Both above and below, you are seeing a piece of the Berlin Wall, next to one of the more than 750,00 or so bunkers built with Albanian state funds during the Hoxha administration. Ah, the things our governments do with our tax dollars…
In the park area around the top of the Mt Dajti Cable cars near Tirana was this peacock showing off. During some of my LA-based years, I heard from friends who lived on the PV peninsula that the feral peacocks up there would now and then scratch up a shiny expensive sports car, because when they saw their reflection in the shiny surface, their attack – the – rival instincts were activated.
Tirana: parliament building to the right, main mosque to the left. Steve pondered what the contrast between the two might indicate. Amongst images in the gallery below is the monument to Albania’s independence from the Ottoman Empire.
We’re back to Tsar Samuel’s Fortress, at the top of a lovely hill overlooking Ohrid City. The passage of time is evident in the nature of this building, and in the fact that it’s nearly two months since I first showed you this lovely location and well over a month since I returned to my regular work life in A’dam. The photos we showed in that prior post came from our first visit, when the fortress was closed. As you’ll see, on the day we could go in, the weather was a good deal moodier :-).
All from in and around Skanderberg square in the center of Tirana. Amazing that it’s already a month ago that we finished those lovely two weeks in the Balkans.
Here you’ve got it as vapor in the sky, solid on the ground and liquid down in the lake. Pretty amazing, H2O, really. And a correction: the whole mountain is Galicica. The peak behind me in the photo above is what’s called Magaro, a subset of Galicica. And in the gallery below, you’ll be seeing some of Lake Prespa as well as good ol’ Ohrid which we got to know better.
(so much world, so little time....) 