Sophistivacation

Today marks the end of a fabulous holiday, but at least the fun is not quite over as we have a few more days off work. The flight wasn't until 2pm, so we had a lazy breakfast and packed our cases. We still hadn’t eaten the strange flavour of crisps we had bought the previous day, so rather than take them with us, we tried them as we were waiting for the taxi to take us back to the airport. “Tzatziki” is basically sour cream and chive in disguise, but “Oregano” really is oregano; they were both so salty, that we didn’t finish either of them. The taxi arrived early, and we decided just to go to the airport. The drive was only 20 minutes and we were there well ahead of check-in opening. About 2.5 hours before the flight, check-in opened and we dropped off our luggage, then passed through security in 8 minutes! Totally different from Istanbul Airport. We headed straight for the airport lounge, and enjoyed the peace and tranquillity until our flight was called. It was also the last oppo...

It’s our last day in Albania, but we are off on a tour to visit the cities of Berat and Durrës. The tour was actually supposed to be yesterday, but we agreed to change it as it would allow us to watch the football and relax a bit. Bledar picked us up at 8.30am, although I didn’t get the notification until 8.13am when we were on our way to breakfast. We had the quickest cup of coffee and snack, but made it just in time. There were two other people on the tour, an Australian woman who lived in Switzerland and a guy from Singapore who seemed to have visited every country under the sun and was wearing bright orange socks with sandals and a headband. The guy from Singapore was really interesting, but the woman, I don’t even know where to start; I have never met anyone more annoyingly loud and rude in all my life! We weren’t going to let that ruin the tour though! The first stop was Berat, but we did stop at a little cafe overlooking a lake so the guide could have an espresso and a stretch (...