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markowe
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Joined: 04 Oct 2007
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Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: Living in the wilds of Albania |
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| To the uninitiated, especially if they've read a book like The Accursed Mountains by Robert Carver, Albania sounds like the most scary, dangerous place on earth. But there are expats there too, who can dispel our foolish prejudices! |
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Fabiana
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
Posts: 3
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: Hey folks |
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Wanted to great you all. I am Albanian (actually half Albanian and half Italian) and travel all over East Europe. We change country every 2-4 years and definitively am one of the species pertaining to this crowd. In fact am planing to open a thread about Ukraine  .
Albania.....well, what can I say about it. To start with, I wwould say that one cannot appreciate or understand ANY country in the world if is not willing to "see inside"  .
I red a coment of a use about him driving a red car and stopped by the police....hehe, no doubt dude, they chitted you. You find this very often in Albania.
Any way, this was just to touch base and introduce my self to the crowd. Am willing to share and talk about any thing you foks like. I say ANY thing...
From Kiev is all for now,
Fabiana  |
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markowe
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: Re: Hey folks |
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| Fabiana wrote: |
Wanted to great you all. I am Albanian (actually half Albanian and half Italian) and travel all over East Europe. We change country every 2-4 years and definitively am one of the species pertaining to this crowd. In fact am planing to open a thread about Ukraine .
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Cool, you're the kind of weird, mixed-up person we encourage round here Please do write something about living in Ukraine as an Albanian! I've only been in Ukraine (Kiev) once, and it was a work visit, i.e. I saw nothing of Kiev, except I bought one of those cheesy Russian "military" watches!
| Fabiana wrote: |
| Albania.....well, what can I say about it. To start with, I wwould say that one cannot appreciate or understand ANY country in the world if is not willing to "see inside" . |
Very true, that's why we wanted to talk about the expat experience on this forum - living somewhere is a world of difference from just visiting. Though some people live in a foreign country for years and don't learn anything about it...
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| I red a coment of a use about him driving a red car and stopped by the police....hehe, no doubt dude, they chitted you. You find this very often in Albania. |
SORRY! That was just a little joke on my part - this sort of thing happens in Serbia (though not quite that extreme!) so I guessed it would sound like it might happen in Albania too! I am sure it doesn't REALLY, though..! |
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Fabiana
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
Posts: 3
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: Sorry it took so long |
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Hello again. I appologise that it took so long to drop a note here. I just had forgoten all my data (no surprise knowing me) and it took for ever to find my way bask here. But here I am.
I probably do not have the best "glasses" for this thread but do not forget, as I mnaried an Italian I was also experiencing his experience in Albania. It is amaizing how you see things that normally, with the local's eyes, do not notice.
Living in Albania, well, one has to deal with the electricity cuts, water shortage. It was so funny for my husband to read real estates announcements: "Nice house and nice location, water and electricity all day!!!". 
It very often becomes a problem,.....it is a problem if you do not have a generator and a rather big tank on top of your roof. Hehh.
But let's say also something nice about living in Albania. Do you know guys what is something I did not know was so grate until I moved to another country, like Ukraine? Fish, oh the fish. My mother lives right by the main market in Tirana and from her balcony I can see the fish market. Oh my God, I am telling you folks, you see things like that only in Italy or in Greece. Any kid of fish.....for a decent price. One can cook what ever you want with it.
Well. have to come back another time, and hope some one else can give some more insight, just to hear some else
See you soon,
Fabiana
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markowe
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Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: Re: Sorry it took so long |
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| Fabiana wrote: |
| Hello again. I appologise that it took so long to drop a note here. I just had forgoten all my data (no surprise knowing me) and it took for ever to find my way bask here. But here I am. |
Hi Fabiana - good to see you back, even if our Albania forum is still a little slow. I think it will pick up gradually. BTW, if you ever forget your details, just find the original email you were sent (though that may be difficult too, I admit!)
| Fabiana wrote: |
| I probably do not have the best "glasses" for this thread but do not forget, as I mnaried an Italian I was also experiencing his experience in Albania. It is amaizing how you see things that normally, with the local's eyes, do not notice. |
Yes, Italy seems to be the closest "western" country to Albania, in terms of communication generally, but I can imagine it is still quite an experience!
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Living in Albania, well, one has to deal with the electricity cuts, water shortage. It was so funny for my husband to read real estates announcements: "Nice house and nice location, water and electricity all day!!!".
It very often becomes a problem,.....it is a problem if you do not have a generator and a rather big tank on top of your roof. Hehh. |
Hey, are you sure we are not talking about Montenegro... Oh, no..! Well, this sounds like a very familiar story. In that respect we are very lucky in Serbia - at least in the cities there are no problems like that any more. However, there were periods in the 90's with hours and hours of blackouts every day.
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| But let's say also something nice about living in Albania. Do you know guys what is something I did not know was so grate until I moved to another country, like Ukraine? Fish, oh the fish. My mother lives right by the main market in Tirana and from her balcony I can see the fish market. Oh my God, I am telling you folks, you see things like that only in Italy or in Greece. Any kid of fish.....for a decent price. One can cook what ever you want with it. |
Yes, fish are expensive everywhere really. I think in this part of the world the market in general is something we can be very grateful for - fresh fruit and vegetables, all the year round, sold mostly directly by the farmers, and not wrapped in cellophane in the supermarket, having come through 3 different wholesalers. Now I just wish I went to the market a bit more often...
| Fabiana wrote: |
Well. have to come back another time, and hope some one else can give some more insight, just to hear some else
See you soon,
Fabiana |
Like I say, I hope things will pick up a little bit here as they have in the Serbia section. These things take time, but I think there are lots of foreigners living in Albania who would be keen to share their experiences.
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