Tirana

Walk around the centre of Tirana in the morning, the highlight of which was a vist to the National Historical Museum housing the best Archaeological artefacts, and a trip to a communist era nuclear bunker in the afternoon. The centre of Tirana has lots of smart new shiny buildings and last night it was busy with people out in the bars and restaurants, but outside the centre it can be very run-down with lots of rather tatty blocks of flats. The bunker was depressing and disappointing, it now used mainly as a museum showing the development of Albania from the Fascist Italian invasion in the thirties, through the horrid authoritarian communist regime from 1944 up to independence and the death of Enver Hoxha. We have see all this in other places so didn't need to see it again.

Tonight the rest of the group get a late flight home, so tomorrow we are off on our own again.Leggi altro