New Mattress

Trying to be a little more comfortable. When we moved into the apartment on the third floor we only had two twin beds that we tied together to make one bigger bed. We decided we needed to have something a little more comfortable so we went shopping, which in Albania is much more difficult. We found a little whole in the wall mattress store and purchased the largest mattress they sold, 6 foot 3 inches square, 190 cm and 11 in deep. They had to order it from a town north of us and it took a week to get it to Vlore. They delivered it in a dun-dun and tried to hall it up the stairway but it didn't fit, it was too big. We then tied it with a rope and hefted it up three floors over the balcony. This was the excitement of the day for everyone in the area, they all stopped what they were doing and watched. It was so heavy that we broke a piece of the balcony cement off around one of the metal posts. There is no such thing as a soft mattress but it is much nicer not having a crack down the middle of the bed.