Welcome to Albania, your car is already here

This photo cries out for humorous remarks about the education system in Albania

The headline is quoted from the airport welcoming sign in Tirana. And I do belive it might be true, at least if your country of origin is Italy, England or Germany. The roads are littred with brand new luxury cars which becomes a bit strange in Europes poorest country. The roadsides on the other hand are littred with wrecks, it seems as Albania seconds as the car graveyard of Europe, is that how EU manages to stay so nice and clean?

I crossed the border in the North from Montenegro and was struck by the amount of trash lined up along the road, the holes in the road, the smell of rotten road kill and the briliantly happy and beautiful people. A bit of a culture chock. I stayed on the lowland all along the way and after Shkoder the road was better but also the amount of traffic grew. I tried to stay in the middle of the road to stay visible but my former hypothesis that it is all a matter of staying visible since no one wants to kill me had to be refurbished. Here I’m not sure that it is true, better to stay clear.