It's about a 15 minute taxi ride from my hotel to the foot of Mt Dajti and the start of the longest and highest Gondola cable car ride I have ever been on. It spans 4.2km, rises across the valleys and up the 1.6km high mountain at a speed of about 6m per second, which means the ride takes about 13 minutes.
The clouds were low, but not on the mountain as my Gondola rose up the mountain this morning, but I had only been on top of the mountain about 10 minutes, taken the obligatory photos of the city from the cliffs edge, walked up towards the forest when the clouds came down, and so did the snow. At first it was wet and sharp but it soon turned into light but steady flakes which quickly covered the old snow carpet and turned the whole mountain into quite a beautiful 'christmas postcard' with pine trees dusted with fresh snow and previously quiet, sober adults and young people into snow ball throwing monsters.
