Matarë Albania

As a kid growing up I would look at the Atlas imagining what the countries were like that I was looking at on the map. Albania always stood out as a place that I had to actually go to because I was so curious about it. Back then it was communist not that I knew exactly what that meant but it did sound extremely foreign to me.

Today I entered the country, it is no longer communist and in the last two decades it has changed enormously.

The Albanian Alps are extremely jagged,, jutting out into the sky directly by the road. Just vertical walls framed by thunder and lightning in the early afternoon.

I ran into Lorenz a couple of times as we leapfrogged each other. He was looking for his Swiss compatriots but it turned out he couldn't find them but I saw them at the cafe.

Early to bed.Read more