From Tirana back to Hangzhou : Some People Juggle Geese

Again, a journey of many pieces, though not nearly as many as to arrive:

from the hotel to the airport (short taxi)
from the airport terminal to the plane (very short shuttle bus ride—we could have just walked)
from Tirana to Frankfurt (short flight, medium-sized plane)
from the plane to airport terminal (shuttle bus)
from Frankfurt to Shanghai (lonnnnnng flight, big plane)
from Shanghai home to Yuhang District, Hangzhou (we hired a driver… convenient!)

See below for photos of:

Tirana International Airport
transfer at Frankfurt Airport
interior of Air China plane
Shanghai Pudong International Airport
and something surprising I saw online after reaching home

Tirana International Airport

It’s a nice, modern, one-terminal airport.

Arguably Escheresque but Purposely Obscure Self-Portrait in Shiny Surface #73

Same same but landscape. (If the other one is a self-portrait… is this a self-landscape?)

On the glass at the gate is a cheerful message (“Have a good flight!”) in 9 languages.

Presumably, the languages are ordered by importance. Hence, the language pecking order is: 1. Albanian 2. English 3. Italian 4. French 5. German 6. I think that’s Turkish? Yes, confirmed. 7. Spanish 8. a Slavic language (Google Translate says Polish) 9. Arabic (presumably). It’s likely that this list reflects where tourists and business travelers are from more than it reflects languages used by Albanians, but if you ask me, Greek is conspicuously absent. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the language situation in Albania is complex.