Wine and Stories of Berat festival

At the free walking tour in Berat I've met Julia, Vincent and some other cool people from Germany

After the free walking tour we enjoyed sunset at the Berat castle

After sunset we were getting hungry, so we went to Lili's homemade food restaurant and I can tell you, this is the best restaurant I have ever been to!

The owner is an amazing guy! Its homemade traditional food, the service is outstanding and I think this place definately needs a visit when you are in Berat!

I've paid around 1000 lek (8,5 eur i guess?) for a traditional albanian lamb stew, about 1-2 glasses of wine and we got 2 shots of rakia complimentary

We also encountered the group of people I had a fun night with in the hostel in Sarandë, it was really nice to see them again after a week and to exchange all our stories of what happened in the meanwhile

We went to the wine festival in Berat that was happining this weekend, tasting wine and rakia for free at this festival, dancing and partying to albanian music (there was some pretty famous albanian artist live on stage) and meeting local albanians and listening to their stories about life in Albania and Berat
I don't know if there would even be a better way as this to fully immerse myself in the local culture

I really enjoyed myself but I drank a bit too much so I've had some difficulties finding the way to the hostel again, when I finally arrived at the hostel I couldn't open the door, it seemed the door was locked from the inside (or I might have been too drunk to open it)

Because I couldn't open the door I was sitting at the stairs thinking about what to do, I was ready to just sleep outside until I heard a voice from the balcony, it was the old man from the hostel, he heard me making noise and it woke him up so he came down to open the door for me

Drunk as I was I could barely stand on my legs anymore so the old man had to help me to get up the stairs and get in my room

All by all, it was a great nightRead more