Vasilis or « Billy » hostes us to Arta. As many young people in this city, he walks around with his instrument and plays traditional Greek music in taverns … and dreams of playing beyond the borders of his country.
A video made during our stay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ke2WRut_5g
Lorela tells us that women place in the society is not the best in Albania, although the hope is strong, there are a lot of work to do to change mentalities … beginning with her own family!
She keeps smiling and dreams to travel,and wishes to meet people from other countries.
Albania is having political change because of economic ambitions such as tourism developpment.
In Vlore, buildings constructed illegally on the sea front are destroyed. We are seeing the highly publicized destruction of a building built two years. Intrigues by our recorder, curious come to us and Enrik, the television journalist who is covering the event wishes to talk to our micro!
Zana has been working over 30 years in the archives of the Albanian national television and radio of Tirana. She proudly shows us hundreds of magnetic tapes and chooses one in particular, a polyphonic song of the south, from the Vlore region.
This is the end of a world we are witnessing here … in a few days sounds are going to be digitized.
Adela invited us to spend few days in Lezhe where she lives with her parents, brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews.
Young and dynamic entrepreneur woman, she strongly believes in the tourism potential of its region.
Elisabeth is a story of coincidences, we share a burek on the place of Herceg-Novi, she told us about a village on the Bay of Kotor. The next day we met her again on a path between the orange trees going to the village of Kavac.
We met Igor in the cemetery of Cetinje with his colleagues. He immediately offered to host us and share a meal. They evoke the great Serbia, their families far away and the links between the peoples of the former Yugoslavia.
