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We had a fun week driving around Albania with Nana & Pops. The main themes for these past few days have been medieval castles, delicious food, and learning about Albania's totalitarian past.
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After picking Nana & Pops up from the airport in Tirana, we familiarized ourselves with Albanian history by visiting the Bunk'art Museum. It is located in a 1980s downtown bunker and it tells the story of how Enver Hoxha's communist regime kept control over Albania for forty years. Later in the evening, we tried to dodge some Tirana rain showers with varying degrees of success.
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Our next stop was Berat, which is a few hours south of Tirana. It's a lovely town with an obligatory hilltop castle. Pops made a friend at a local seafood restaurant. The new friend shared with Pops raki and stories about the collapse of communism. While in Berat, we continued our weeks-long admiration of Orthodox iconography at the icon museum, and we stumbled upon some modern iconography in the form of murals commemorating the war in Kosovo.
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This has been a classic Kota-family trip so far: lots of good walks, delicious food, and plenty of history.
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