Classic Albanian dish and presentation, courtesy of the tourist office.
It will have taken a mere three decades for an encore to “Albania 1994,” with the long-awaited 2025 freshening-up orientation about to get underway in Tirana. Judging from the surface appearances to be gleaned from videos at YouTube, the country has changed considerably during my lengthy time away.
Of course Thomas Jefferson surely would counsel caution; prudence, indeed, will dictate that surface appearances via variable influencers at YouTube should not be trusted as they pertain to genuine, grassroots societal change.
But I’m an eternal optimist amid coups, pandemics and LA Dodger player acquisitions. This post is being written prior to my departure, so I’ll begin by looking back half a lifetime ago.
40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 54: New Albanians on beer holiday in Old Albania (1994) (at RogerBaylor.com)
Albania in 1994 was nine hot, gritty days spent in a pockmarked Fiat crisscrossing the...
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