Got an Invitation to a Technology Festival in Spain
Getting an invitation to go somewhere is always nice. It makes you feel special and it’s a real way to know that you have contributed or done something for which you are now being somehow recognized. But sometimes you get an invitation because the people organizing a European-wide event needed to have representatives from your [...]
Cabriole Mercedes – seen only in Albania!
May be you may have seen some crazy pictures from China or Cambodia of people carrying about 2000 empty bottles of water on their bicycle or stacking a bunch of chickens on their motorcycle, or even of the horse riding in the back of the car. You know the web is full of those pictures. [...]
15 Pictures and Impressions from around Albania
Fellow blogger, Fiona, recently made a trip around Albania after which she put together a short post with pictures and impressions about 15 things she learned from the different cities and towns she traveled too. Here comments…
Wasting time getting your new ID card
Being respectable citizens, recently, my parents and I went to apply for our own identification cards at the local municipality office. Due to the fact that I may be traveling at the end of the month, I wanted to make sure that I would not encounter any last moment difficulties with the airport authorities as [...]
EU to Liberalise Visa Regime for Albania in 2009
The liberalization of the visa regime with the EU is a much expected event for all Albanians. We long to be free to travel. Well, looks like things are moving up, but it will still be up to our government fulfilling all the EU requirements, including biometric identity cards and the fighting of organized crime, [...]
My Frustration with the Croatian Embassy
In the last couple of weeks I’ve had to travel to two different countries for work related activities. I love traveling, but at the same time it does take some preparation each time I do, which is fine but what continues to be a major issue is the visa process. More recently I traveled to [...]
Pictures from Budapest, Hungary
Last month, in May, I went to Budapest, Hungary for a two-days work trip. I absolutely loved the city, even though I did not get to visit a lot of historic buildings, I was able to have a very nice dinner on a boat over the river Danube, from which I did a lot of [...]
What will happen economically with Albania in 2013?
This past weekend I meet with a close friend of mine to talk about stuff. It started out as a casual chat over a cool beer, but it got serious once we started considering how the country would fare economically this upcoming elections year. He was reasonably concerned over the economic stability of the country [...]