Tirana, Albania This is a kitchy picture, I know, but it’s here to say a couple of words of Albania’s history. Namely, there is hardly another nation in Europe who gets such unfair loads o… more →
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wrote 1 month ago: My life has changed dramatically since this time last year. A year ago, I was prepping for a trip to … more →
wrote 2 months ago: London Statue unveiling ceremony of Albania’s National Hero George Kastrioti Skanderbeg Hailed … more →
wrote 5 months ago: di Sunanda Girolami © Foto di Stefano Marzoli – Anziano vedovo mostra una fotografia che lo ritrae c … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Let me tell you a real fairy tale in a nutshell. Once upon a time, 100 years ago, there was a nation … more →
wrote 6 months ago: King Zog of Albania marries – er, what’s her name? The remains of King Zog I of Albania, … more →
wrote 9 months ago: | Thomas Hughes | 13 August 2012 | Mons, Belgium | I returned to Mons late Sunday evening after an e … more →
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wrote 11 months ago: Heroic Statue of Skanderbeg Skanderbeg (1405 – 1468) is the great national hero of Albania. He alli … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Opposition councillor says he will put government’s controversial bid to rename many streets in the … more →
wrote 1 year ago: 1. Jan Hus a fost ars pe rug pentru ideile sale anti-papale si este unul din numele mari de care se … more →
wrote 1 year ago: There is a big space at the centre of Tirane, much more than a square though that’s what it … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A lot of people ask me that. Forty odd years of mad-cap communist isolation threw a cloak over this … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A quite biased and anti-Islam, but somewhat useful overview on ‘How the Christian Albanians st … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Bear with us as we go back through ancient FencingClassics postings to bring them into a standard us … more →
wrote 4 years ago: From Rome, we hopped on a plane for a short flight to Albania. Though it isn’t on most travele … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Portrait of Skanderbeg in the Uffizi, Florence. Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 – 17 January … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Kruja is a town in the mountains about 45 minutes from Tirana. It is the home of the Skanderbeg Muse … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Prishtina, Kosovo Modern Kosovo with traditions. I toured Kosovo in summer 2007 to see how was this … more →