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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Dubrovnik – Tirana
Montenegro driving wasn’t a piece of cake. I went to bed early so I wouldn’t become tired on my drive from Dubrovnik in southern Croatia to the capital of Albania – Tirana. The coastal landscape in Montenegro is beautiful but the roads can be tricky. There are no highways and the signs are bad or [...]
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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Split – Dubrovnik
No more highway south of Split. :) There is one under construction but most roads went back to basic so one had to know what foot is where… and where the other cars are at.
I think this was somewhere north of Omiš, a coastal city south of Split.
I stopped the car several times to take pictures of the [...]
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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Ljubljana – Split
As I entered Croatia (Hrvatska in Croatian), I had no expectations, only certain images in my head. I knew that Croatia has been ruled by others throughout history – first declaring independence from the Austria-Hungary empire in 1918, then joining Yugoslavia in 1943 and declaring independence again in 1991.
Since then, the Republic of Croatia has grown into [...]
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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Graz – Ljubljana.
Years ago, I read an article in a travel magazine about cobble-stone streets and cosy cafés in Ljubljana. I said to myself that I would go there - sit in a cobble-stone street and have coffee. I’ve always had a romantic image of the capital of Slovenia, and I wasn’t dissapointed. What a very, very nice city.
As [...]
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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Lüneburg – Graz
Next stop: Graz, Austria. I stayed with my friend Lindita, originally from Tirana, Albania. I’ve visited Austria before and seen the cities of Linz, Vienna and Salzburg so I thought it was finally time to see Graz. Lindita showed me around and we had a nice time catching up since I last saw her in [...]
Roadtrip to Kosovo: Växjö – Lüneburg
My father waved goodbye in the rearview mirror as I drove off at 6am in the morning on June 11th 2010. My stomach turned upside down with excitement. I was finally on my way and a feeling of total confidence and secureness mixed with the question: “What am I doing?!”.
I catched a ferry from Malmö in southern [...]
Växjö – Prishtina. 3000 km+
In Croatia. Dubrovnik in the background.
I was originally going to fly. Just check in and letting somebody else be in charge would be making it easy for myself… Until one day when I realised that it would better to have my own car considering how much I had planned to move around once I’d arrived. I would [...]
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Kosovo countdown
Packing… preparing…
My dog has everything under control and makes sure no one attacks the vehicle…
…while I do fun stuff like vacuuming the front seat. :)
Photos: Courtesy Anna Wiman.
Stockholm weekend
I spontaneously decided to pay the capital a visit while on stand-by in Sweden : )
Stockholm is absolutely breath-taking in the summer time.
The busy hall at Stockholm Central Station.
People having picnics and enjoying the evening in Vasaparken.
I attended the annual meeting of the newly started Svensk-Albanska ungdomsföreningen (Swedish-Albanian Youth Association), an initiative made up by young Albanian diaspora that I [...]
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Roadtrip to Kosovo: Tirana – Prishtina