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Twenty years ago today, Ferbent’s cousin, Havzi Nela (a well known poet and dissident), was hung in the northern Albanian city of Kukes, for speaking out against the communist regime.
Even though communist leader Enver Hoxha was already dead and the communist regime was on it’s last legs, they hung Havzi Nela as a last ditched [...]

F headed to Albania yesterday, leaving me alone for the rest of the summer. He has to take care of some family business, plus he wants to spend some time with his mother, so he’ll be there for at least a month.
I could have gone with him but there’s just no way I can take [...]

I haven’t been to Albania since 2001 and while I don’t have any immediate plans to return, I am glad to see they are slowly making progress in improving and developing the country (if you ignore the massive corruption problem).
They have recently been promoting tourism in Albania with a serious of ads on CNN and [...]

For Ferbent. Only in Albania.

The second site I created for Ferbent is about Albanian news. F is forever on the internet reading the news. He loves to read about anything to do with Albania, whether in his own language or in English. So I figured he may as well make better use of this time by posting the most [...]

I’ve created a blog for Ferbent because he’s interested in writing about Albania (his country) and especially to show Albanian videos. Albania is a pretty crazy place with completely mad people so it will be interesting to see what kind of videos he comes up with.
He showed me a video the other day of a [...]

There was a nasty article in the UK’s Sunday Times last Sunday about Albania. Now I know Albania has some problems but this article was pretty vicious. What the author described was somewhat true, if you are looking for a negative side to everything. Maybe I’m the opposite and try to look at the positives [...]

The Albanian Eagle is a two headed eagle which is found on the Albanian flag. It is a popular symbol of Albania so I have included it on a number of t-shirts at my CafePress store. Most CafePress t-shirts are white but they recently introduced a black t-shirt. This is proving to be very popular, [...]

Admittedly I have been neglecting my Albanian Designs website lately. It’s not that I have lost interest, its just that I’ve been working on so many other things. I have been making a few sales so I figure it’s about time I get serious and add some real content to the pages. Without lots of [...]

Ferbent (my husband) decided to go to Albania for Christmas and New Year. He’s originally from Kosovo but has lots of family in Albania. In fact he has family in Greece, Italy, Belgium, Germany, UK, US, Albania, Kosovo, and France! His family is huge, especially compared to mine seeing I only have one brother and [...]