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Synchronous Summers: Photos and Stories

Posted on August 24, 2018 by how_sven / 0 Comment

We’d just driven down scenic M-22 after camping at the Betsie River campground outside of Frankfort, Michigan. We had spent a few days in Grand Rapids before we...

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Shkoder to Pogradec by Train

Posted on October 31, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Nobody rides Balkan trains, and for good reason, too. Remember that fantastic scene in Casino Royale when James Bond meets Vesper on the train through Montenegr...

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Koman Ferry

Posted on October 24, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

The ferry from Fierze to Koman goes down the man-made Lake Koman, cutting through the mountains, which makes for spectacular scenery. The boat was pretty full w...

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Bajram Curri

Posted on October 7, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

The furgon from Valbone to Bajram Curri leaves every morning at 7:00. There’s only one furgonper day and I don’t know why it leaves at such a ridicu...

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Rogam/Valbone

Posted on September 21, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I kept going down the hill and eventually the boy on the horse caught up with me and passed me. He said his house was just a little bit further down and I told ...

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Hiking from Thethi to Valbone

Posted on September 20, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I started hiking around 7:30am. I was a bit concerned about how I would fare, as I haven’t done a lot of big hikes like this. I walk a lot in Istanbul and...

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Thethi

Posted on September 11, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

  The furgon (minibus) I would ride was an old, battered, orange Mercedes. The roads up to the villages aren’t passable by regular cars; the only vehicles...

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Shkoder

Posted on September 6, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I was Shkoder bound. I didn’t know much about Shkoder, except that it has global recognition because of the blood feuds that still happen in northern Alba...

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Tirana

Posted on September 5, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

On the bus from Berat to Tirana I was glued to the window. I remembered on the bus in to Berat we had passed a house that was designed to look like a boat and I...

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Berat

Posted on September 1, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I boarded the bus in Sarande and was Berat bound. It’s roughly a 250km journey. Though cities in Albania are never far apart as the crow flies, bus travel...

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