Tag Archives: Blue Eye

Unirii Square, Timișoara, Romania

Euro 2020 Rest Day 2 – Non-Qualifying Nations – Iceland, Romania & Albania

24 nations qualified for Euro 2020 and according to whose list you consider as accurate, there are between 44 (United Nations figure) and 51 (Wikipedia) countries in Europe. Here are three more that didn’t make it to the finals. Iceland The tiny nation of less than 5 million people qualified last time and actually knocked […]

Sarande, Albania

Balkans Tour 2017 – Corfu to Southern Albania

As I continue to remain in the UK for the next month or two at least, I am reliving my 2017 Balkans tour. It started with a flight to Corfu……. Corfu, Greece It seemed that I was the only easyJet passenger en route to the Greek Island who would not be staying for a week […]

Monday Morning Blues – Blue Eye, Albania

This week’s MMB photo comes from Southern Albania. Close to the coastal town of Sarandë sits a very unusual spring. It’s name is Syri i Kaltër, translated as Blue Eye. It indeed does resemble a blue eye as you can see. Nobody knows how deep the spring is, but it is deeper than 50 metres […]

Balkans Tour 2017 – Corfu to Southern Albania

It seemed that I was the only easyJet passenger en route to the Greek Island who would not be staying for a week or two’s sea & sunshine. The word around me was focusing on best beaches, location of the best full English and biggest issues to face (such as full English being unavailable in […]

Sunday Photo – Blue Eye, Albania