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well good morning from paradise my
friends
i am so excited to see
this view when i wake up every morning
so i am currently in the third largest
city in
albania i am in flora or vlorey
i've heard it pronounced both ways it
just feels so refreshing to be out here
uh with the sea breeze after being
in the mountains um for quite a while
where i'm staying right now is actually
a little bit
ways out from downtown glory which is
just
over there but you can walk there in
about 40 minutes or take a local bus
which takes like
15 minutes and they come fairly often
because sometimes it is actually better
to not be right in the
downtown core it is much more peaceful
but
guys we have like a whole strip of
beach like right over there right
outside my doorstep
we have basketball courts tennis courts
this would actually be an amazing place
to stay if you wanted the convenience
of being so close to vlora but not have
like the hubbub
of the city and have the sea literally
outside of your doorstep
and before we head out for a tour of
laura i did of course want to give you
guys a
tour of this amazing apartment that i am
staying at and i do have to say that it
was very kindly gifted to me
by a lovely lady named effie so effie
thank you so much
for letting me stay here i think this is
the nicest place
that i have stayed on in my trip i will
of course be linking it in the
description
she rents out on airbnb and i think this
would be
an incredible place to see vlore from
so the apartment is on the sixth
floor and it is a newly
built building everything is clean
and fresh it is a two bedroom
apartment this is the twin room
which would be perfect if you had kids
or were coming with
friends i of course am staying in the
master bedroom and the mattress here is
super comfy which i very much appreciate
when
you're traveling long term it is so nice
when places have really good mattresses
and then over here is the washroom
it has a really big shower
has everything you need as well
as a washing machine which is also
very much appreciated when you are
traveling long term
and then over here is of course the
beautiful living space
it's a very spacious uh dining slash
living room and it also has a really
big kitchen so if you like to cook
this place would be absolutely perfect
but of course
my favorite part is the balcony
with the most amazing view
like i still can't get over how gorgeous
this is
i will link this place in the
description and thank you effie once
again
for letting me stay here
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i do have to say i'm a little bit sad
that it's
quite overcast and kind of drizzling
rain today and i was drizzling rain
yesterday because this place
would be even more magical if it was
sunny out but having said that i am
grateful that it's not pouring rain
because the last couple of weeks it has
been so challenging
to film in all my prior destinations
because the rain has been like
coming down making it impossible to film
so overcast is much better than that i
am grateful for that
but just imagine this place with the sun
out
so here we are getting into downtown
vlora we're still kind of on the edge of
the water and
i want to keep going around it to see
this one
beach that i heard was also really
famous
like the ones on the boardwalk that we
already passed but already what i really
like about this city is that it's super
colorful i don't know if you guys can
see behind me but there's some greens
some yellows some blues and the whole
city is supposed to be
kind of like that in a way similar to
tirana if you guys saw
those videos that i did uh i personally
love when cities are colors
other than like gray black
white beige it just adds so much flavor
to the mix
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rarely have i seen cars
just randomly parked on the beach
but i guess since we are in the winter
season
why not so as far as i can tell
this beach here uh just outside of the
city center
is another uh really popular beach
in the summertime obviously but i would
say that you are far
better off to go to the beaches that
were near
my apartment because behind me there
really isn't
a lot it's just kind of scattered
residential buildings there's not really
like any restaurants or shops or
anything like that
like back on the boardwalk was much
better
with the amount of amenities and just a
nicer beach
in general i was actually expecting this
part to be a little different
i mean don't get me wrong it is
absolutely
beautiful and the sun has actually
somewhat
peaked through the clouds but yeah i
think i'm just gonna go for
a little uh walk down the beach
and then we will turn back and
head to the city's old town
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so here we are in the heart of the city
we are just in front of the
independence monument if you guys can
see
albania's independence was actually
signed for you could say here in vlore
where at the time the country was being
occupied by
serbian montenegrin and greek troops
so 83 delegates from all over the
country got together
under the leadership of ismail cuemo
which was like
a high-ranking person in the ottoman
government and they decided to make
albania an
independent nation
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the buildings here in the old town are
absolutely
beautiful i love
the bright colors obviously everything
has been
very much restored like these look uh
like they were very recently um you know
built
and painted but i do have to say it's
pretty empty like there's a few cafes in
here
um but a lot of the buildings just
seem empty maybe there's something in
there that i'm not aware of
i'll go to nowhere it started raining
outside so i decided to
pop into this fast food place
which after doing a little bit of
research
turns out to be the albanian version of
mcdonald's it is called colonna
um i guess like the brand colors are the
same i don't know if you guys can see
well you probably can't see the sign
over there but yeah this is i guess
their pseudo mcdonald's here in albania
so
let's see if it's any good
fries are very good
fries are definitely a plus
and now for the burger
hmm
the meat definitely tastes different
than i expected it has like some kind of
spice on it i don't know what it is
i just ordered like the regular
cheeseburger
but i mean it doesn't take much to beat
mcdonald's
so i would give kalanat a
7 out of 10.
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i was just thinking to myself
that everybody else's vlog like travel
vloggers
vlog of laura that i've seen is like
so summertime happy like beach life
everything you know green sunshine
and mine's just like dark dreary oh well
we have cute dogs
but we have cute dogs and we can't ask
for more than that can we know
um so yeah i just want to put a
disclaimer out
that unless you do come in like january
or something
it is going to be a very you know bright
beautiful happening sort of city
come here come here
come here don't be scared
don't be scared don't be scared
oh give me five yeah yeah
i just want to love you no biting though
no biting so sweet
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wow look at this
even on a dreary day
that water is like an electric blue
color at least
from here i don't know how it's exactly
translating on camera but
wow you can really get a great view of
the city from here
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absolutely beautiful
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alright friends i think i am going to
leave off
filming here at least for today tomorrow
there is a place i really hope i'm gonna
be able to go
hopefully the weather stays okay uh
there's this place called
zverenik i think i'm pronouncing that
right where
it's kind of an island onto itself
and there's some beautiful beaches kind
of a forested
area some monasteries some churches
some really just beautiful stuff to see
so i'm hoping that i'll be able to do
that
tomorrow morning though it is seven
kilometers something like that
um from the center of the city so i will
have to take a taxi
there so hopefully the weather holds up
and i will see you guys tomorrow
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so that is it my friends uh things did
not go exactly as
planned uh with the weather but that's
just how it goes sometimes
i am really grateful that overall uh my
time here in albania has had
mainly good weather so just because the
last couple of weeks have been
not the best isn't you know the worst
thing ever
i did still really enjoy my time here in
vlora it is an amazing city and i
absolutely want to come back here
in the summer once again a very big
thank you to effie for letting me stay
in this amazing
apartment like i can't even tell you
guys how gorgeous this place is
so if you're looking for an amazing
apartment right on the beach
incredible sea views i will have that in
the description you guys can check it
out
easy on airbnb so thank you once again
effie for letting me stay here
and as always thank you guys so much for
tuning in
i hope you're having a fantastic day and
keep
being your own kind of beautiful bye
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