Gjirokaster, Albania

Lord of the Rings + rain = big. There were some very pleasant people here. See Issue 23 for more

... a trip to an Albanian university and speak to students there about their views on Greeks, and the relationship between the 2 countries. Albania is not quite what I was expecting. I honestly didn't know a lot about the country, and thus didn't really ...

... "beautiful." Hence, for our three hours together, everything was beautiful. Most frequently, it was I who was beautiful, but Albania was declared beautiful a number of times, and the rice pilaf for lunch even managed to make it into the beautiful category ...

... looking slate grey village perched on a hill (not unlike a set from a vampire movie). On to the survey : Albania loves a : New service station (thousands being built), mobile carwashes (man with jetwasher every ten paces), stolen high end Mercedes, ...