Category: Albania

  • The Albanian Riviera

    The Albanian Riviera

    After over a year of worry and increasingly difficult driving, we had finally had a definitive diagnosis of BigMog’s problem, organised a new clutch to be driven across Europe from the UK and had it fitted by Mercedes in Albania. We were 100% sure that we needed the new clutch. We had been about 60%…

  • A Momentus Week in Tirane

    A Momentus Week in Tirane

    We had thought it was too good to be true that our clutch would arrive without any hiccups but when the courier stopped communicating with us altogether we weren’t sure just how bad the situation was. The last we had heard was when the clutch arrived at his Mum’s house in Kent Calling him from…

  • Meandering Across Albania

    Meandering Across Albania

    We had just spent a fabulous few days in Theth and were loving Albania, but BigMog’s clutch/gearbox problems were now getting too serious to ignore. We were going to have to bite the bullet very soon and spend a lot of money sorting him out. We were resigned to whatever the cost was to put…

  • A Blue Eye of Wonder

    A Blue Eye of Wonder

    Montenegro had been a series of highs and lows. The highs had been lovely – Lovcen, Cetinje and parts of the coast. But the lows had us seriously questioning the viability of full-time travel in this part of the world. They say you learn a lot about yourself when you travel but I never felt…