Lake Skandar, divided between M.negro and Albania..in the sunshine!

Skhodër ciry centre, one of the oldest towns in Albania, on the edge of Lake Skandar

Rozafa Castle, ancient fortress above the city

Legend tells a woman was bricked up alive in the walls for good luck..whose??

Views over lake, river, city, mountains..

The castle is big - Illyrian, Slav, Ottoman, Venetian, Austrian, Italian, who wasn't here

Skhodër, Albania

9 lipca 2022, Albania ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

Today was our American-style luxury Balkan rush - from Podgorica, possibly the only flat bit of Montenegro, to Skopje in North Macedonia via Albania and Kosovo. Dizzying borders, flags, languages, religions, historical animosities and anomalies - a regional stew of nationalism, brotherhood, Great Powers meddling, suffering, corruption, hope, warm people and huge mountains. Our Montenegrin driver, Milo, has a Croat passport, international dreams and interesting tidbits: despite leaving rump Yugoslavia, spats with big brother Serbia and EU ambitions, cultural affinity wins out - when Montenegro plays football against Serbia, many of the 600 000 Montenegrins root for Belgrade...Albania is somewhere utterly foreign, non Slav, for and of itself on the other side of the lake and the mountains... Czytaj więcej

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