I know that to be a fact, because I was there. Then, reality is always stranger than any fiction that I could describe. The introduction has been provided for review. The goal of the introduction is to provide the reader with just enough information to allow them to be thrown into chapter one. Albania Chapter one has been provided for review.
Chapter one begins in Patras, Greece and proceeds by bus to Tirana, Albania.
This is a trip that very few tourists take, or ever want to consider taking. Then that is what much of this journey is like. I had believed that in Albania I would find a lost and isolated Europe frozen in the 1930's. When I arrived in Tirana, I found a strange and different world from what I expected. The material for this chapter was originally written as three chapters.