The New Year is quite a major celebration time for all Albanians everywhere. Families and friends come together to be with each other and many preparations are made especially for the dinner on the New Year’s Eve, which lasts for several hours into the New Year day. The dinner celebration is often marked by large [...]
Snow has become somewhat of a rare thing in Tirana. But today, it snowed! The forecast was correct and for a couple of hours the whole city was laid with a thin white blanket of snow. It was truly enjoyable to walk out in the snow and watch it land on the glass of the [...]
If you drive a car in Albania, like I do, then you have to put fuel in it every so often. And like every Albanian you too worry about the high prices that you pay for it. I have to go through the same ritual of putting fuel in my car every week or sometimes [...]
I had planned to write a post about this event, but due to my Internet problems, I never got around to writing a full post or even posting any of the pictures, which were not that good anyway. Nevertheless, a fellow blogger had put together a few pictures and text so instead I will point [...]
Some time ago I wrote about “Supermodel of the World†beauty peagent, which was organized in October here in Albania. Interestingly my post at that time would come up first in the Google searches and so many would visit my blog just because of it. Anyway, recently I did another search on that same topic [...]
The other day I went to get my car’s electronic system checked by a technician. There were some errors appearing on the dashboard that needed to get fixed. In fact those errors were nothing new to me. The car’s electronic system is such that every so many hundred kilometers it requires you to do a [...]
Back After 10 Days of Server Failure
It has been 10 days now since the server that hosts my Blog “failed due to a severe hard drive failure at approximately 7:30am” on 17 December 2007. Needless to say that the whole thing was frustrating to say the least, as all my websites are hosted on that server and this time of the [...]
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