Albania’s dictator Hoxha ordered the construction of 750,000 bunkers to protect the country. About 170,000 were built. Most are still in place and rotting away.
Krujë, the home of Skanderbeg
In the town of Krujë everything is about Albanian national hero Skanderbeg. Not just the museum, but even the mountains are named after him 🙂
A Pyramid for the dictator
Anyone staying in Tirana can hardly ignore the dictators’ pyramid. From 1988 to 1991 the former Enver Hoxha Museum had “more or less everything Enver Hoxha had ever touched” on display.
Tirana
Until almost 100 years ago Tirana only had a few thousand inhabitants, but under the Communist Regime it grew to half a million people.
Welcome to… Albania
Albania doesn’t make the list of the most popular travel destinations. But we had no problems finding enough to do for two weeks!
From Locarno to the Cardada Cimetta
Recently I was traveling across Switzerland and and made a little detour to Locarno. In April 2019 an unexpected cold front brought half a meter of fresh to the mountains, and so everything turned into a bit of a snow hike…;)
Inside the Odessa Catacombs
The biggest attraction in the ukrainian city of Odessa is not located on the surface, but below the ground. Welcome to the largest catacomb network in the world!
At the Black Sea in Odessa
Towards the end of our trip through the Ukraine we just wanted to relax, maybe hang around a beach for two or three days and do nothing. What a lucky coincidence that we had just arrived in Odessa 🙂
The Museum of Strategic Rocket Forces in Pobuzke
If you ever wanted to start a Total Nuclear War from an actual launch console 30 meters below ground – in this museum you can 😉