Tag Archives: Travelling By Train Across The Balkans
Balkans Tour 2017 – Tirana
Continuing my look back of my 2017 Balkans Tour – how did Tirana 2017 compare with Tirana 2007? We had just arrived by marathon bus journey from Sarande in Southern Albania and dilapidated taxi to our hotel from Tirana’s run down bus station…….. Tirana We found our hotel to be delightful and soon forgot our […]
Proud Pristina
A look back on my 2017 Balkan tour as featured in my book ‘Travelling By Train Across The Balkans‘, today featuring the capital of Kosovo. Pristina, Kosovo We had purposely booked a hotel close to the train station as we would be departing on the 07.10 next day. It had claimed to be just 200 […]
My Favourite Travel Photos – 6 to 10
Continuing my favourite travel photos with my second favourite batch of five. The Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos In all my travels I have never seen a sunset as lovely as the one in Luang Prabang. On both my 2010 & 2015 visits I lingered for over and hour at a time to capture the […]
Friday Photo – Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, Albania
Gjergj Kastrioti, known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanian nobleman and military commander who led a rebellion in the mid 15th Century against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. He is revered as a national hero having a museum dedicated to him, a multitude of statues and […]
My Books – Discount Promotion
To mark the imminent release of my crime fiction book, ‘Drip by Drip’, those nice people at Amazon are running a promotion on my two existing ebooks on the Hornbill Publishing label from today and for the next 7 days. Wilbur’s Travels Part One – Travelling By Train Across The Balkans, is discounted to £1.99/$1.99 […]
Sunday Photo – My Forthcoming 3rd Book
Cambodian Drama I am currently going through the editing process of my latest book, which will be released on Amazon soon. The ebook cover is ready and is this weeks’ Sunday Photo. It is my first foray into fiction writing and it follows an average English couple who unwittingly get mixed up in a terrifying […]
Hornbill Publishing – My New Website
To coincide with the imminent release of my third book, a fictional novel entitled ‘Drip by Drip’, I am absolutely delighted to launch my new publishing website – http://www.hornbillpublishing.co.uk. The label will initially feature my own works only, the number of which I am actively aiming to increase. In time I hope to be able […]
Monday Morning Blues – Lake Ohrid Fisherman, North Macedonia
I visited Lake Ohrid in 2006. The place was legendary for its rare albino peacock, which was living in the grounds of a monastery by the lake. Such was the rarity of the bird that the town of Ohrid contained countless postcards, giftware, posters etc. of the red-eyed beast. We went in search of him, […]
Friday Photo
I visited Split in October 2012 on a rail trip around the Balkans. We started the journey in the excellent Croatian capital Zagreb and then took an overnight train to the Dalmatian Coast to the wonderful city of Split, where we were met with Autumnal blue skies and a temperature of 25 degrees.
