Entries from 'project 365'
Day 155
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/500 s
- Focal Length: 11mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Berat is called a town of a thousand windows and I assume I don’t have to explain why. Today I was grouped by an old man who couldn’t speak a lick of english and apparently just wanted to shake my hand. Then on top of the castle was given yet another free tour by an…
Day 154
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/200 s
- Focal Length: 11mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
The reason I made the trip to Shkodër was to take a ferry across Komani Lake from Komani to Fierzë. The problem when doing this trip is that there is no reliable information about the busses to and from the ferry and the ferry itself. The 2 hour ferry ride is supposed to be one of the…
Day 153
- Aperture: f/9
- ISO: 500
- Shutter Speed: 1/50 s
- Focal Length: 110mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
I am now in the small Albanian city of Shkodra for a night or two. After a walk around the city I rounded up a couple of other people from the hostel to take a walk up to the Castle to watch the sunset. At the castle we met Flaures (pronounced Flowers). He was walking his…
Day 152
- Aperture: f/9
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/1250 s
- Focal Length: 15mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
During the Communist times in Albania the government built over 700,000 of these bunkers all over the country. Some have now been re-purposed as homeless and Animal shelters, canvases for artists, Cafe’s and even giant pot plants (when dug out and turned upside down). However you will mostly find them scattered throughout the countryside, in…
Day 151
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/640 s
- Focal Length: 32mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Walkathon 5 billion. I think I circumnavigated central Tirana about 5 times today just taking in the city and people watching, although people seemed to be watching me as much as I was watching them. I had my photo taken with about 15 people today, plus with a huge group of school kids, probably even…
Day 150
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/400 s
- Focal Length: 200mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
On day 150 I woke up at the crack of dawn to make sure my temporary travel buddy Lina got on the bus safe and sound. Lina lives only 80km or so from the Albanian Border but until 2 days ago she had never crossed it. It has been awesome exploring yet another city/country with…
Day 149
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/1250 s
- Focal Length: 12mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
After a bit of a sleep in and some confusion over the time difference Lina and I went out to explore Gjirokastër. We had our breakfast at the hotel then headed up towards the old town and the castle on foot. On the way we made a few small detours into parts of the old town…
Day 148
- Aperture: f/2.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/100 s
- Focal Length: 3.7mm
- Camera: GT-N7100
- Location: 39° 40′ 4″ N 20° 51′ 25″ E
R.I.P. Pablo. Today I had to leave behind the best travel buddy a traveler could ask for. About 4 months ago after leaving my old travel water bottle on a beach in Portugal I spent 3 days hunting for a Spanish Bota (wine drinking vessel). I finally found Pablo hanging out the front of a…
Day 147
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/400 s
- Focal Length: 11mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Today I took a walk to see the Perama Caves in the next village over from Ioannina which are the biggest in the Bulkan region. The cave was pretty impressive, one room was pretty massive and some of the stalactites and stalagmites were named according to what they resemble as per every other cave I…
Day 146
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/320 s
- Focal Length: 28mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Winter is coming. So today I started planning my escape from the European freeze. I also bought myself a jacket and got slightly lost in the streets of Ioannina in the rain.