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My Travels: May 2021 – Sepetember 2022
The First and Final Picture of My Travels Today, as I begin writing this in a cafe in the centre of Vilnius, marks my last day of continuous travelling before heading back to London to begin my masters next week. I’ve been travelling for almost sixteen months, and it feels slightly strange today that this…
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Istanbul, Turkey
It’s impossible for your first impression of Istanbul not to be the sheer size of the city. Having landed at Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, it took me 50 minutes by car to reach my accommodation in the Beyoğlu district of central Istanbul. However, for the entire journey, the road is surrounded on all sides…
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Kotor, Montenegro
If I am completely honest until I arrived in Tirana I had never heard of Kotor. However, pretty much every person I met in Albania who was travelling south through the Balkans recommended Kotor in front of pretty much any other place they had visited, including the more well-known Adriatic destinations of Dubrovnik or Split.…
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Albania
So first up Albania or specifically Tirana, the capital. Before travelling to Albania I feel people either know nothing or very little beyond its perceived poverty relative to the rest of Europe and the Albania Mafia. To some extent this is true, around Albania car graveyards will be seen, many with British number plates, if…
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