Ferrari Hotel Tirana

... von Envar Hodscha jedenfalls ist heute eine Disco, Envar Hodscha, d** Albanien 40 Jahre lang regi**t hat, ist heute in einem namenlosen Grab auf einem gewoehnlichen Friedhof begraben. Seine Statue ist ebenfalls z**truemm**t, auf dem Zentralplatz steht nur noch die Statue von Skand**beg, dem nationalen Helden.

Albanien geho**te auch zum ottomanischen Reich, ab** ein Alban**, d** von den Ottomanen in Byzanz ausgebildet wurde, hat einen Aufstand ausg ...

... this area are incredibly cheap.

The ride reveals a country that appears as poor as 3rd world ones such as I have seen in parts of South America and Asia. Used tires, partially filled cans of oil, milk in recycled coke bottles, donkeys hauling trailers along the main road (as were cattle) …

Tirana is a very crowded city that is filled with cars that are too packed to move. Pedestrians challenge cars for right of way. Traffic police are widespread but seem ...

... case mostly Italian. I don't know if that's because the country was practically annexed by Mussolini at one point, and the Italian language's usage enforced, or because the two both borrowed heavily from Greek way back when in the formative years of Europe. Maybe but for a few accidents of history, instead of getting romantic with our lovers, we'd all be getting lyrical... hey, wait a minute...whatever... So when I go to the market I start using ...

... en majorite et leur heros national est chretien-catholique; il les a delivre de l'emprise de la turquie, mais ce dernier pays est swans doute le pays qui exerce le plus grand influence culturelle sur l'albanie, etc etc... verifier sur wikipedia pour les dates de sa vie... permettez-moi de vous partager mon evaluation de ce voyage et des questions qui me restent. 1.evaluation:- je me suis depayse;-j'ai manque de contacts etablis avant de partir ...

... which queue might be the quickest. I stumped for the middle one but after 10Min's or so taking in the scene and observing the Albanian's run through immigration, dump their luggage, greet awaiting family and friends, before running back through immigration again to have their passports checked, I realised that I was getting no closer to the counter and that in fact the line of people in front of me seemed to be getting longer. It was at that moment I realised that the notion of a ...

... bag to throw away. She watched out the window as the little girl threw it on the ground and got back into the bus. Teaching young kids to throw their trash on the ground is not going help clean up the country. Riding the buses through the Albanian countryside, I saw concrete bunkers all over the place, looking like ugly, large mushrooms sticking out of the ground. These were all built under communism when Hoxha decided that they needed to ...

... a clientele that looked like they belonged in Pacha in Ibiza. Whereas Leeds costs 3 pound a drink, we got wasted in Tirane for about a tenner and had enough change for about 12 kebabs. We ate 2. Still with me, nearly finished now. We feel indebted to our hosts, without meeting them our experiences may not have been the same, but even so we would like to suggest people seriously consider Albania as a summer holiday destination. The people are friendly, genuine, and ...

... sip. Couldn't finish it though, it tasted like a lethal mix of sambuca and vodka. After lunch, Kaye kindly volunteered us to share our testimonies. They reallz appreciated us coming, they couldnt believe we'd come all the way from England to visit them (!) Back in town, we had another team meal, which was good to catch up with people and see how everyone's days had been. Jamie had a traditional ...

... stray dogs and garbage absolutley everywhere, you wonder how the hell 90% of cars are Mercedes. People drive like its asia. Honk at everything. Drive so ****. Half the streets its cross and pray. Sometimes theres the crossing man, but half the time it doesnt work. Also in Albania there is bunkers everywhere. Little cement mushrooms. The defence obssessed old president or whatever had 700 000 thousand put all over the country. He made the guy who invented it test it out ...

... ministry oppurtunities. these consisted of organizing youth group type of activities, teaching english classes, music, drama, and other things. it was a lot of fun. so ya i think the biggest thing most of us will take from this week is just an appreciation of the amazing hospitality that was shown to all of us regaredless of our host families (usually fairly poor ...