While most of Europe has been experiencing a very cold winter, here in Tirana the winter has been rather mild. Only these past few days the temperatures have gotten below the freezing point during the night. The snow is always held back by the mountain ranges surrounding the city and it rarely snows in. Only [...]

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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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If you are Albanian or someone working on learning the Albanian language then I would encourage you to delve a little deeper into understanding the roots and the development of this ancient language.
To help you with this process, out of the many different sources out there I would direct you to one scholar whom many [...]

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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 of people and cars on the streets everywhere you go.
Yes, even the city gets to [...]

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If you have been following the news lately then you must have heard about the European Commission’s decision to grant visa-free travel to three Balkan countries – Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, while Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo where left out for technical reasons.
From the people that I have been talking to as well as [...]

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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 very good to have just for reference purposes.
Great Presentational Video for Albania

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Lately someone send me an email to let me know that there was a German guy who is mountainbiking from Greece to Lago di Guardia, in Italy which on his way there will also pass through Albania.
Immediately I was reminded of a friend of mine who, together with some friends, just a few months ago, [...]

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