Bunkers

Anyone visiting Albania, still today, has noticed the thousands of bunkers scattered throughout the entire country since they are the last remnants of its communists era. They have been photographed and remarked about in many articles and travel blogs, but now there is a real comprehensive study about them online.

This is the outcome of two Albanian students' research at the Politecnico Institute of Milan, Italy, which they expertly presented as the "Concrete Mushrooms" project in the above highlighted, click-able site. Their down-loadable PFD file includes excellent statistics and mapping, in addition to clear visuals and easy to follow graphics. A project really well done, which, apparently, will end up as a documentary, also previewed in the above site!

Albanian tourism

There is no need to add more to this article from Balkan Travellers entitled "Five Places to Discover in Albania in October". The links from it also offer additional beautiful pictures enticing anyone to visit the mentioned sites.

The fall is not only the best season in New York, but also in Albania with its still pleasantly warmer Mediterranean climate. Tourism there has experienced quite a boom so far this year and the need for Tirana's airport expansion, being completed now, is the proof. The recent development of new highways also attracts a large number of east "inland-ers" from Kosova and Macedonia to the lovely welcoming country's shores.