Williams 6 pack traveler's (2025)

29/06/2025

6-29-2025. Gabe
Yesterday was a moving day. Staying in the same town, just in a different area. This new place is actually not so bad. The AC does not work and the stove only has one burner that works. But… it on the the ground floor and is basically an entire house. It has a fenced in yard and three little kitties for us to play with. The concrete home is positioned under trees, so it remains cool. We have spent more time sitting out front then we have inside.
We have 6 more days here and have not come up with a plan for what is next. We will either get another place for a week around Durres or we will get on a local bus and go explore more of Albania. Making our way to north Macedonia.
We feel as though the locals in this area, though use to tourist are not used to them in their backyard. We are the first people staying in this Airbnb.

27/06/2025

6-26-2025. Gabe.
Follow up post number 2. (PARIS)
Sorry I really thought that i had posted this, yesterday. Apparently i never pushed the button to post it.
Paris really has so much to offer and does represent what we think of, when we think Europe. In an earlier post i had said that Budapest would be a great option to experience the feel of europe. I would have to say that Paris really is the best if you are looking to take in the most. You could spend a month here and not see it all.
After we left Paris we had plans of going into the UK or into Italy. We decided that until the main tourist season is over it made more sense to fly back to Albania, rest and reset. We would not suggest tying to take in so many countries in such a short time.
We will explore more of Albania and North Macedonia. Then we will make the trip into the UK and of course Italy. We would really love to see more of Greece.
So for now we are back to moving slow and spending more time really taking in the world around us.
If your bored and want to come to Albania, we can show you around

25/06/2025

6-25-2025. Catch up post, Amsterdam Netherlands.
I do have many more pictures, but just more of the same.
Amsterdam is a very expensive place. The cost of being a tourist here is not a joke. We limited our stay to only a few days and made sure to experience as much as we could.
The town is a healthy place. It is known for bikes and they are flooded with them. So many bikes that it actually looks trashy because of the bikes. (can’t see the forest for all the trees). Walking and biking paths are the sidewalks and connect every street and area of the city. We have been to many places that have a good amount of paths, none like here.
We did like Amsterdam. It is such a unique city, compared to other places we have been. We do not think we could live there. But we don’t think we could live in most of the places we have been to in Europe.

24/06/2025

6-24-2025 Gabe
We are back in Albania. I will be making two later posts. One from our time in Amsterdam Netherlands and one from Paris France.
The last few months have been wild and kinda fast. The last week was even faster with lots of miles traveled.
Since we are back in Albania i will just start there. We flew out of Paris and had a layover in Rome. We did not leave the airport as our layover was to short. Also they were having major strikes for the transportation employees. We then flew back into Tiranë Albania, arriving at midnight. The airport is newer but is not nicer. You land and then take the stairs to exit the plane. Then you take a bus to immigration. They have zero other ways of boarding or off loading the planes.
Once you make it through immigration, you are directly in front of the baggage carousel. Being that we had checked my bag we waited and waited and searched, to no avail. So we filed a claim with the lost and found and exited the baggage area. Our plan was to wait out in the airport for several hours until the buses started running to take us back into Durres. Normally airports in capitals are large and have plenty of room to wait. Funny part is, once you leave the baggage claim you are basically out of the airport. Yes the area for check in is enclosed and we did find some chairs to hangout in. Just a very limited and small area.
We took our bus back to Durres and first thing we did was purchase me a new pair of shorts and a shirt, both I needed anyway. We met up with the landlord of our airbnb and got settled in.
Then the process of tracking my bag. You would think that such a common issue of lost luggage, it would be handled with a some extra communication. One email a day later and the promise to get it to you, by the end of the day. No clear instruction of when they will show up or what you might need to verify. Also Albania really don’t have addresses. They have names of roads and maybe the name of the building you are in, absolutely confusing to me. Anyway the driver finally contacted me around 10:30 pm and said he would let me know when he was near. I stood out side waiting, when he called he said he was there, haha, sure buddy I am standing in the middle of the road and no cars have shown up. Also it was close to midnight. He was a block over, on the same road. After some normal aggressive communication we figured out the issue and treated each other with zero animosity. It’s just how the culture is here.

Keep in mind that the bags we carry have every worldly possession we own in them. I was more stressed by how the lost and found process, then losing all of my clothes.
We all carry two bags, one large pack and one small personal bag. Every possible important item is kept with me around my chest. So even if the bag was lost, it all could have been replaced. Except shoes, I can’t find shoes my size in albania.
I will start the process of the next two post.
Hope all are well and safe, we are.

18/06/2025

6-18-2025. Gabe

Well we have finished up and left the Netherlands. I will get a post for Amsterdam after Ivget some sleep. Today was a travel day, it took us through Belgium and into France.
We will be counting Belgium as officially visited. We got off the bus and took some pictures. Plus we were able to travel through several of its cities. If the prices were not unbelievably high, we might have stayed and explored a few days.
The bus we were on, it was late. Then it made extra stops. We had a fellow passenger that seemed to be unaware of the need to heed the allotted time at each stop. At one stop the driver had to honk at him to get him to get aboard. Finally at one of the unscheduled stops, they drive off and forgot him. They normally do a count of the passengers, before we leave, not this time. They did the count after we were already on the highway. So I assume they have had this issue before. He was in a taxi waiting for us farther down the road. It was a good chuckle for us, as he was not very happy. The kicker is, he had a person on the bus with him. They may not have been friends, though they got on together and were in seats next to each other.
Finally, an hour late, we made it to Paris. We should have been here by 6:25 pm and pulled in around 7:45. Bumper to bumper traffic did not help to speed imi’s up any. Way too many people, just crazy. This somewhat caused us a few problems. We still had to catch another train, an hour out of town. The apartment we were staying in is located in a small town called Cergy, France. Every town in Europe does the train/tram/bus system different. Lucky Shanda and I had done our research and that the ticket machines were working. The app is a complete joke and a waste of time, if you are in a group/ family. Then after we arrived we still had to walk 25 minutes to the apartment.
Lucky for us it does not get dark until after 10pm.
Tomorrow we will head into paris and visit a few spots. We have limited our time and will only visit the important things and yes that metal tower will be one of them.

