans. The remainder of the journey is to previously covered territory Istanbul and time […]
5 August 2014
Sveti Naum Monastery I wanted to go to the old monastery Sveti Naum today. It was a 50 min bus ride but I opted for a more pleasant but costlier boat journey on the lake leaving at 1000. It was indeed pleasant in the shade of the top deck cruising past villages and hotels. The […]
4 August 2014
We went through Albanian exit immigration (perhaps we did) and entered Macedonia around 0400. My passport showed no exit stamp from Montenegro, no Albanian stamps at all and an entry into Macedonia. Go figure!? At around 0530 we pulled into Ohrid station. It was light already. I needed a second layer for the first time […]
3 August 2014
Above: Diving Karola wreck in what I consider to be poor visibility. Diving Disappointment As I had a day to kill and didn’t fancy lying on any of Ulcinj’s crowded beaches, I opted to go diving. The attraction was a large wreck but I had to do a check-dive before doing the proper wreck dive. The […]
3 August 2014
I had a day to kill in Ulcinj and didn’t fancy lying on any of its crowded beaches. So I opted to dive with D’Olcinium Diving Club. Little did I know that it would be a complete waste of time and money. Pricing, Options & Equipment They charge EUR25 per dive (up to two dives […]