“Albania 🇦🇱 ~True Story”

• July 11, 2020
• By Pen n Daryl
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True Story. A first-hand account from where we are currently at; in Albania 🇦🇱 

Here in Albania, we had the pleasure of staying on a farm with a local family, in the high North: Albanian Alps. The daughter of the family speaks pretty good English, and I was able to ask her questions, about a story her father told us yesterday, while driving us to Theth National Park. His English was broken, but I got the gestures of his story, which must have been triggered after seeing an old bunker in the mountains, left over from the war.

I spoke with his daughter this morning and got permission to share her fathers story. She was able to fill in the missing pieces I could not understand, fully, yesterday, from her father.

When this man was a young 18 year old, he and a friend tried to escape the tyranny communistic rule which had taken over his beloved country, in the NOT so distant past. While hiking through the harsh and rugged Alps, on the run in the Albanian Alps, they were spotted by a women (obvious a rat against her own fellow countrmen) and she reported them to the dictating authorities. During their capture, the young man’s friend was killed, and this man was beat to the point of brain damage leg injuries, and the breaking of his teeth.

This man was then imprisoned for 18 years, and endured more torture than anyone can imagine, till the fall of communism, when he was finally released from the prison camp.

As testimony to this mans strong will and strength, he went on to marry, and build a beautiful family of four children; all hard workers, along with the mother and him. They have created a beautiful Homestay, which they can be and obvious are very proud of. 

We were so honored to spend four nights with this lovely family on their property, eat amazing wholesome farm-grown foods, and observe the life of Boge Village around us.

We will never forget our time here, or the truth of a horrendous story about innocent lives, ruined by socialism and communism.