Walking along a road on the Albanian side of Lake Ohrid, I met this friendly farm couple. |
Wash day by an Albania village |
Albania was the poorest of these Balkan countries but was not as backward as one might have imagined. |
Albanians were friendly. For example, these guys (all entering a police academy) invited me to join them for dinner and drinks. |
This modern pyramid in Tirana was to be a museum and mausoleum for Albania's brutal communist dictator Hoxha, but it's now a wonderfully vandalized place where kids trample on his ersatz tomb. |