BRAIN AND HEART
DARIO'S LIFESTYLE

A reflection on travel and on time not to be wasted, but used to seek that happiness which is the true meaning of life. Brain and heart offers itinerant trips in the Balkan area, to discover beautiful corners of the world.

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WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO HOST YOU ON EASY TRAVEL HOSTING! WE WAS VERY AFFECTED BY THE TITLE OF YOUR SITE, BRAIN AND HEART. WHY THIS NAME?

My motto at the beginning was “designed with the mind and made with the heart”. In English then it was more “musical” and it reminded me “BraveHeart” and therefore I chose my first domain instinctively.
Bad choice, I wouldn't do it again and I don't recommend doing it. After 5 years I opened “Holidays in Albania” a less instinctive and more reasoned choice developed after reading dozens of manuals on SEO.
“Brain and Heart” but in the meantime it has become a “brand” (despite everything) and I will keep the name (and domain) for my institutional site where I will describe all the activities that, in the meantime, have been added to my initial project.

YOU ARE SPECIALIZED IN ORGANIZING TRIPS IN THE BALKANS AREA, WHY MADE THIS CHOICE?

Our main office is in Tirana, in the center of Albania. The Balkan area has just returned from a period of dictatorship and war. The tourism potential combined with the proximity to Europe and the affordability make this area the most promising tourist basin of the next decade.

We are here because we want to contribute to the growth of this sector, to the rebirth of these countries and to the rediscovery of a world that for too long has remained closed by absurd political ideas.

LET US DREAM, TELL US ABOUT THE FOOD OF THE BALKAN AREA!

Italian gastronomy and the enormous variety of typical products that exist in Italy are unparalleled. It is impossible to compete, especially when we are talking about small, poor countries that have been victims of isolationism for decades. But having said this premise, let's say that in Albania the food is divine: they are mostly shepherds.
No family in Albania is without its flock of sheep. The national dish is roast lamb. But also all goat's milk derivatives are always available on Albanian tables! Yogurt here is used for drinking, for making desserts, for cooking meat. Vegetables are also always present on the table and cooked in a thousand different ways. There are products that we would never think of eating but which here are delicacies; for example grapes.
We only know the fruit but in Albania the leaves (spring ones) are also collected (even to the detriment of fruit production) to make one of the most delicious dishes in which they are used to wrap rice, meat and cheeses. Even if the products are many fewer than ours and the cuisine is very poor, no one ever leaves an Albanian table dissatisfied!

WHAT DO YOU DO TO MAKE YOUR LIFE GREENER?

One of the first things I did when I started promoting tourism in Albania was to explore the coasts by sailing boat.
So I started promoting sailing cruises. Then bike trips and finally trekking. I always participate in my tours in person and I like to organize trips where the travel is eco-sustainable.
Unfortunately, however, another specialty of mine is motorbike travel and riding around on large motorbikes burns petrol and CO2. We try to avoid waste, not get dirty and behave well.

When I reach remote locations, in the woods or in the mountains, I always carry rubbish bags with me. I start collecting waste and, unfortunately, I almost always fill it all up.
I like to think that where I pass the world is cleaner and that my passage is marked by cleanliness and not by waste abandoned in nature.
cruise to Albania 13
cruise in Albania 15
A trip to discover Lumi i Shales. 5

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