Thanks for this wonderful comment ❤ we had the most amazing time in Albania and are looking forward to a return trip someday. Kruje was definitely one of our favorite places that we visited in our time there. Thats an interesting point about the food because I did notice we had some delicious local food in kruja and Tirana, however once we moved down south toward Sarande there was more variety and less local options. It was a bit more touristy in my opinion with a less authentic feel around Sarande, although still a beautiful place. Our favorite places were kruja, gjirokaster, Tirana, and Berat! Thanks for watching our little family travel videos 😊

@@gabbettfamilytravels Yes, Sarande is touristy but Gjirokaster and Berat cook mostly traditional of course not all restaurants. But I meant our southeastern side where my grandmother was from Leskovik and boy did she cook! Pogradec, Korce, Erseke, Leskovik, Permet and the surrounding villages there. Our best food is in high mountains villages especially is you go into villagers houses. They cook organic food because the ingredients are grown in their backyards and from their cattle that are fed with wild grass and have such a rich taste and flavor.

@@albusha5150oh that sounds wonderful. We’ll have to visit those areas on our next trip!

Glad you found it helpful! You’re gonna have a great time!

@@RenatoGambino-i8w it’s a beautiful country ❤️

Ahh I’m curious why Albanians find it embarrassing. We found it beautiful and think it shows that different religions can live together

@gabbettfamilytravels we find embarrassing coz it's not our culture or religion. We have been occupied from ottoman empire for 500 years and forced our people to convert and left their culture in our land....our people and ancestors had nothing to do with islam. We are European people and our ancestors fought hard against Turkish occupation. It just doesn't suit our people this religion.

@@albania8982ooh I understand. Thanks for explaining

@gabbettfamilytravels Your welcome. Hope your enjoying Albania 🇦🇱 What months were you there???

@@albania8982we were there in October

They are definitely very similar in terms of road conditions and drivers. Roads are narrow and there seems to be very minimal regulation in terms of parking. In both countries you’ll see drivers speeding, illegally passing, parking on sidewalks and double parking. Many roads outside the larger cities are not maintained and mountain roads tend to be much worse, with little guardrail or otherwise. This is true of most of the Balkan countries, however Bosnia and Albania were the worst in terms of road conditions and parking. We found Albania slightly worse, with many unmaintained and narrow roads and bad drivers. We had many near misses on accidents here. Hope this helps!

@@gabbettfamilytravels thats interesting. I am from Bosnia but never visited Albania but saw videos of people mentioning people passing while driving, but I have never seen that here so I was curious how it was in Albania. Was it worse in Republika Srpska than in Mostar/Sarajevo?

@@maxximum9553we drove around Banja Luka and then to Jajce and I think I would say we found those drivers and roads worse than near the capital. We found driving in/near Mostar and to Sarajevo was a bit easier and road conditions were quite good.

Hi .I hope you enjoy Albania 🇦🇱. I know the roads are bad and so are the drivers 😂😂😂😂but that's the beauty of Albania 🇦🇱. It's different. And if you knock few people of their bikes don't worry to much just drive off coz don't have CCTV around the country 😂😂😂. Enjoy your stay in Albania.

@@albania8982hahahaha I laughed so hard at this. 😂😂😂 we love Albania, can’t wait to come back!

Glad you enjoyed it!

We are definitely planning a Baltics road trip soon! We actually just spent a few days at the Christmas markets in Krakow. We can’t wait to head back ❤

Glad you liked it!

Thank you! It’s a relatively small city and all the main sites are in walking distance of each other (minus the Slavin memorial). I would probably say 3 days would be sufficient to see everything at a leisurely pace!

Devinsky Castle is worth seeing

Devin Castle yes definitely... ​@@tomaskollar2571

aww thank you!

Thank you!

Definitely one of our faves!

Hi! This was filmed last year on Christmas Day!

@@gabbettfamilytravels 👌👌🤣

@@harryarora9277 just tourists!

@@gabbettfamilytravels okay Enjoy

@@harryarora9277 have a blast!

We knew it would be crowded in August but we still had a great time. We love Slovenia and can’t wait to go back!

Awesome! It’s definitely one of our favorite cities in Europe

@@annawong5027 thanks for watching! This trip was a year ago and I’m still drooling over that cake! Slovenia is such an amazing place that’s it’s hard not to miss. Wishing you many fun travels!

I’m so glad the video helped! Traveling with kids is always tough because you want to make sure they have a good time too (even tougher with a 1 and 3 year old!). So happy you had a great trip ❤

Yes it cost me 90 euros!

Which tour did you use? Thankyouuu

@@wijoyonitisastro1871the company is called Gravity Tandem Paragliding flygravity.com/

Thanks for your reply. This was the first time we had this encounter and over our time of 3 months in Turkey we had many more encounters like this. We came to realize that this is normal and that the people of Turkey are some of the kindest we have ever met.

You obviously did not read what we wrote! We came to realize that this is normal in Turkey and embraced it. We have never thought of Turkey as an unsafe country or we would never have gone there. Coming from America our first instinct is to be fearful and uncomfortable of things that are not common in our home country. We truly love Turkey and the people but if you grew up in America you would understandably be questionable at first. Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much! Slovenia is so wonderful and was one of our favorite places. The gorge is so so beautiful and even the walk back was beautiful. But carrying kids on your back makes it a bit tougher than it should be. But I'm sure letting a 3-year-old walk would have been even tougher! Definitely arrive early and try to get a parking spot at the first parking lot rather than taking the shuttle and if you have young kids, probably plan to take a more leisurely and slow day than us. Maybe stop at the cute cafe on the walk back and grab some yummy dumplings. Hope your trip is magical!

That’s awesome! Some of the best beaches we have ever seen. We can’t wait to go back! Enjoy your holidays this year ♥️

Our favorite country ❤️

Glad you enjoyed. We would love to visit India someday!

I believe this was the first week of September 2023

Oh my gosh, I didn’t notice that before! When the other guy lifts his shirt I can see something but I can’t say for sure what it is. I hope not. That’s definitely scary 😮

@@gabbettfamilytravels hopfully they were undercover police or somthing 😐

Our pleasure!

It certainly was strange for us to experience being from America where this does not happen. Similar instances happened to us throughout our 3 months in Turkey in different cities as well. While this particular situation may not be customary, the kindness and hospitality in Turkey certainly is 😊 We always had strangers interacting with our kids, playing with them, offering food, so to us it seemed customary. Everyone has their own experience of course.