06 Sep
Posted by Elvis as Albania & Albanians, Daily Life in Tirana, Personal
The night of Sunday, September 06, 2009 at exactly 11:50 PM an earthquake shook the buildings in Tirana. It was not strong enough to destroy anything, but it could definitively be felt on the 4th floor of the apartment building where I live.
To me this was my first experience aware during an earthquake. The other [...]
04 Sep
Posted by Elvis as Albania & Albanians, Albanian Blogger
I cannot say that I have read much of anything that the former Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha has written, but it was almost refreshing to read about one of his some 70 books from the perspective of an Englishman writing for the Guardian online.
Also the picture of the statue of the dictator in the main [...]