16/06/2025

6-16-2025. Gabe

We are in Amsterdam Netherlands, I guess we are enjoying it. The bus ride to get here was 7 hours but a very easy 7 hours. We only had to get up at 4:15 am to catch the Tram that took us to the bus station.
They have nice public transportation here. It’s almost impossible to get a ticket, all the machine that do work only take cash any the others have the screens bashed in. They offer a special ticket and an app that seems to be easy, if you already have it. Needless to say it is very friendly, if you are from here and have used it before. For tourists, it’s kind of a joke. You see it was fun to watch all the confused people, with luggage trying to figure out the process. Such fun…
I will give a better explanation of how the city work, tomorrow. We plan on doing some serious walking tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing the Anne Frank home and maybe rembrandt’s house.
I believe we all are looking forward to getting back to Albania.

16/06/2025

6-16-2025. Gabe

Made it to the Netherlands. We should be on Amsterdam in a couple hours.

15/06/2025

6-15-2025
Kassel Germany.
We have been here most of a week and have enjoyed our time doing much of nothing. We have gotten out a few times to get groceries and explore two different parts of the town. Each end of the city are two massive park areas. The main part of the city is just a normal tourist spot. We did walk through some of it, keeping on the outskirts to avoid those pesky tourist.
This is where ‘the brothers grimm’ are from. The brothers tha compiled the stories from the origin of fairy tales.

One is called Karlsaue state park and has several water paths and ponds to sit and relax in. Big and walking trails run in every direction. It’s main focal point is the Orangerie. It is an orangery in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. It was built under Landgrave Charles between 1703 and 1711. Since then, it forms the northern corner of the Karlsaue park. Today it is used as an astronomy and physical cabinet.
On the other end of the city is another more unique park full of castles. Some of them have been reserved and some of them are being restored. This park stretches in every direction, mainly up. We would have to say that this might have been one of the better places to hang out. Just imagining the type of people that lived in these castles. Also all the workers that endured during the greater periods of time, for this area.

We leave tomorrow morning going to Amsterdam for a few days and then onto Paris for a few days.
We had lots of ideas and plans to see even more of Europe, but have changed our minds. We are heading back to Albania and setting up a homebase for a period of time.
Trying to navigate housing and transportation, during tourist season is just not fun. We still plan on going to visit several other areas, just on our terms.
Visiting different cities in Italy will be in September. From Durres Albania, it is easy to navigate back into Italy.

12/06/2025

6-12-2025. Gabe
This post is of Berlin
We did not spend that long in Berlin. So much history to see and do. Since its main history is only about ww1 and ww2. You can find most of the historical buildings have all been bombed or neglected enough that they are gone. They do a good job of painting the picture and helping people remember what transpired. It is just that every tourist place is telling the same story. In fact it seems that every country tells the same story, just in a different way. It all depends on what atrocities happened in their area.

We did see a lot and believe that the children have a much better understanding of what really transpired, which is the point. Not to let history repeat itself, again and then again.
The bus ride to the current city was an easy one. Being that we had only 5 hours on a bus and not 16.
We are here in Kassel Germany for a whole week. Most definitely needed a break from constantly moving around. We will get out and see a few of the sites tomorrow, maybe.
After we leave this city, we go into Amsterdam and then to Paris. After that we are heading in the direction of Italy. Yes, plenty of other places to see and areas to visit. Unfortunately with the unrest of countries that are trying to take back their countries. Along with the places that do not want or like tourist and the fact that many of the places in Europe have out priced themselves, so tourist don’t visit. It is time to head back to Albania, reset and figure out what’s next.

12/06/2025

6-11-2025. Gabe
Of course I am behind on posting.
This post is from our last day in villainous Lithuania. which was last week. Our bus did not leave until 7pm that night. So we had to explore the city with our packs on. Lucky we are in shape and the packs are not an issue.
Because we stayed in two different cities within Lithuania, Kaunas and Villainous. We would recommend Kaunas as the nicer and cleaner city. Though they both have something to offer.
Being that we had time to spare we walked to a park we had already been to and had enjoyed. It has creek that runs next to it, lots of places to sit. Clean and quiet. Just a great location for six weird people, with packs to sit and relax.
When one person or a couple carry their packs, it’s not that noticeable. But when 6 people and 4 of them are kids are walking around with packs, it’s noticeable. We feel we stand out enough because of our group dynamic anyway, then add all your worldly belongings on your back. We feel the looks and do not care.
Next post will be of Berlin

07/06/2025

6-7-2025. Gabe
Berlin Germany

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This is in the old town square and it has a portal to another town. Telia played rock paper scissors with someone. It changes to different locations.

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