Sight Seeing Trip

After our Sunday meetings and a YSA fireside yesterday we decided to take a little break today and drive down the coast a bit.  All-in-all it was a pretty fun drive.  We were able to get out of the city and tourist type stuff and into the country.  It was fun to see cows and sheep grazing in the fields, vineyards and terraced hillsides and some of the most ornate gates ever.  I found it interesting to see palm trees and pine trees growing in the same environment. 
It was a pretty rainy day and we got lost a couple of times on some very narrow, muddy, and flooded roads but the mountains were majestic and the coast line very picturesque.  When the road started winding its way up into the mountains, and we crossed a few washouts and a bridge with a gaping hole on the downhill side we decided it was time to turn around and head back to Vlore.  Just as we did we came to this really nice rest stop, wayside, or little kiosk.  We stopped got a drink and headed back to the apartment.  It was a nice diversion and the traffic was pretty light.  I would sure hate to drive that road in the summer when there might be a lot more cars on the road.  The "rules of the road" are pretty loose around here.

Here are a few pictures to go along with the narrative: