Border Crossings, Albania to Turkey (May 7, 2022, the severed branch)

Rough bus rides and cheap hotels in Albania | Crossing by foot from Albania to Macedonia | Traversing Bulgaria by bus in the night | At last arriving in Istanbul

Above: A view from the bus in Albania (photos my own)

It was early evening on a scorching hot day in the summer of 2010. I had just arrived by bus to Korçë, Albania. I was on my way from Sarandë (also in Albania) to Istanbul. But with no onward buses this late in the day, I’d have to stay the night here in Korçë

I had a fever anyway, one which had been d…