Today, when I learned about the possible return on Mr. Ylli Pango to the political and academic life my first reaction was: “what the ….” !
I feel sick and I stand on my opinion that he should not be allowed to reenter the political and much less the academic life of this country. I’ve heard [...]

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Today was probably the only day that it will ever snow in Tirana for the whole winter. I took some pictures just to document it for my self. Hope you enjoy it as well.

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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 put together some information on the living costs for a single person living in Tirana. [...]

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Yes, I was born on November 24 and today it’s my birthday. I love the messages that people send me and each one of them makes me more appreciative for the great family and friends that I have here in Tirana, in Albania and around the world. Speaking about the world, a good friend of [...]

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I was appalled when I learned about the beating of a well known journalist in Tirana by a well known businessman with ties to the current government. The incident was condemned by all major public and international institutions in the country. For more info I’ll just post the text of the article published by BalkanInsight.
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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 was “the problem with cable news thinking”. In his post he goes on to give [...]

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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 which gets worse in the colder seasons of the year.
Meanwhile, music noise levels are a [...]

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