We have just returned from 6 days in this wonderful land and we want to give an honest and frank testimony to make those who would like to go or are about to go, understand that they should give up even before leaving.
1) It’s an acerbic country, new to tourism, if you’re looking for the Romagna Riviera or Venetian efficiency, stay in Italy.
Here you will find smiles, friendship, kindness, care… rare things in Italy.
2) The sea? BEAUTIFUL but certainly not the best in the world, if you are looking for Maldives, go to Maldives.
I can already hear you “oh, do you want to mess with the Italian sea?? “
Of course, go pay 60 euros for an umbrella and 2 deck chairs in the third row.
Here you will find gazebo with sea front for 25 euros, fish dinners with a breathtaking view for 12 euros per person, calm, pristine nature, cleanliness and functional services, everywhere.
3) Locals & Excursions ??
Frightening… they be wanting to make you spend money and entertain you till the last second.
They are not the angry and grumpy ones ready to fuck you at the first false step, like 90% of our Italian bar and restaurant owners do.
4) Wonderful, kind and smiling people. See in them that desire to “make themselves useful” that has died in Italy for decades.
Eh, I already hear you “Ah but the standards aren’t like the Italian ones”
We stayed in Saranda, and we paid for a 4 star hotel with breakfast and a room with a terrace with sea view, 32 euros a night (the room).
In Italy, Zi Peppe’s bettolacccia costs twice as much, with mice and cockroaches.
Wrapping up?? We work online and with my partner we travel a lot.
This summer we have been in Ischia, on Lake Garda, in Liguria, in Brianza, in Milan, in Cilento (where I live), in Apulia and finally Saranda.
Albania is the only place where I left my heart and where I would return tomorrow.
To Albanian friends, I pray that you preserve these places, not to sell them out and to select better the Italians, ignorant, arrogant and with the stink under your nose (we’ve met a dozen of them at least).
To you with an open heart and mind I say, let yourself be enchanted by these wonderful things… you are going to be kidnapped.
Many Italians (not all eh) don’t deserve Albania.
See u soon Beautiful Land… We will certainly be back.
