Category Archives: Daily Life in Tirana

New Year’s Dinner and My Family’s Turkey Tradition

The New Year’s Dinner tradition continues to be one of the major times of the year when Albanians like to eat a lot and gorge themselves on all sorts of foods and drinks. Though it has diminished somewhat, I have … Continue reading

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Estimating the Costs of Living in Tirana, Albania

In the past few weeks I’ve had a couple of people write to me to ask about the costs of living in Albania. While, I am not the expert in this case I did a little bit of research to … Continue reading

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Do you notice any similarities with Albanian TV channels?

As I do every morning, even today I was roaming around the net to some of my preferred sites when I stumbled upon this post by Seth Godin, who is well known marketer. Anyway, the topic of his blog post … Continue reading

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Sorry, I can’t hear you, I’m deaf and I stink – of smoke!

Well, though that is not true for me, it can be so if you hang around Tirana’s pubs and bars, especially around the Block area at night time. Elevated levels of music noise and smoke-filled rooms are an all-year-round problem … Continue reading

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Earthquake shakes Tirana at 11:50 PM

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 … Continue reading

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Enjoy Tirana while you can!

It’s the end of the summer season and the weather has started to cool a little bit. But more interestingly, majority of the people are either on vacation or out of town. This is quite visible by the reduced number … Continue reading

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Great Presentational Video For Albania

I found this great presentational video for Albania. It is only 7:49 seconds long and it does a pretty good summary of the most important facts about anyone being introduced for the first time to Albania. However, it is also … Continue reading

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