Postcards from abroad
Lake Ohrid has two types of trout which are not found anywhere else. We had the larger one, salma letnica, which apparently resembles sea trout, for lunch, our best since coming to Albania (and we have had a lot of good food). Here’s lunch: It seems that our earlier food blog was one of the… Continue reading More food
After a stop for cherries and apricots beside the road, a poppy field photograh opportunity and a rather futile hour looking for Illyrian royal tombs on extremely unsuitable roads, we arrived on the shores of Lake Ohrid (pronounced Ochrid with the ch as in loch, I understand). The tectonic lake is shared with North Macedonia… Continue reading Lake Ohrid
We walked around the old, cobbled streets of Elbasan, looking for one of the oldest mosques in Albania, the King’s mosque (1492) which we found shut, unfortunately: We moved on to St Mary’s Church (where the person mentioned in my previous blog was buried), only to have the peace disturbed by a horde of French… Continue reading The French get in our way …
Here’s something for an erudite pub quiz! Elbasani (our stop for today) is the birth (and death) place of Kostandin Kristoforidhi 1826-1895. He worked as a lexicographer and grammarian, translating the New Testament into both dialects of Albanian, Gheg and Tosk. But he was kicked out of the London-based Bible Society in 1874 because he… Continue reading For lexicographers and radical adult educators – skip if that’s not your thing!
We loved our stay in Kosovo - and, given the success of our only food blog, thought you would like to see this morning’s delicious breakfast, prepared for us in the restaurant of our hotel (more a restaurant with rooms than a hotel - but wonderfully comfortable, nevertheless). The breads were freshly made on a… Continue reading Breakfast in Kosovo and over-the-top seaside Italian palace in Albania