DATELINE: Durres, Albania    

Author: Natalie      

Question: what can you get in Albania for $1.10? Answer: a large plate of french fries. Or a round-trip train ticket from Tirana to the beach. We're on the Adriatic! We're in a really nice hotel! Food is cheap and beer is free (if you've already paid for nine of them and the restaurant decides you're cute). Funny things that happened today: Nick nearly decapitated himself while trying to get the "scenic view" on the train. Sam ate an entire fish: head, tail, and all. Andy wore jeans and construction worker boots to the beach. Tomorrow we're going to get him on a paddle boat in that get-up.