This wonderful picture was taken by the talented photographer, Kim Hakkenberg, in Albania.








Albania is a place i mean to return to each summer but never do and the tide of globalisation is steadily seeping into the country and I do not have so much longer before it ir discovered and everyone goes there. Already ominously Romanians are no longer shocked that I like the place but say Oh yes I hear its beautiful. the increasing broadmindedness of Romanians  is something I find startling - I had got used to them being anything but.  I am not sure that I entirely approve. I feel the old landmarks are disappearing,