Albania: Summer Days
August 11th 2008 We left an empty, hot Tirana on Sunday morning and took the three hour drive down south to Vlore. The road passes through Durres which had become a parking lot of cars with foreign plates--Albanians home for the summer holidays--and teenagers on holiday walking to the beach.
The road winds down along the coast, past some abandoned factories, empty railroad tracks, and a million roadside restau
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