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Anonymous said…
hahah
The lady int he first picture is the "Mother Albania" statue from the cemetery of heroes. I don't know if you've been there.

On Mr. Elvis: I don't know if it refers to Presley or not. Many Albanian guys are called Elvis. Who knows maybe their parents were honoring Presley anyway.
Anonymous said…
Hey Our man in Tirana,
I'd love to be in Tirana for all these music events. What about these stupid bombs in our country?Why people still do silly things in that place?Maybe because they don't listen jazz...it would help them be more peacefull!!!!
See U!
Eni me N si nata
olli said…
Hi. Yes i recognised the statue from photographs but believe it or not i still haven't managed to get there even though i've driven past it many times. Definitely this summer though.
ak said…
Hi OMIT!
Did you do the checkup you talked about some posts ago. It took shorter than I thought for the anti-tobacco law to be forgotten. The worst part is to say: I knew it.
It was nice to hope for a very short time, though.
olli said…
Given some of the comments I decided to give it a week or two before checking.

But I have been in five restaurants / cafes this week and of those five only one still had ashtrays on the tables though nobody was smoking. One place had a large no smoking sign.

One waiter told me that he used to smoke 2.5 packs of cigarettes a day, but sine the ban he is down to 1 pack every two days.

Maybe if people smoke less and then realise they have a lot more money in hand it might help reinforce it as well.

Also, just from looking in the windows in passing it seems that the pattern I first described is still true.
GMG said…
I should have discovered this blog before getting to Tirana... But it was on October 2004, so the blog was not yet available. Anyhow, I've some pics of Albania posted under the same label on Blogtrotter.
olli said…
Thanks gmg. You beat me by a year. I only got here in October 2005. If you are ever back this way let me know.

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