Day Two: Albania (Elbasan – Shelcan – Berat – Apollonia – Vlora) Early next morning after breakfast (which I have to say was quite unimpressive and this proved to be rather the norm at many of the hotels in Albania), we transferred…
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Day One: Albania (Tirana & Elbasan) I was so happy to be flying from Tampa to Tirana with only one connection (in Frankfurt) on one of the recently inaugurated Lufthansa flights but, as luck would have it, got delayed arriving…
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Thanks to Bram Stocker and the pop-culture image of Dracula the vampire (and all his present-day reincarnations), Transylvania is the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning travel to Romania. The Bran Castle (a.k.a Dracula’s Castle) seems to be…
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For many, the name of Khiva – one of the most historic cities in Uzbekistan, evokes images of exhausting caravan journeys across the desert and exotic markets where merchants from faraway places once congregated to sell their wares – from…
