Hot Albanian Summer, my newest song

I am back. I was taken by this article I came across. It mixes what I think is a funny country, Albania, with undressed Scandanavian women. What could be better? I find Albania funny because it is a European country, which is supposed to be the cradle of Western thought (it shares a border with Greece, which was the cradle of Western civilization) yet is really backward, economically and intellectually. This was a country whose leader back in 50s or so, thought that Stalin was not extreme enough, so Enver Hoxha took them one better. It is a country whose government pension plan, in the early 90s, turned out to actually be one big Ponzi or pyramid scheme (that obviously worked out well). It is a country whose citizens give a new meaning to the terms "vendetta" and "blood feud". Families have been slaughtered all in the name of avenging a wrong or slight. I have joked that Albania is home to the European hillbillies. Check out this story.

Naked women leave police speechless
Fri Jul 28, 10:11 AM ET
Albanian police were speechless when around 30 Scandinavian women went topless, shocking local bathers and causing an uproar in an Albanian beach resort.
"Police only watched ... they could not approach the tourists because they spoke no English," a local newspaper in the southern Albania coastal town of Sarande said.
Albanian mothers dragged their children away and police received a barrage of complaints over the Scandinavian tourists.
The Scandinavians left after two hours when their guide was informed that nude bathing was banned on public beaches. Nudity and topless bathing are still taboo in the poor Balkan country.

I think the confusion comes not from nude Scandanavians but the Albanian police have never seen women without moustaches. That is just my take. Enjoy the heat and day. Ciao!