Ready for a new adventure!
2024年4月6日, ルクセンブルク ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Departure at 1.30am for Charleroi Airport.
2 hours later!
2024年4月6日, ベルギー ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
New airport unlocked!
2024年4月6日, ベルギー ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Flying over the Alps and along the Balkan Adriatic coast.🌄🌊
Tirana-Albania! 🇦🇱
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
After 8 hours of travel, I am in Tirana!
Skanderbeg Square
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
The square is huge (40,000 square km) and is dedicated to the Albanian national hero.
Many buildings overlook the square (including the beautiful National History Museum and the National Operaもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 Tirana - Et'hem Bey Mosque
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The Et'hem Bey Mosque is located in the same square.
Completed around 1800, il was closed for many years during the Communist dictatorship.
In 1991 almost 10.000 person entered again to pray,もっと詳しく
🇦🇱 Lunch with local food
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Qofte (spiced lamb meatballs) and boiled liver in a very tasty cheese sauce😋.
To drink a very refreshing local beer and an amazing coffe (super good, italian style).
🇦🇱 Tirana city center
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
The city center is extremely clean, tidy, full of restaurants and tourists.
Almost everywhere shops also accept the Euro and many locals speak Italian, a consequence of the great migration to Italyもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 BunkArt 2: Anti-atomic bunker ☢️
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Dictator Hoxha was terrified of an invasion by NATO, neighboring Yugislavia or the USSR. As a result he ordered the construction of over 200,000 bunkers nationwide, some of which still exist and areもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 The funny traffic lights of Tirana
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
The traffic lights in Tirana are very paricular.
The red light is a red "T" and also the traffic light pole lights up red or green.
The avenue in the photo leads to the Pyramid of Hoxha, the nextもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 Pyramid of Tirana
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
This concret Pyramid was built in honor of Hoxha 3 years after the death of the dictator. The cost was enormous, especially for a small country like Albania in a great economic crisis at theもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 Tirana - National Stadium
2024年4月6日〜7日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The super modern (2019) stadium of Tirana.
Inside there is also a bar, where it is possible to drink a good cocktail for just €7.
Inside the stadium is full of shirts of Roma players, team thatもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 Tirana Modern & old buildings
2024年4月6日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
The curious thing about Tirana is the coexistence side by side of super modern skyscrapers and historic buildings from the 19th century.
The city is constantly expanding (especially around theもっと詳しく
🇦🇱 Tirana - Car rented and ready to go
2024年4月7日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
3 high-school friends, one Skoda Fabia, many countries to visit.
🇦🇱 ➡️🇽🇰 Driving among mountains
2024年4月7日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Beautiful snow-capped mountains and rivers.
The streets are very new and relaxing, but are full of people crossing the highway lanes on foot and walking along the sides 🤯 so it is important to payもっと詳しく
🇦🇱➡️🇽🇰 Crossing my first land border
2024年4月7日, アルバニア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
For me this is the first border that I cross not by plane (excluding intra-European ones).
And the first border and stamp in the passport is that of a country with limited recognition, Kosovo,もっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Prizren: 2nd bigest city of Kosovo
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Super nice city, the center is quite small but it is a good for stopping and lunch during the Tirana/Pristina travel.
Many had many turists, the internal streets are not paved and the city has manyもっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Prizren - Sinan Pasha Mosque
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Another super beautiful Mosque in the center of Prizren.
🇽🇰 Prizren lunch
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Excellent lunch with local food in a local restaurant.
Very tasty cheeses as a starter, chicken in tartar sauce for me and stuffed peppers for my friends.
As usual in this part of Europe, amazingもっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Prizren and its military statues
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
The city if full of statues representing the heroes of Kosovar independence.
Kosovo is the second youngest state in the world (2008), and for this reason their heroes wear bulletproof vests and haveもっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Pristina: the Capital of Kosovo
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
After lunch we moved towards Pristina.
In Pristina casually we parked our car near one of the buildings where EULEX forces operate.
EULEX is the largest diplomatic/military operation ever conductedもっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Pristina - The view from our room
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
From the window of our room it is possible to see the famous national library, realized in brutalist style.
The squares of the Balkan capitals are surprising.
Large, full of children and people,もっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Pristina: Radio Kosova building
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
In the city center the radio building stands out: on top of the building the logo of the UCK (National Liberation Army), the Kosovar flag and a writing on freedom.
🇽🇰 Pristina - Cathedral of M. Teresa.
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Even if the majority of the population is Muslim (95%) and only a minority is Catholic (2.5%), in the center there is a beautiful church (partially under maintainance) dedicated to Mother Teresa ofもっと詳しく
🇽🇰 Pristina - National Library
2024年4月7日, コソボ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The buiding of the National Library is considered by many people as the ugliest builing in Europe.
It was realized by a Croatian/Yogoslavian Architect and was inaugurated in 1982 (when Kosovo wasもっと詳しく