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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM April 4, 1998
Sunrise (local): 6:21 a.m. Sunset (local): 7:08 p.m.	Weather 68°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 20 mi / 32 km Cumulative Total 3475 mi / 5595 km	Lat: 41° 18' 57" N Lon: 19° 49' 14" E Elev: 344 ft / 105 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Tirana
Where We're Staying: Naçi's Guesthouse
Places We Visited: Albanian Education Development Project (AEDP), Petrela Castle/Fortress
Featured Site: Albanian Education Development Project (AEDP)
Person of the Day: Olton (Toni) Hysenbegas and Ilir Zenku
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: burek; Breakfast: a feast of bread with a host of toppings (yogurt, a yogurt-cream combination, honey, etc.), warm milk with honey, and a cheese pastry; Lunch: ham and cheese sandwiches; Dinner: Greek salad, tomato salad, pizza; Olive count: 2001
Word of the Day: Albanian greetings
Tech Fact of the Day: The Albanian alphabet apparently has more letters it in than any other alphabet in the world. Or so we were emphatically told. How many letters does it have? 36. Many of the "extra" letters are for sounds that exist in English but require two or three letters. Examples of this is "ç" which sounds like the English "ch.": Flat Count (Cumulative): 22; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 28

Next Stop: Yugoslavia

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