I’ve been getting my nails done for a year and a half and they’ve never broken off. My thumbnail was gone before I got to Albania and another one was loose the day I arrived. Flori bought me some super glue and every day I would glue the loose one so that it would not fall off. Miraculously it stayed on to the entire trip until it finally broke off when I grabbed my suitcase in the Daytona Beach airport after I was home. The tip of one broke off during the trip and this was the closest color fingernail Polish I could find! I would have gotten them all fixed before now but my manicurist was in Vietnam.
To top it off, the spring on my wheeler carry-on suitcase’s telescoping retractable handle stuck open and for the entire trip it had to stay extended. But because we were always in a vehicle, it wasn’t that difficult.
CLICK. Call to prayer. we were in a Muslin country.
We were smashed into the new car, along with all our luggage, to take Robert and Robin to the airport. They were heading to Greece for the next month. There is a kiss and fly zone and if you get out within 5 minutes you don’t pay any parking fees. We made it.
We didn’t even get out of the airport before Flori stopped for a cigarette. Interesting that all these little boozes could be obtained at the convenience store.
I discovered Bravo for 220 Leke ($1.80) and tastes like pure pureed fruit — strawberry or peach.
I love the roads in Kosovo!! Apparently when the recent war ended, the United states gave Kosovo a lot of money for rebuilding and they build some beautiful roads . I was never so happy in my life.
A Big Lake in Albania before we get into Kosovo.
The Kosovo border went a lot faster than the rest.
A mosque museum.
More mosques; more museums.
We found this in Pristina, Kosovo. Apparently Madeleine Albright had something to do with the rebuilding of Kosovo.
They were very proud of this newborn statue which I never got the full story about. But I think I look cool in the bottom of the B.
Tom and I ventured out on our own Skopje, North Macedonia.
I love this statue.
The city was mostly damaged by an earthquake except the Albanian section, so that has continued to be an old section with pure Albanians. And the rest of the city is all new and beautiful with big statues.
These maps were in our hotel. A very convenient thing to have.