Enjoy Tirana while you can!

It’s the end of the summer season and the weather has started to cool a little bit. But more interestingly, majority of the people are either on vacation or out of town. This is quite visible by the reduced number of people and cars on the streets everywhere you go.

Yes, even the city gets to take some days off from the intense, chaotic and noisy routine of everyday Tirana.

You should be able to enjoy it till the end of the month of August. It is then that people start to make their came-back and from then on things are never the same, at least till the next summer season!

If there are parts of the city that you want to visit or just to walk around the streets, at ‘reduced risk’ of being run over by cars, you may just notice that the city has trees, some quiet streets, some interesting hidden-away house, building or even a small park that you might just be surprised by.

Enjoy it while you can, that’s all I will say!

Written by

Elvis Plaku

Elvis Plaku was born and raised in Tirana and has lived in Albania his whole life. He has been blogging about Albanian culture, travel and everyday life since 2004 — one of the country's longest-running English-language blogs. By day he runs the web agency Sfida.PRO; here he writes as a local, sharing the Albania he actually knows.