Bucket List 196: Albania!
The Road Travelled · Tales From Albania · Photos
Country 65/196: Albania. More than just pristine Mediterranean beaches on a budget, exploring Albania’s communist past proved far more enthralling than fighting a German for a sun lounger. Play the ‘Spot the Bunker’ game and see how many of the seven-hundred-and-fifty thousand you can locate and smell urine in or head north to the verdant shores of Lake Skadar and attempt not to get run over in the City of Bikes. If in the country on December 31st, go to Tirana and take part in a boisterous New Year’s party that you certainly won’t forget, that’s unless a firework or flare hits you full in the face which is fairly likely.
The Road Travelled
Tales From Albania
Bunkered Down
September 7th, 2023 With just days to the start of a new year, we decided that Shkodër might not be the most happening place in the world to ring it in and so we made the short journey southwards along the exceedingly bumpy E762 highway to the capital: Tirana. Brought under communist rule after the Second World War…
So Near Yet Shkodër
September 6th, 2023 If there is one nation that is keener than any other to remind people that it is not a former member of the erstwhile country of Yugoslavia or, indeed, that it is not Slavic in any way, shape, or form then it is Albania. Proclaimed independent from the Ottoman Empire way back in 1912, the…
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Albania
Country: 65/196 Visited: Winter ’22/’23
