Last city-view visit to Ohrid, which Steve & I visited already more than three months ago. I did edit things down, but there really is so much to see and enjoy there. In full view it’ll pass faster, or just skip it since I put so many photos in, sorry.
Because small wonders surround me in the summer (and lead to a backlog which means I’ll be showing you beautiful small things well into next winter or beyond, I’ve decided to post any remaining unposted images that contain small wonders from my May week of magnificence along the shore’s Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid all in this post. (Probably best views in ‘full view’ mode since there are so many of these little beauties. Sorry: I just love beauty!)
Let’s hope the above sign near the base of the Mt Dajti cable-car in lovely Tirana remains largely anachronistic :-). I’ve gone ahead and popped all Tirana photos with anything vaguely sign-like into this post. So you’re seeing several photos from inside the claustrophobic former command-bunker near the cable car base, which is now the one of two museums based inside ex-bunkers, and of Steve standing atop a bunker-like miniature golf hole at the top of Mt. Dajti. We sensed that Albania is very happy that now one can, more or less, make fun of the bunkers rather than depleting the national budget building them. I can think of quite a few things I wish the current US govt weren’t spending our tax dollars on, and several folks getting very rich indeed on the spoils of their current power and influence, in ways that feel much more like the Albania of old, than the US I grew up in.
…and then, of course, there were the 10 days Steve and I spent on and around the shores of Lake Ohrid, from which a couple photos or more might still be shared…
Photos of the lovely rolling and mountainous paths around the village of Trpejca, where Steve and I spent such a lovely 10 days already three months ago, yikes how times flies…
Along the shore of Lake Ohrid lies this Bay of Bones museum, reconstructing a prehistoric village built over the water whose remains were found at the lake floor and some of which now sit in an on-land museum behind us as we look at the walkway / bridge across the water that takes us out to the immersive museum. Below more photos of the houses and views from the reconstructed village.
The pyramids of Giza it’s certainly not, but Steve and I were both quite happy that we disregarded the guidebook’s casual dismissal of this “pyramid of Tirana,” on our last-afternoon stroll around town.
(so much world, so little time....) 