Day 110
At the Macedonian side of the border I have to ask for an exit stamp and then head to the Kosovo side where there’s no sign of any guards. Later I check the stamp and it’s actually a Kosovo entry stamp.
This part of Kosovo is ethnically Albanian which is very clear from the flags, mosques, and the music being played.
Day 111
It’s cloudy but dry and the wind has dropped. An excellent day cycling mostly back lanes through Kosovo to Albania. I ride for a bit with a couple of New Zealanders who are doing a seven week circuit of the Balkans and loving it.
Kosovo’s main industry seems to be chopping sections out of the sides of mountains and carting it off in lorries. There’s also a large number of war memorials, often with weird castle-shaped buildings of different designs. The country is basically a small flat plain surrounded on all sides by mountains, from the top of the hills in the south I can see across the whole country to the mountains of the northern border.
A very quick border crossing, again there’s no stamp and only one side is manned. The Albanian mountains are immense.
