Appearances can be deceptive.

In some ways, the articulated lorries made us feel a little better. Clearly, the narrow, winding mountain road could take large traffic. In other ways, however, it tested our nerve. Albanian drivers have no qualms about nipping around lorries, or even other cars already overtaking them, on blind bends, regardless of what might be coming.

Also, in a Beast-sized truck, confrontations with artics in places where our offside wheels had to trust a crumbling road margin abutted to the edge of a cliff made the drive on the main highway to Sarandë somewhat more adrenalin infused than we expected.