Experience Albania: Travel, Pictures, History, Culture

From left to right: Ryan, Katie, Joey, Brandon and James.
A great traveling team we were - ready for anything, including 6-7 hour bus/mini bus rides from one destination to the next.

We spent the first night of the trip in Tirane, thanks to my friend Alexa. Caught the 6AM bus to Puke (pronouced ‘Puka’) the next day and so the trip began …

This trusty bus took us four hours north to Puka. It was a decent ride, although very crowded with both seats and aisles packed [...]

Random snipits from a random roadtrip.

Coke and garlic.

Helping out at the autoshop .

A walk around Elbasan.

Fish from the Adriatic and Wine from Berat.

Irena chasing the balloon man on the beach.

The ride home.

 
My friend Anila taught me how to make a proper frappe a few weeks ago and I’m now hooked. All you need is instant coffee, sugar, milk and water. A few good shakes and relief from the heat is yours.
There’s a new bicycle shop that just opened along one of the main streets in Berat [...]

Local craftwork - a mini view of my city.

The idea came straight from the students. They asked me to help them organize an ‘American style’ graduation ceremony, complete with caps and gowns, a formal presentation of their diplomas, plus guest and student speakers.
Little did I know that over a year after they proposed the idea (back in June ‘06), we’d be in the [...]