Kruje

The mountain town of Krujë was recommended as a day trip from Shkodra so we decided to make it our next stop. Krujë Camping was a lovely, small rustic campsite and we arrived to find it empty. We mused to ourselves that maybe the owner had gone to buy bread, or to mosque, and indeed he had done both, and soon returned to greet us. H had great fun rambling around the hilly stepped site blooming with olive trees, fruit trees, herbs and flowers, chickens roosting in the old concrete bunker, a duck and a guard dog. Shputim, the host gave us a lot of his time and told us a lot about Albania. We spent an hour in the town the next day which had a castle and a recently restored artisan market in the centre but H was too tempted to touch all the handicrafts so we cut our losses and moved on. Tagan was keen to find halal meat and found a halal butchers in Fushe-Kruje at the bottom of the hill. For some reason, butchers seemed to be attached to petrol stations.Read more