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2 travel blogs written in Vlore
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16. September 2008 | en
We woke up to dodgey weather, and since we had been riding since Istanbul without any days off we decided to stay the extra night and hope the rain would pass us. Vlore is a nice little beach town, and the day turned sunny and made for a pleasant stop. My brother is getting married in Cuba in April of 2009 and so we know we have 2 weeks of beach vacation coming up then, so we have not been taking advantage of the beaches on this trip!
Tags:
Vlore
albania
Map:
N 40° 45.404
E 19° 48.390
Created at: 20. September 2008
Let It Rain
15. September 2008 | en
We escaped the beach by seconds. Literal seconds. We woke up to a gray day, and we decided to stay in the tent and read and relax. We debated staying another night (we had not had rain since Bulgaria and we were not looking forward to confronting it in honesty) but we had no food and no extra water. So it was decided, Patrick would drive both bikes halfway again, and I would take over where I had managed to get to the previous night.
I have never been so scared in my life. I actually closed my eyes and prayed to god as we bounced, bopped, and BANGED our way up the hill. If feeling it the night before disturbed me, SEEING it the next morning made me wish I never suggested we try to reach the beach.
But we survived, ;) and I drove the rest of the way up sans dropping, AND as soon as we got up we literally watched the clouds roll in and drown us.
So we never escaped the drowning, we just escaped the part where it happened on that horrendous road, OR being rained out on the beach.
The rain refused to stop however, and so in Vlore we checked into a hotel.
Tags:
Vlore
albania
Map:
N 40° 45.404
E 19° 48.390
Created at: 20. September 2008
Vehicle to this place: Motorbike
Logbooks written by Fernweh
Regen
14. September 2008 | de
Wir wachten Trommeln der Regentropfen auf der Zeltplane auf. Der erste Regen seit fast zwei Monaten! Eine Lücke in den Wolken nutzen wir zum zusammenpacken. Doch dann kamen sie die Sturmböen. Eine schwarze Regenwand peitschte heran und brachte sintflutartige Regengüsse und Gewitter. Wenn schon denn schon. Wir quälten uns über die Bergstrasse bis wir in Vlore eine Pension fanden. Hier werden wir zwei Tage bleiben und auf besseres Wetter warten. Zeit zum Kleider waschen und unser Blog auf Vordermann zu bringen.
Tags:
Vlore
Albanien
Map:
N 40° 45.404
E 19° 48.390
Created at: 15. September 2008
Written by Fernweh
