Today was pretty busy. We got up at 8 to check out and move to another hotel, because when we'd arrived yesterday we frantically found this place and it turned out to be cheap but horrible.
Anyway we dropped our bags off at the new place (which is wayyyy nicer & only 3€ more than the last craphole) and sat down at a cafe for brekky. The owner of the café was an athlete in his previous life and wasted no time in showing us photos of him in his heyday, shaking hands with presidents and winning gold. He was a very nice man. It was just weird because they forced us to sit in the backroom, which in the end we realised it was because it was air-conditioned and I think they wanted to impress us foreigners. Had omelette as we have concluded local Albanians have no such thing as buying breakfast. They either eat at home or just eat a cheese pastry.
Next we went to the national museum where there was the history of Albanian from Illyrian times through to communism. Very interesting and sad as usual.
Then back to hotel to properly check in and chilled out for a bit as our feet hurt from walking so much.
Ryan was getting hangry so we went in search of lunch (doner again...) And then hopped on a bus to go to the dajti express cable car. There was a kid, maybe 17? Who saw us and started riding his bike beside us, talking to us and joking, offering to ride us to the top. We declined then out of nowhere he asked for money. We were like for what!!???? What did you do to earn the money?! And I lost it as usual because they want money for nothing so I yelled at him to stop following us and then he touched my bum, and then was pointing at his crotch - no idea what that was about!
When we got to the top the sun was shining on the city so really good timing as it's been very cloudy. We went to the café at the top, had coffee and a traditional milk cake dessert.
Grabbed some local strawberries and bananas on the way back, then didn't go out for dinner until lateish. Was good though because we ate Chinese for the first time in forever. Food was ok, their fried rice was pretty good. Then went to Sky Tower to the revolving bar. Ordered some drinks and slowly got nauseous as the rotation is a bit jerky.
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