Weekend in Tirana

Friday...Operetta at U. of Tirana - free and then dinner with bottle of wine $33

Saturday - Visited the National Art Museum with rooms of huge communist paintings of gears, black, red colors and very strong people. These are the hours!
We then did a HASH (planned hike) with 15 folks, half Albanians and half foreigners. Three hours of strenuous hiking but beautiful country. Above is the floor of the hike with blooming plum trees. This is 20 minutes from Tirana.

Below is Claudia with Peter and I as we began the hike. This bunker is just one of the 700,000 that the dictator built during his 40 years as he was paranoid that some country was going to invade from WW II until he died in the early 80's.