There is something nice about being in a city free of supermarkets, department stores and the high street chains. Tirana is a city of small shops. Every street seems to have a row of butchers, bakers and fishmongers. There are boutiques, shoe shops, mobile phone stores, toy stores and hardware stores. Then there are the corner stores, selling some fruit and veg, a few groceries, and some cleaning products together with those unexpected items that suggest something bought in cheap on a whim. Most of these stores are small; many are tiny - able to hold three or four people at most. Here is a small selection of the many, many shops on the streets of Tirana.
I was watching Top Channel last night, first the news, then Fiks Fare. According to them Tirana's citizens now have a choice not only between Rama and Olldashi, but also between Rama and Rama. A minor right-wing faction, Parti 'Balli Kombetar' , submitted papers to the election authorities registering their candidate, Akile Rama. The people on Fiks Fare got hold of the papers and sent a reporter and camera team to the address listed for Mr A Rama. After much ringing of the bell the gate was reluctantly opened by a middle-aged woman who refused to speak to the reporter and tried to close the gate on her. Back in the studio Saimiri and Doctori - the two presenters of Fiks Fare - revealed that Mr Akile Rama was 73 years old, in hospital, and did not know he was now a candidate for mayor. They also compared two documents - the papers submitted on his behalf, and a genuine document he had signed. The signatures were not even remotely similar. There was an interview with the lea...
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Also, I put another post to you in the WMD post for you. A qestion about Serbia vs Albania. Who was bad and who was good during war.