Where's Garry - Ksamil

Albania to Macedonia (via Greece)

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September 6th 2009
We begin our journey through Albania with three bus rides from Budva through to Tirana. We ended up with a private room at Freddy's Hostel. Tirana wasn't the most exciting city we have been to so far but it is interesting with Albania only just having come out of an unsuccessful communism in the 90's. Things in Tirana were fairly cheap & people were generally extremely friendly. On one occasion we ... read more

Europe » Albania

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Between 1990 and 1992 Albania ended 46 years of xenophobic Communist rule and established a multiparty democracy. The transition has proven difficult as successive governments have tried to deal with high unemployment, widespread corruption, a dilapi... ... read more