I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 575. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about mosques and

Byzantine churches hikes and Shepherds Hut's bunkers and bunker art as we go to the country and Bunker Art

are Bunker Art as we go to the country of Albania.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We're revisiting a

destination we've talked about maybe 10 years ago on amateur traveler, but a

destination that has changed a lot in the meantime. on Amateur

Traveler, but a destination that has changed a lot in the meantime. So now let's talk about Albania.

I'd like to welcome to the show Dina Rabner from Brooklyn,

who has come to talk to us not about Brooklyn, but about Albania.

Dina, welcome to the show.

Hi, nice to be here.

And Dina is a regular list of the show, and I like that when somebody knows how this works.

Dina what is your connection with Albania?

Why are we talking about Albania?

My first introduction to Albania was when I was a Peace Corps volunteer.

I was part of the first group of Peace Corps

volunteers to be in the country, and that was in 1992,

right when Albania was kind of emerging from a period of not communism but really

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