The last night in Albania we spent in Durres. This is the night view from our Hotel Room. 
This is a walk on the beach the next morning. The tourist season has not yet begun, so we got a good rate on a beach front hotel.
The streets of Durres are narrow and crowded with cars. What might be a driveway in Utah is a two-way street with parking on both sides! The streets are also in need of repair. We have been told that a few years ago there were 10,000 pot-holes in Albania, but there are now only 5,000. They were able to reduce the pot-hole count by increasing the size of all of the pot-holes so that some of the pot-holes swallowed up some of the others. It makes a good story.
Albania seems to have the ability to produce very good olives. Here is a sampler of various types of olives in the marketplace.
This is across the street from the Bott's apartment. You can see the Supermarket sign down the street. This is really a large building in which individual small merchants sell their produce.
Albania is actually mostly Muslim. However, it is very secular because of the Russian influence after WWII. We seldom saw women clothed in burkas or even a veil. Here is a Mosque in Durres.
There is an old wall that surrounded Durres in Roman times. The Botts are going in the old gate with Marilynn.
This is the scene on the Beach. Then we returned to Tirana and flew back to Frankfurt.
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