Entering Albania from Greece was like going back to the middle east.
Greece has shiny new busses, and Albania has run-down minivans that serve as shared taxis to get you around (and they are cheap!). While Greece was the culmination of a long return to the ‘western’ world’, Albania was more eastern feeling, and much less developed.
First stop in ALBANIA is Berat, an old city with an inhabited hilltop fortress. You walk up a worn shiny marble-paved road to arrive at the ‘castle’ where there are whole neighborhoods living up there within the walls.
We checked out another ‘typical Turkish house’ displaying ottoman-style home features and furnishings, 
and damned if in the yard there weren’t a LIVE TURKEY!
ANDREW SEZ:
For those young readers out there, and those who are geographically challanged, we are now traveling in the countries which used to be known as Yugoslavia.
This means a few things: First of all, they used to be communist.
Religion in this part of the world used to be either illegal or suppressed. So although we occasionally heard the call to prayer, (more…)