Nirvana Hotel Tirana
Rr. e Kavajes 96/2 Tirana, Albania
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Amazing Albania
... Albania and it has wide tree lined streets with quite upmarket shops the women are all well dressed.Great shoes and bags but we are not even looking.We sat at an outside cafe and had wine and nibbles for 5.50 so cheap.
We leave tomorrow for Croatia it has been well worth travelling through Albania and tomorrow to Montenegro
The tour has been very easy, small bus only nine of us so it is good.All Australians except for two Canadians .All good company
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Eliza Dushku and the Mayor of Tirana!
... I replied. He called out 'Hey Eliza, come and talk to some Australians'. She came over and we had a nice chat to her about what she was doing (making a documentary about Albania for PBS), she told us she was Albanian and showed us her Albanian flag tattoo and then the man who was on TV put out his hand to us and said 'Hi, I'm the mayor'. We chatted to them for a while (all this was being filmed) then some photos were taken of ...
ALBANIA-first part
... everything in Albania is much coloured as reaction to grey and black colours time during the communist era).
I had dinner at the restaurant of my hotel,an original but kitschy grotto-cave and I knew there some young boys speaking italian whom gave me a lot of information about their country (Mafia, low salaries, political corruption, etc...). On the same night I knew a nice person, a professor of Albanian literature who offered me in a nearby bar a glass of the ...
Nothing to Balk(an) At!
... using my training as an anthropologist (I received my degree back in '72) I came to the conclusion that he was telling us that he and his family were from Rila and were heading there in 10 minutes if we wanted to follow their car with ours. Chris was convinced he was just trying to ask us for money. But, I was convinced of my interpretation. Sure enough, a few minutes later, he got into his car, made some more confusing gestures and took off. About ...
Day 121 : The New HNIC
... the-cob. As we neared the city things started to pick up a little as we suddenly were amazed by mega-malls and expo buildings as large as we'd ever seen (think over-the-top Yank stylings) and the streets were now not only paved but also lit.
We then entered the main part of the city, and a transformation occurred once again, and this time we were really amazed. What had once been a dreary communist nightmare of uniform apartment ...


