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7-senses hotel review of HORIZONT Hotel Shkoder in Shkoder, Albania. Scoring sound, touch, taste, aroma, sight, sanctuary, and wander instinct.
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Last day in Shkoder: cleaning the apartment, stocking up on cheap meds, and a farewell dinner at Marina Seafood where the red porgy was unavailable but the smoke was, miraculously, also absent. The first 100% smoke-free meal in Shkoder — and it was the last one.
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A rest day with grocery-burning and future-planning, then dinner at Fisi: FËRGESE with Berat-region olive oil, baked lamb I’ll spend a lifetime trying to find again, and the ongoing war with cigarette smoke. Plus: why the bees of Albania might be seeking me out for fresh air.
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A rest day that became a meditation: the Site of Witness and Memory (26 prison cells, 987 dead), the strange numerology of 26, fried pancakes at Nam Bistro, a regrettable Whopper, and the discovery of the single best bench in Shkoder — shaded, windswept, and miraculously smoke-free.
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Shkoder Day 1: A walk through the Marubi photography museum, breakfast at Nam Bistro with orange juice that tastes of Valencia, and an unforgettable evening feast — 26 dishes, 4 kilos of rose petals, and a host who turns out to be a software-developer-philosopher rolling grape leaves by hand.
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Vienna’s thick-walled coffee houses and deep U-Bahn stations are the ultimate coverage test. We ran Saily through all of it.
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7-senses hotel review of Central-Living Vienna in Vienna, Austria. Scoring sound, touch, taste, aroma, sight, sanctuary, and wander instinct.
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From Vienna’s elegance to Albania’s raw countryside — a 90-minute flight and a bumpy highway that tells you everything about a country in transition.
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It was a light day today as it’s been a long week. The morning was all about getting one last walk through the University of Wein Botanical Gardens and soak in the last few minutes of Vienna nature. Not much is blooming except for the Sauppler effect. I walk the gardens and end up…
