Hello again ! So, we had a lovely day in Berat seeing the sights, there was a big castle complex where the people still live and of course, we ventured out that evening for round 2 of trying to eat out in Albania ! This time, we went to a grill restaurant - I ordered the grilled chicken, James the piglet ribs and we ordered some grilled vegetables and croquettes to accompany this delight. Soooooo . . . . some pork 'rissoles' arrived - hmmm we thought, not quite...

Hello all Well Albania has been an interesting time - a real mix of good and 'bad' - it's been fun to experience such a different country again. As with my previous blog, the driving is particularly crazy - the main rules of the road appear to be : 1. Drive whilst on the telephone at all times. You can also smoke, eat or hold a baby on the drivers lap in addition to being on the phone - hands on the steering wheel are an option but not a necessity. 2. Hoot, to...

Hello all Haven't had the internet for a while, so here's an update of what we have been up to . . . . from Mostar we had a very rainy drive through Bosnia and up to Sarajevo - we stopped just outside Sarajevo at the Tunnel Museum - in the Yugoslav war the city of Sarajevo was surrounded on 3 sides and lay under seige for over 3 years, the 4th 'side' was Sarajevo airport which was declared 'safe' by the UN - the residents outside of the airport built a tunnel u...

Hello All We found a lovely campsite, right on a beach just outside Split in Croatia and had 2 days of lovely sunshine, shorts back on at last ! Split is a really nice city, with an unusual old town which is all within the walls of the Diocletians Palace, there were some great Roman ruins to wander around and we also went to Croatians great sculpter, Ivan Mestrovics, museum which was slightly hindered by a lot of school children doing a project there with singi...

Me again ! We've had a couple of lovely days in Zadar, it's a beautiful 'old town' with old walls, lots of Roman architecture and some interesting sights. We went to a museum of glass, which had some beautiful Tiffany lights. It also had a live glass blowing demonstration, there was no-one there when we went to see it so James, being his usual self, opens up a side door (no-one seemed to be around) so he moaned loudly about the fact there was supposed to be a de...