Beach bunkers in Albania

I was having lunch with a colleague this week when she told me she vacationed in Albania(!). I vaguely recalled Zach mentioning on his blog that the malevolent dictator there built 700,000 concrete bunkers over the span of four decades. Talk about paranoid.

She shared these photos from the seaside town of Sarande. The bunkers have been converted into cafes. Plus, you can see at least one of the ubiquitous Mercedes W201s in the second picture.