My arrival in Tirana was a bit of experience - the bus from Skopje got in at around 5:00 in the morning, and I only remembered during the journey that Tirana doesn't have a bus station. That was the end of my plan to stay there for a few hours until my hostel opened. So the bus dropped us off on a seemingly random street somewhere near the central square, and the only option was to try and find a cafe that was open where I could relax for the next few hours. I ended up asking a taxi driver and after lots of discussion but with no common language, we eventually set off for a cafe, and he also insisted on showing me where my hostel was (but he got completely the wrong one) on the way. The cafe was a great way to start my time in Tirana though, the group of locals who were there seemed to be attempting to wake themselves up for work using a combination of coffee, chain smoking and raki - a true breakfast.
I really enjoyed my day and a half or so in Tirana though, it's a really interesting as well as pretty crazy city, and it was good fun to explore.
Leaving for Berat I had to use the nearest that the city has to a bus station, an area of rubble and half demolished buildings with some buses parked in it. It's pretty difficult to find any sort of schedule for the buses, but it works really well just turning up and there seem to be buses leaving to most of the major cities fairly regularly.
I really enjoyed my day and a half or so in Tirana though, it's a really interesting as well as pretty crazy city, and it was good fun to explore.
Leaving for Berat I had to use the nearest that the city has to a bus station, an area of rubble and half demolished buildings with some buses parked in it. It's pretty difficult to find any sort of schedule for the buses, but it works really well just turning up and there seem to be buses leaving to most of the major cities fairly regularly.
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