The Music in the Cafes Is Italian, and the Menus Are Italian

i think albania is trying very, very hard now too, to be as european as possible. So there're's that mix of wounded nationalism, which is intensely albanian and a half conscious desire to be much more italian than albanian. And i find myself falling for that. There's this other restaurant two blocks from us where, im, i got the only dirty looks i've gotten in albania. People have been generally very welcoming. They like having foreigners here. But at the same time, you know, even in the restaurant names,. It's as cheesy as that sounds, it means a lot, because that's, that's the focus