Skopje to Tirana

What a night! Bus departed pretty well on time at 7:00pm last night. We arrived in Tirana at 5:00am. It was a large modern bus but they stopped just about every hour, either at another town's bus pickup or just to have a smoke. and it was not just a 5 minute stop, it was 15-20 minutes. The stopped only 100 meters from the main square. We had booked into "Freddys Hostel" and his web site gave us pretty good directions. Here they are:

"From Skenderbeg square follow the street the horse and rider are facing between the brilliant mosaic fronted National History Museum (on left) and Tirana International hotel (on right, probably Tirana's tallest building) keep to the right side of the street and take the first right at the back of the Tirana International Hotel where the small electricity station is. Follow this unsealed road turning left at the end at the brand new apartment building. This is Bardhok Biba St. Follow this 198 of my steps (i am 197cms tall, you do the math) along the road where you will see the sign for Freddy's Hostel on the corner. The entrance to number 75 is through the greenery, up 7 steps with the door on the left. And exhale."

We expected we would be sleeping on the steps until they opened, but when we arrived there was someone outside, Freddy's father I think. Anyhow he let us in and then took me down to checkout a room. Looked pretty good to me (anything would have looked good after that bus trip), so we said ok, had a shower and then hit the sack. At about 11:00am Freddy knocked on the door, and said he had a better room for us and to come down and have some breakfast. He showed us a large room that that had it's own shower and toilet, tv, fridge and balcony over the street. Yep that will do us just fine.

After moving in to our new room we went for a walk around the town.

13 Apr 2009