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Albania Travel Podcast with Endrit Hoxha

Endrit Hoxha

Albania sits in Southern Europe along the Strait of Otranto, where the Adriatic and Ionian seas meet. Its terrain is mostly mountains and hills, with small plains along the coast and a mild temperate climate. The podcast follows a single resident approach, settling somewhere long enough to understand how Albanians actually travel their own country.

Across the series he moves from Tirana and the port of Vlorë to the southern town of Përmet, then north to Shkodër near the Montenegrin border. The episodes connect these places through shared history: Ottoman rule, the Italian and German occupations, and the communist period that followed. This is the range the show covers.

The show unfolds over at least two years, so the cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers shape each visit. He returns to places in different seasons, watching the interior stay cooler and wetter than the coast. That slow return is how the show builds a resident's map of Albania, one pass, one market town, one shoreline at a time.

Endrit Hoxha lives in Albania and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Endrit is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement.

A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers.

Part of Paris2Tokyo — one show for each of the world's hundred most-visited countries. Made for travelers, wherever you are going next.

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  • 6 episodes
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Episodes6

  • Yesterday · 10 min

    The Last Coffee in Tirana Before the Coast

    Endrit spends his final full day in Tirana tying up loose ends, enjoying one last slow coffee and byrek, and preparing for the journey south to the Riviera and Butrint. A reflection on the capital as the adventure shifts toward the coast.

  • Wednesday · 8 min

    The Slow Art of Leaving Tirana

    Endrit spends his fifth day in Tirana learning the city's rhythms: a slow coffee in Blloku, the buzz of Pazari i Ri, and a late-night walk that makes him reconsider his itinerary. He also starts planning the trip south to the Riviera, with practical note…

  • Tuesday · 11 min

    The Weight of Stone and Signal

    Endrit tackles the last of his Tirana paperwork and reflects on the city's layered past, from the Sigurmi's House of Leaves to the bunkers beneath the boulevards. A mid-episode meal and a walk through Pazari i Ri ground the day in the present, before a l…

  • Monday · 9 min

    The Art of the Xhiro: Tirana's Evening Ritual

    Endrit embraces his third day in Tirana by learning the city's most sacred daily ritual: the xhiro. From the Grand Park lakeside promenade to a traditional dinner in Blloku, he discovers why slowing down is the fastest way to understand Albania's capital.

  • Sunday · 10 min

    Sunday in Tirana: Markets, Mountains, and a Flat

    Endrit settles into his flat in Komuna e Parisit, explores the Pazari i Ri market on a Sunday morning, takes the Dajti cable car to escape the heat, and maps out plans for the Riviera and the wild Vjosa valley.

  • Saturday · 10 min

    Arriving in Tirana: First Steps in the Capital

    Endrit Hoxha lands in Tirana for his first summer in Albania. In this debut episode, he navigates paperwork, banks, and SIM cards, takes a first walk through Skanderbeg Square and Blloku, and figures out how the city really works—buses, furgons, and café…