PC565 Kruje 5/7/10
Summary
- Kruje is another friendly Albanian town with a good location underneath a mountain. In the morning the castle is full of Italian tourists.. so the area is spoiled by too many souvenir shops etc, but 100m away the rest is OK

- People met -Emilio and Natasha who own the last café on right before the castle .. They rented me the room
- Oligar - 17 year old boy ... Sells icecream in the castle
- Tekke man - friendly old guy who shows you around the tekke and hammam west of castle.
- A woman who is a human ecology teacher at Tirana University
- met a guy drinking raki at 10 in the morning
- Strangeboy
- Na-I’m - Muslim owner of the carpentary factory
- Nafli - grandmother who's daughter lives in Oxford
- Elton a student who owns the shop at the south end of town

Some Great photos of Kruje

Sunday - Came to Korja

- In like it much more than Tirana as the people are very friendly .... I am sleeping on a classroom floor for 500 lek.

- I came with Pascal. We met some other Swiss tourist I knew so went for coffee. I asked and yet again in Albania was very lucky below the café was an empty school room.


kruja_tunnel kruja_newtown
kruja_view



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Mon - walk south
- Strangeboy took me the carpentary factory I guess his brother works there.
kruja_door_factory
Workers at Na-im's Carpentary factory

http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/history/html/st_cross.html Winchester `Wayfarers Dole.

Tue -
- walked to castle and old streets again, then I walked south east to base of hill. Coming back I cut to huge abandoned tunnel complex - The entrance tunnel cuts straight in so I could see there are many rooms, but I had no torch.

Walked north - map says there is a spring, but Ii guess I didn't get that far

Thu- went to Albanopolis, AKA Zgërdhesh
Good Albanoplis Info 1, Good Albanoplis Info 2
- You get off the furgon at Halil and walk 2Km ..turn left after the bridge, but before the Mosque



Wed - c




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