Life through the viewfinder: beach

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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Thursday, March 19, 2015

View from balcony

The view from our summer apartment. Shamelessly I'll promote it here as well, in case anyone is visiting Albania this year. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/5509812

Sunday, March 1, 2015

A photo of a photo

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My father taking a photo of me climbing the watchtower.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

As I said in my previous post, here is an old standing villa from the old times, built perhaps during the second world war. Further on the left there is a restored one, painted and with roof semi-fixed. As you see, the beach now is full of apartment buildings, restaurants and hotels, each one different from the next.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Illyria Beach, Durres

Durres city can be seen at the hills feet. If you get the chance, visit it before it's lost, swallowed entirely by new residential buildings.

I climbed a watch tower to take a photo of both sides. What you see is approx. 3.5 km long walk. After the white dome on the second photo is the government residence (for summer vacations) guarded by light military. Then there is Golem, another endless zone/beach of sand and small hotels.

It cannot be seen in these photos but a little bit further the yellow restaurant on the second pic there is the first 5* hotel in Albania, Adriatic Hotel. It was built during communism, in a time where all this beach was empty and there were only a few villas here and there (I'll show you a remaining one tomorrow).

Monday, February 23, 2015

Erosion

This is the view from Durres, Illyria Sector/Beach. The weaves bring a lot of seaweed and no one cleans it before the summer season. The winter has its own magic too. Long walks undisturbed, waves, wind, jogging for kilometers if you like. In case anyone is interested, I rent a small apartment there. I'll do an unbeatable price for people coming from my blog. :)

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Left or Right, it doesn't matter. There is no choice.

After leaving the fortress, we took the road to the seaside to see where the asphalt ended. We passed by a couple of snail farms and a nice restaurant which surprisingly didn't have snail based dishes. If you have a snail farm in front of you, is it difficult to put it in the menu? At least you'll be the first buying hand and the price will be too damn cheap! Anyways, as you can see, the road ended here and the sea was exactly 1 km straight ahead but we didn't went through. We took some photos and turned back home. Bought a sack of apples and potatoes at the guy I mentioned in my previous post. The apples were delicious but half of the potatoes were bad. Them crooks fill the sacks with half bad and half good potatoes, hence the cheap price. My mother had to throw half sack away.

During summer the road is enjoyable and the coast is very long, some 8-10 km with sandy beach. Beware though, there is no infrastructure like shops or restaurants. During high seasons there are canteens (food trucks) and even woody buildings that serve as restaurants but bring food and water with you, just to be safe.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Gjipe Canyon

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I couldn't climb down the canyon for better photos but I will definitely do it sometime in the near future. The canyon leads to one of the most beautiful beaches of the Albanian coast. You can't drive down to the beach but there is a walking path which takes some 30 minutes from the parking place. The island seen in the background is the Greek island of Othonoi.