hello and welcome to the Edges of Earth. my name is Brock. today i'm in Vlorë, Albania.
it's sometime in early March. it's really cold. it's like 9:30 in the morning. i can't feel my hands. i can't feel my feet… my face. it's really cold.
so i haven't really explored this area very much, so i'm going to go for a walk today. there’s sunlight!
the last week has been tons of rain. so finally i get to go out and explore a little bit. let's go.
Amazing! Thank you! Thank you!
while walking over there for a while, i got really cold… really fast. so i decided to stop and grab some coffee to warm up.
awesome. thank you. thank you. cheers to this. oh, i don't think it’s… i don't think there's any sugar in it.
nope. oh that's so strong. i told him… i translated… i said i want really really strong and delicious coffee. so he comes back with this.
i love the coffee here. literally this is an entire cup of coffee, right here in this baby, baby little cup. it is ridiculously strong. i love it.
all right i think i'm back exploring again. i'm a little bit warmer. still chilly. i like following the coastline. i think i'm just going to walk along the coast for a very long way.
i had my drone ready to go this morning, but then when i connected it to the network, I guess, it shows that there's an airport just right over here. and there's a line that runs this way.
this is basically a giant no-fly zone because there's an airport so close. and they take off and land in this exact direction. so if the airport was facing this way, it'd be no problem.
but unfortunately it's this way, so i couldn't show you. so anyway, i think my future plans... so i think here's here's what's going to happen today. i'm going to, kind of, show you what it's like in this area.
we're going to walk around. at the top of this mountain there is an old, like, castle. really, really old. from like the 1500s, or something like that. and i'm probably gonna go there. i'll be able to fly there and kind of show you the bird's eye view.
but today, i think we're just walking along the coastline, showing you some buildings. i don't know…enjoying the day.
the water is really, really, clear. i'm not sure if you can see at the bottom… all of the little black dots. those are all sea urchins.
like, if you were to step on one, that would go into your foot. that basically happened to me when i was in the Philippines. that was fun.
so as you can see next to me, there's a wonderful beach here. and right now it's the early part of march and they have a lot of cleaning crew out here. everybody's removing all the garbage that has accumulated over the the winter, i suppose.
they're kind of preparing for the spring and the summer, which is coming obviously soon. so, it's really cool. it's a really really nice beach.
i can just imagine in the summer, this place would be absolutely loaded with people!
i just sat down for a moment and a man came up to me and he tried to communicate to me.
i kind of understood what he was saying based on body language. he asked me what i was doing… where i was from. i pointed to him and i said “you are Albanian”. i said “i am American”.
he says “ah okay”. i said ‘only english’ and i got out my phone and did a little translation.
i just said, “I’m exploring your city for the day, just for fun”. and he says “ah okay”. so he was very happy that i translated. and he says “ah okay”.
the language is different, but i understood what he said, which he said something like ‘have a good day, enjoy’. something like that. because some of the words are are similar.
kind of like french and english or Italian and english or Spanish and english. some things are kind of similar. so i knew what he was saying.
i said ‘thank you’ in in the local language, which is “Faleminderit”. and his face, just, had the biggest smile ever!
and he he basically wanted to give me a hug, but i was sitting on the ground. he was so happy. and then he said ‘goodbye’, and then he, kind of, walked back to his car.
i've walked so far that the sidewalk has run out. there's no room left for pedestrians to walk. i guess i could go to the other side now.
it's quite the journey. i just keep walking and walking. i don't know what i'm looking for. i'm really not looking for anything, i guess. just enjoying the day. i'm starting to get warmer. that's nice. i still can't feel my fingers or my nose. it's pretty cold.
but as long as i keep walking i i stay warm enough. so i decided to stop for a moment, find a beautiful place right along the ocean.
i don't know if you can hear the ocean or not. it's like right here. it's just amazing.
it's below me. i'm going to sit here for a minute, have something to drink. i'm getting thirsty after i had all that coffee.
i have, i don't know, this is very common here. lemon soda. i don't know the brand. but it's really good. it's like the perfect ratio between lemon and sweetness and tartness. it’s…they got it figured out pretty good.
so, anyway, i'm gonna sit here and relax a little bit and enjoy the view.
I finished my lemonade and heading back up. and keep walking, i guess. i think it's about 12 o'clock, something like that. i'm not really hungry yet.
i am so far away from home, it's unbelievable. like the city is really, really, really, far back that way.
oh by the way, the reason i kind of came here is A) because of the view. i kind of seen the view here.
and B) the no fly zone stops. like, it’s like right here. so i should be able to fly out here.
it's really windy though, i'm not sure if i can. but i'll try. but everything else over there is kind of blocked. so this is kind of why i came over here to scope out a nice little spot.
you can see there's still snow on the mountains up there. the coastline is unbelievable. this would be awesome to rent a motorcycle to drive through the winding roads.
i guess i came at the wrong time. i need to come back in the summer. looks like this whole restaurant bar thing is just… i can imagine it full of people in the summer.
just a beautiful, beautiful, place. but no one's here because it's just too cold. my
god! this place would be literally amazing to come in the summer! there's so many restaurants,
so many bars along the coastline. and it's just unbelievably beautiful too. it's a shame
that i'm here at this season. and i don't think i will be here when it's warm enough.
i think i'm gonna leave before that happens, unfortunately. So anyway, i don't know… i think i should stop walking because, there's like, nothing else here. i think I’ve reached the end.
that's seriously got to be like the biggest knot in a tree i've ever seen in my life. the thing is huge!
i just finished up lunch. i had a burger and some fries. and a bottle of water that i ordered but i didn't drink because i was just too cold. so i got a little bit of cool information from the man there.
i didn't film there because the music was so loud. i didn't want to get like copyright violations on youtube. What was I going to say?
ah, i asked him about the mountain up there and i found an easy way to get there. basically i was thinking about taking a a local taxi, but i've heard that it's quite
expensive. so he said if i go to a specific area, there are buses that take you to the top for a significantly cheaper price. so i just have to walk to that little bus area.
so that will be on my list of things to do soon. but it opens up at 8am, and it's gonna be so cold at the top of that mountain at this time of the year. i'm probably gonna freeze to death.
i honestly don't know what else to say or show you. i'm kind of walking back home now. i can't really feel my body. i think i want to go and crawl under the covers and and chill out.
and i don't know, just get warm.
i'm seriously cold. i'm gonna go home and make a nice cup of hot tea and justmaybe start editing this video.
anyway, that's it for the day. hopefully you enjoyed looking around this cool little town. i'm gonna run. hope you all enjoy your day.
thank you all for watching. remember, your time is running out… start living! take care.