Even the tour bus driver got lost. It’s easier than you think to get lost on Albania’s twisting mountain roads. On a shore excursion during a rare cruise visit to Albania, our driver had to stop and ask directions to an unmarked trail leading to a home where we were going to enjoy a typical lunch.
Unfamiliarity is understandable in a way, because generations of Albanians have never explored far from their homes. Until 1990, this country across the Adriatic from the boot of Italy was literally a no-go zone for foreign tourists and a no-leave zone for its citizens. Then, for more than two years during the pandemic, it was shut down again.
Read it all in The Cruisington Times