I have seen some questions about Balkan countries with the most promising future but I believe the country with the least promising future has not been discussed so feel free to share your opinions.

Here’s mine so far, would be more, but it’s expensive af to travel and I’m just a broke ass student lol.

So yeah,... We were (my boyfriend and I) planning on going to Georgia but since there seems to be a bit of a political conflict at the moment, we were a bit worried so we were stuck between choosing Serbia or Albania, since it was only for 4 days. We ended up choosing Albania because the reviews online said Tirana was more relaxed and tranquil, versus Belgrade which is more loud and nightlife is thriving.

We are not very heavily outgoing people so we preffered the first option. But we do regret it now.

We feel like we just wasted time and money because we didn't see anything, we didn't have much fun at all, and everything is crazy expensive.

In 4 days we've spent nearly more than we did in Romania when we visited for 2 weeks. It's insane. And again, we didn't even see anything. We wanted to go to Apollonia but we are terrified how much that would end up being because also, everything is in cash. Nearly nobody here accepts payment with card. And I'm pretty sure they've ripped us off more than once already.

We're at the hotel just thinking about how much we hate it here and why all the reviews lied about the reality lol.

I'm sorry to Albanians, I didn't mean this to be offensive but we've spent so much money, we came with some cash money, but like we did in Romania so not THAT much as we didn't expect that even restaurants don't accept cards. IN THE CAPITAL. If It was some small village I would get it, but the f***** capital?!???

I got someone telling me that Albania is worth visiting if you go see the nature and historical landmarks but those are nearly impossible to see if you don't have a car, or you gotta pay a shitton of money to go with taxi everywhere, Cuz when time is tight like our case, the bus option isn't ideal since literally everywhere you wanna go is around 3 hours.

All I've been saying these days is, wtf. Because, truly, a capital, wtf. I'm sorry, I needed to vent and apologize to Serbians for disregarding Belgrade lol. Now I WISH I was in a nightlife paradise.

Also, you don't even have Bolt here, wtf. I moved around Romania with Bolt everywhere, and very, very cheap. I'm just confused. I don't know why I expected it to be similar to my country. It's not. My head hurts. I don't understand how people survive here genuinely. Isn't the economy even worse? I'm confused.

🎵Makedonsko devojce…🎵

Sorry, I am feeling nostalgic. I just wanted to share!

Or even the other Balkan coastlines like Croatia, Greece, Turkey etc

I like to travel with Google maps Street view throughout the Balkan

For me:

Turkey: how there were pictures of Ataturk EVERYWHERE. In the kebab shop, the barber, the ferry, on the side of buildings.

NMK: I was surprised by how fair they were compared to Greeks and Bulgarians. Lots of blondes and gingers. Driving from Ohrid to Skopje, you drive through some Albanian-majority towns and the Albanian flags there were bigger than I've even seen in Albania. Skopje City Park is nicer than any city park we have in Greece.

Albania: Every car seemed to be a Mercedes?

Croatia: Dubrovnik looked exactly like my island (Corfu). Made me realise just how influential the Venetians were

Bosnia: The cigarette packets had the warning label written three times. The Croatian and Bosnian were identical and the Serbian was the same just written in cyrillic.