Simon Calder Made It To Albania! - 10/09/2024

[@preciousstone37]

I've just come back from Albania. First visit, was lovely. Will be going again ❤

[@HK-pp9ig]

Beautiful Albania; we just returned from a 5 week vacation in Albania. We visited, Shkoder and Theth in the north, Durres, of course we stayed in Tirana for several days, booked restaurants on the Dajti mountain slope, and one day actually drove about an hour past the mountain to ShenGjergj (Saint George) for a great dinner. We spent many days at the beach starting with two days in Durres, one in Diviaka, then we went to Vlore. While in Vlore we went to Zvernec beach very nice place especially for the kids, the beach is sandy and the water is clean, warm, and shallow; beautiful sunsets there; about two weeks altogether spent at Zvernec beach. We went one day visiting the ancient ruins of Apolonia (near Fier). After Vlore we went to Yale beach for two nights, one night in Dhermi beach, one day in Drimadhe beach; we stayed for six nights in Borsh beach visited Butrint ancient ruins stopped at Ksamil beach for a short time. Visited the city of Himare twice, visited Sarande. We stopped at almost every beach along the way from Vlore to Sarande. One day we drove the highway from the Vlora river and stopped by a small river in the middle of the mountains, there was a stone bridge from 1800s, when we arrived at the bottom of the slope there were several families from Poland and Ukraine bathing on the sand and rocks by the river... it was a beautiful place; quite a hike for us (LOL). Albania is beautiful, and it offers a wide variety for tourists, the mountains, the beach, historical places, and if you have time just go through the country side, the best food and welcoming people. Food prices at good restaurants were not as cheap as Simon is saying here, but definitely much cheaper than in other parts of Europe.

[@g.o.a.t1393]

As an albanian im happy to see tourists or foreigners who setlle in albania 😊

[@CosmicSeeker69]

@@g.o.a.t1393 give me three places of interest in your country - please? With a view to living long term please?

[@g.o.a.t1393]

@@CosmicSeeker69 hi , for a small country we are we have a lot touristic sites in Albania ,you can look for Tirana,Durrës,Saranda,Himarë,Dhërmi,Palasë beach,museum of Krujë,Blue eye Saradë region,Korça is beautiful aswell ,Berat city of 1000 windows,Skanderbeg square ,Vlorë ,mount Dajti for those who likes mountains and lot of other places in Albania to explore hope i helped u litlle bit

[@g.o.a.t1393]

@@CosmicSeeker69 i forgot aswell Velipojë ,Shëngjin,bunk art Tiranë

[@Iletmeknow]

@@CosmicSeeker69 hi there Albanian leaving in London for almost 30 years. Just a tip . I would suggest Tirana and durres for inland. For a beach i would suggest Vlora and head towards south all the way to saranda but visit the little town between and It could be your favourite spot or your long term settlement

[@nickengland4172]

Let me tell you it will be the number one tourist destination Few years ago me and me family were in Saranda Albania Loved it 👍🏿

[@TheGlaucias.Taulanti]

Thank you Simon, you are a gentleman enjoy your time

[@billyhoti]

Beautiful country ❤️

[@ritadhrami7058]

The most beautiful place to visit .Nice people, nice food..❤

[@starja8115]

Beautiful Albania 🇦🇱

[@matthewperrett4727]

I'm going durres in October.

[@Bogoga7777]

Don’t mate south is amazing 😉

[@LuigiMario-e1s]

Beautiful Country ❤

[@yllsonmici6610]

Beautiful Albania 🇦🇱 ❤️🇦🇱

[@laladada489]

Albania really has gorgeous beaches

[@eaglesland8093]

Thank you Simon .. you are gifted for your work..

[@xOrestt]

Ayy! Welcome in our country, enjoy staying and make sure you'll be all time outside, because there's a huge amount of things that you have to do since you're here 😂 Have a great time! We hope to see you next summer too!

[@AmarildoFecanji]

The best thing you can do in Albania is a bit of everything. A couple of days in Tirana, a couple in Durres and then some more in the south or north, exploring cities and villages, mountains, valleys or beaches. For UK prices you can easily afford to rent a car and stop to different locations and have an incredible time. Of course a hotel by the beach 6-7 days is nice too, but travelling around the country is the very best you can do. What I’ve noticed from many foreigners is that they often travel one time to visit the south and then another time to go to the north. This is a very special feature of Albania. A small country but it can easily surprise you with the incredible variety it offers. Big cities like Durres and Tirana are a bit chaotic, whereas the countryside is simply stunning.

[@dimphinapereira1502]

Beautiful Albania ..lovely

[@anitalusha8533]

Albanians are coming to Britain, and now, Britains to go to Albania 😊

[@GhostHunter2025uk]

Well shqipe Albanians are coming to uk for different reasons especially younger generations. But British are going for holiday 😂

[@g.o.a.t1393]

If i had only 500 £ monthly i would leave tomorrow UK forever​ and go live in Albania until my last breath@@GhostHunter2025uk

[@snoopyportfolio2072]

both European who gives a shit, people have been moving in Europe for millenia

[@yballiu]

Great man

[@klajdilamani8432]

Albania is beautiful beautiful mountains seaside is beautiful nice and clean and the people are very friendly end kind🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@Kk-Shqipe]

Hope you are having a good time in Albania Simon 🎉

[@kayM464]

Albania is a very beautiful country.

[@FatijonXotzaras]

Forca shqiperia ime e bukor 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@petewhiting4273]

Albania is great

[@leoportsmouth5138]

Simon only showed clips of central and bit of south , but let me tell you about north mountain of Albania is beautiful landscapes ❤

[@lq7335]

Very nice

[@andirrugia1014]

I've seen this little guy 😊two days ago alongside Durres "PLAZHI" beach. You mos welcomed my man!❤🖤

[@albusha5150]

Someone tell Simon Albania does not have only pizza and beer. He should visit the countryside for some authentic traditional Albanian cuisine. He will be pleasantly surprised. I think these two lovely anchors will jump on the plane this weekend and visit my country Albania.😂

[@snoopyportfolio2072]

Albania is wonderful🇦🇱

[@juniorsaka1512]

Beautiful country food is great people very nice love Albania 🇦🇱. Albania is changing new buildings new roads every day is building. Need to work on transport because them building new airports.

[@southepirote7676]

Serbs, Greeks and Nigel Farage disliked the video 😂

[@UnlimitedAspirations24]

@southepirote7676 - Indeed, it’s always them, I believe you !! When they can’t have or claim as theirs not only do they dislike it but if they could they would even delete this type of videos. Sadly that is true !! It’s because of this beauty that Albania possess, they are continuously trying to claim as theirs and off course bellow the land are natural resources .. That’s why they “ underground” paying ppl to spread hate and destroy all cultural sites that proves its antiquity that indeed it belonged to Albanian ancestors..

[@emiljardmuhametaj5189]

👏👏👏

[@hyllions8527]

Bring more british to Albania just to change the opinion about The Albanian and the culture over there, scotish will find a second home iam sure about it ❤ God Bless our Europe

[@samiademi6083]

Në Shqipëri nuk mund të ndryshosh Kulturen atje cdo i huaj mund të vijë të mar kultur duke filluar nga shtetet fqinje të Shqiperis…

[@GhostHunter2025uk]

Nuk ndryshon shqiptari jo lekuren e nderron zakonin se harron

[@samiademi6083]

@@GhostHunter2025uk nuk shof diqka në popujt tjer që kanë më mirë se Shqiptari veq me keq ndoshta.! Kan fukarallëkun sepse Sheipëria është me shekuj në fazen e mbijeteses nga invasit fqinje, dhe Shqiperia nuk pat popuj të ozurpuar që shtetet e tyre të i plaqkis dhe popujt e atyre shteteve të i shëndrroj në sllav siq kishin shtetet perendimore te Europes Ku dhe u pasuruan në mase. Por Shqiptaret kan krenari dhe ndërgjegje Kombëtare që sot shumë popujt europian nukë e kan.!

[@D.H.Alb.24]

@@samiademi6083 Ai tha qe te vijne me shume angleze per te ndryshuar opinionin negativ qe kane te huajt per Shqiperine dhe jo qe shqiptaret te ndryshojne kulturen. Eshte koment pozitiv, pse e merrni per keq?

[@armand-itomani3047]

Hello everyone I love your all

[@arga7836]

Of dear now were shafted. No more cheap flights lol.. accommodation it's always cheap, not to mention my dental work (£300 per implant, £80 root canal, £1.5 pint or bottle of lager,) gladly I can say no silly McDonald's, plenty of local takeaways with huge variety even for the fussy eaters.

[@anilazerelli4097]

Wow Simon you have gone to Albania?? Unbelievable

[@trasto41]

When you've lived for 37 years in Spain with the beach less than one minute away, you would be fed up of so much beach and 40 degrees for nearly 3 months of summer, exhausting ........ 🤪🤪

[@User12345fan]

Albania has more to offer than just beach, different type of towns, mountains, great food and culturally rich.

[@D.H.Alb.24]

Also historical places, ruins, architecture, food, mountains 🏔️. Albania 🇦🇱 has a lot to offer, not only the beautiful beaches

[@taulandadevaj7414]

👑👑👑👑

[@agronkrasniqi8158]

Tell that Nigel Farage

[@tiun19]

Nigel Farage has expired 😂

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Look where Simon is at he’s in Albania Little does he know is that some albanias do understand English but sometimes they don’t understand English

[@User12345fan]

They generally are pretty good, better than Spain, Italy and France. The younger generation are as good as the Dutch and the Scandinavians with English.

[@youngking226]

Mostly do

[@xOrestt]

​@@User12345fanThat's right hahah, I belong to the new gen (gen Z) and most of the time I hear and talk with my friends in english because it is more attractive, and there are more verbs or words that do actually sound way cooler than just traditional albanian 😂 I'm sure that in the future, when our gen is going to lead the country, more than 95% of people will talk english fluently...I do hope so...

[@i.kneopoint8382]

​@@xOresttGen Z,new gen doesn't mean good gen.in fact your gen is the most doomed gen. Look at yourself,albanian born that loves more another language rather then it's own.that's why your generation will not survive,because is in war with itself

[@albaniasummer1993]

What your point ?

[@torymeri1323]

Simon is a good man 🇦🇱 he should be Albanian 😂

[@lorik0109]

Paund gone low compared 2015 1£ 196 now 1£ 117 that is why is more expensive! Well done to brexit and conservator party 😁

[@richardbutler4488]

Simon must be earning a fortune for his punditry not forgetting all the trips he probably mostly gets for free or for pennies due to sponsorships and commercial PR trips.

[@CosmicSeeker69]

WHY Would anyone fly to a country and sit on a M-way?? You aren't going to see more of the country - you're going to see more of your hire car!

[@sarahduran1096]

No Simon , never mind the beard, he would cut you more important bits than your beard and hair😂😂😂

[@dfddwm]

Another sunbed covering the whole beach shite hole.

[@deansawaf7056]

Give him up to 3 months and he will be running 🏃‍♂️ out of Albania 🇦🇱, old man alone who doesn’t speak the language 😢.

[@remyremys5715]

Enjoy there 😊