Outing to Skopje, North Macedonia I knew that Mother Teresa was ethnic Albanian, but hadn’t realised that she’d been born in Skopje. So I suppose that explains why we drove there via the highway to heaven, Mother Teresa Motorway. The Oldies found a campsite on the outskirts of the city in the grounds of a hotel near the motorway. A bit of an odd set-up perhaps, but quite a handy location for visiting the city centre. As the Oldies got…
Outing to Saint Naum Monastery, North Macedonia Can a seagull not get a bit of peace at all? Here we are on a small, quiet campsite by the lake, well outside the city of Pogradec. On the nearby potholed dirt track they laughingly call a road there‘s hardly any traffic. What traffic there is crawls by so slowly that it barely registers on the decibel scale. But what do I have to put up with? Bloody peacocks of all things,…
Skanderbeg National Museum, Krujë With our first campsite in Albania, just outside Fushë-Krujë, we have hit the jackpot. It is situated behind a four-star hotel so the Oldies have the use of the hotel facilities including a beautiful outdoor pool. The hospitality is second to none, with hotel staff coming out regularly to ask the campers if they need anything, and bringing them complementary drinks, snacks and plates of fresh fruit. Her Ladyship was bowled over when the hotel took…
Slovak Paradise National Park Hikes, Spis Castle It’s a miracle! The Oldies are walking on water. They finally bit the bullet and joined the hardy hikers on a couple of gorge walks in the Slovak Paradise National Park. Their first was the Zejmarska roklina gorge near Dedinky. I bet they chose this one because they had been told it was the shortest of the gorge walks. What they only realised afterwards was that ‘shortest’ certainly didn’t mean either easiest or…
The Wooden Road, Snina, Slovakia His Lordship said that he wanted to get out to the wildest, lesser known parts of Slovakia. Well, he hit the spot nicely here. We’re staying in the most north eastern campsite in the country, just outside Snina, close to the Polish and Ukrainian borders. In fact, the Ukraine is less than 20km away. Snina itself is decent sized town with a population of 20,000, but the campsite is located in the middle of a…