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Category: Europe

Albania’s South

7. July 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

The south is the most beautiful part of Albania. Between Vlorë, Berat and Sarandë there’s the sea, mountains, villages, national parks and beaches.

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The abandoned Power Plant in Fier

26. June 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

The power plant in Fier was the largest combined heat and power plant in all of Albania. Operations ceased more then ten years ago, and now it is rotting away.

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Albanias Bunkers

11. June 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

Albania’s dictator Hoxha ordered the construction of 750,000 bunkers to protect the country. About 170,000 were built. Most are still in place and rotting away.

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Krujë, the home of Skanderbeg

4. June 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

In the town of Krujë everything is about Albanian national hero Skanderbeg. Not just the museum, but even the mountains are named after him 🙂

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A Pyramid for the dictator

28. May 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

Anyone staying in Tirana can hardly ignore the dictators’ pyramid. From 1988 to 1991 the former Enver Hoxha Museum had “more or less everything Enver Hoxha had ever touched” on display.

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Tirana

21. May 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

Until almost 100 years ago Tirana only had a few thousand inhabitants, but under the Communist Regime it grew to half a million people.

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Welcome to… Albania

14. May 2019 Simon Albania Leave a comment

Albania doesn’t make the list of the most popular travel destinations. But we had no problems finding enough to do for two weeks!

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From Locarno to the Cardada Cimetta

19. April 2019 Simon Switzerland Leave a comment

Recently I was traveling across Switzerland and and made a little detour to Locarno. In April 2019 an unexpected cold front brought half a meter of fresh to the mountains, and so everything turned into a bit of a snow hike…;)

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Inside the Odessa Catacombs

27. February 2019 Simon Ukraine 2 comments

The biggest attraction in the ukrainian city of Odessa is not located on the surface, but below the ground. Welcome to the largest catacomb network in the world!

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