Pyramid of First Love
[May 2024] The next thing we saw in Tirana, the capital of Albania, was a building called the Pyramid. It was built as a museum to honour the achievements of Hoxha, the country’s dictator, and…
Tirana
The mosque and the square
[May 2024] Continuing with the city tour of Tirana, the capital of Albania. Next we went to a mosque. The mosque has a long name, Jamia Ethem Bey Mosque. Construction began at the end of…
Start of the city tour
[May 2024] Well, the Albania tour is coming to an end. We returned to Tirana, the capital where we started, and on our last night we all ate at an outdoor restaurant called Oda Garden….
While listening to history of the country
[Apr. 2024] On our second day in Albania, we left Tirana for Berat in the south. Before that, we didn’t have any Albanian money, leks, so we asked where the money exchange was and went…
A country where we were too late to visit
[Apr. 2024] I had wanted to go to Albania for a long time. When I first wanted to go, the country was still a communist country, and I remember an acquaintance who visited at the…
