Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Part I - Leaving for Europe

Leaving for Europe


Date: Friday, Jul 07, 2006
Place: Taipei, Taiwan


My flight leaves at 8pm, so there is still time to do some shopping around at daytime.

Well, what happen is that I haven't even made any hotel reservation for my first stop (Athens) because I am not certain about my exact plan yet (and didn't tell my parents about that either...Sh...). After landing in Athens, I may just head directly to Corfu Island (just outside of Albania in the Ionian Sea of Greece) or maybe heading directly to Tirana, Albania. There is not much information about Albania on the Internet to start with. And there is even less information about bus connection and schedule between Athens and Tirana. I heard that Greek National Raiway (OSE) operates buses between Athens and Tirana. However, I cannot find any information on OSE website. Maybe the service is already disconnected due to low demand, who know? However, I did find bus schedule between Athens and Corfu (www.ktel.gr) and I'm sure there is ferry between Corfu and Saranda, Albania. So how should I travel? Still not certain even on my departing day.

Usually I get nervous before I leave for my trip and sometimes even trying to delay the whole trip. I did delay my trip for 3 days for my "First Balkan Trip" in May and it brought some disastrous results. Unfortunately, in that three short days, there were some unpleasant things happened. If I had left as scheduled, these things might never had have chance to arise. Many things from that disastrous three days remain unresolved yet..whatever.


So I hope, no matter what, I don't want to change my trip plan easily this time.


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