17
Nov
In Albania, a Capital Full of Contradictions
“Albania kaput!” announced the lunatic on the streets of Tirana. I looked at my new friends, a pair of Serbian filmmakers and a Dutch backpacker I’d met in a cafe, and we tried to walk away. But his insanity was unavoidable, and soon we were a captive audience to his crackpot ramblings about Bill Clinton, Sept. 11 and the future of Albania. I’d been in Tirana less than four hours and, already, moments like these had ceased to faze me.
