I’d considered booking a day tour and decided to keep it
open instead- it was a good decision. I spent the day walking all over
Tirana. My first stop was the mall
across the street.
I thought it had everything but there were no paper maps. I very carefully kept track of when I turned onto another street and managed to avoid getting lost. I'd found that the phone apps were useless in Munich a few months ago so I figured they wouldn’t be any better here. I’d also found that the SIM card I’d bought at Heathrow that I’d told them I needed to work in Albania didn’t. The display showed that it was connected to Vodaphone Albania but it was otherwise useless. By the end of the day I’d found a store that sold me a map and gotten an Albanian SIM card. The one I bought at Heathrow could come in handy when I got back into EU countries.
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| Definitely NOT the brutalist architectural style favored by the Communists/ |
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| The Albanian equivalent of a Dollar store. Their currency is actually the Lek, which is worth less than a penny, so it was easier to find merchandise in the low-Euro price range! |
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| Tanners Bridge, a 18th-century Ottoman bridge. |
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