Through Albania on horseback with Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 26 January 2022

Dear AAA Members, friends

Our first event of 2022 is Robin Hanbury-Tenison's talk about the 2007 journey which he and his wife Louella made on horseback from Thethi in the North of Albania down to the southern border with Greece.  The talk will take place on 26 January, starting at 7pm UK time. Robin is well known as an explorer and horses are his favourite means of conveyance.  Interviewed by the Royal Geographical Society, he said that with a rucksack on your back, you see nothing but your feet, in a car you are insulated from the real world; but "on a horse, you have an intelligent animal doing all of the work and most of the thinking, leaving you free to look and listen, to communicate with those you meet".

So this talk is an ideal introduction to Albania, this hitherto isolated and enigmatic country, which is now a…