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A Nation of Shopkeepers

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.










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Anonymous said…
Greece is sort of like that but they are changing now since the big American style stores come here.

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.
ITS said…
Great Pictures! Keep them coming.

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