• Leonardo Floridia
  • Leonardo Floridia

Balkan car trip 🚘

2 highschool friends and a white Skoda Fabia
7 countries (🇦🇱, 🇽🇰, 🇲🇰, 🇷🇸, 🇧🇦, 🇭🇷, 🇲🇪) and 1750 KM
9 days (6 to 14 April 2024)
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  • 🇦🇱 Lezhë - Good food & location

    April 13, 2024 in Albania ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    We had a delicious fish-based lunch.
    Pasta with seafood, marinated anchovies, octopus salad and grilled river bass. As always, an excellent coffee with view to end lunch.
    Moreover all the waiters speak and understand Italian and are in love with Italian culture and people.

    The price of all this? Less than 20 euros per person!
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  • 🇦🇱 The end of this trip

    April 13, 2024 in Albania ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    To end the trip we decided to have dinner in the same place where we had our first lunch 8 days ago.

    This time, however, the place is full of tourists and locals singing, eating and dancing. In the center of the open-air restaurant a group of musicians plays local music and revisited Italian songs.

    For dinner we had the same dishes as in the previous lunch: boiled liver in cheese sauce and qofte (shredded meatballs)
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  • 🇱🇺 Time to go back home & summary

    April 14, 2024 in Belgium ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    A sum up of the holiday?

    - I visited my first limited recognition state (Kosovo);
    - I got the first stamp in my passport and I crossed a land border for the first time in my life;
    - For the first time I have been in a country where the majority of population is Muslim (Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania);
    - For the first time I have visited a country with Cyrillic alphabet (Serbia, Macedonia, partly Bosnia and Montenegro).

    I am really surprised by the tranquility, safety and cleanliness of these countries that didn't even exist until less than 30 years ago.
    In particular, for safety and cleanliness, Belgrade and Pristina beat European cities like Brussels by far.

    The most beautiful city is certainly Belgrade, but the recent past of cities like Tirana, Pristina and Sarajevo makes them equally fascinating.

    The natural beauties of Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia are incredible. The green mountains, rivers, lakes, coves and sea left us amazed.

    What would I change if possible? I would stay 1 full day in Sarajevo and I would not go to Podgorica.
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    Trip end
    April 14, 2024