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  • 2009 | say it slowly tour,  albania,  europe,  tirana

    Say it slowly tour Day 14: Tirana, there is no such place

    September 5, 2009 /

    For dinner i went looking for Serenata, recommended by the Lonely Planet. I ended up with Pizza. To cut a long story short, it goes like this: stray cats, stray dogs, long walk, confusing map, wrong turns, wrong side steets, asking for directions, “It is closed”. Then find pizza.

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  • 2009 | say it slowly tour,  albania,  europe,  kosovo,  pristina,  tirana

    Say it slowly tour Day 13: Pristina and Tirana, italian efficiency, and no luggage

    September 5, 2009 /

    Was briefly reunited with my luggage at Pristina Airport, long enough to carry it over to the departures terminal to queue for my flight to Tirana. Belle Air are an efficient Italian company, i.e nothing like an efficient German company. The checking desk was a shambles, but at leastm the didn’t charge me for the extra couple of kilos. Had to run to customs, then skipped to the queue for my flight. Showed boarding pass, was then hustled into an outside greenhouse area (it was around 30 in Pristina today) with the other passengers to sweat some. The plane sat about 100 metres off on the tarmac, but would they…

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