Very soon after I arrived in Albania, my employers organised a week of meetings to take place in the small lakeside town of Pogradec. I was invited to spend the weekend with them, however due to my teaching commitments I was only able to visit for one day, which was not really long enough. Driving to Pogradec with an ADRA Albania worker after lunch on Saturday, I returned with the rest of the group on Sunday afternoon.

Pogradec is a small town about 140 kilometres south-east of Tirana, at the south end of a large, beautiful, and very deep natural lake named Lake Ohrid. The journey takes almost four hours to complete, since the road is fairly narrow and mountainous, and winds through some very beautiful yet perilously steep countryside.

We stayed in a comfortable hotel adjacent to the lake, about two minutes drive away from the Macedonian border. On Sunday morning we went for a walk along the lake, and enjoyed a marvellous lunch fish caught from the lake, which I am told is a very rare variety only found in one other location (the details of which I have forgotten).

I was a little disappointed that my stay was so short, the hotel and it's surroundings were so pleasant I could have stayed there for a whole month!