In the early hours of the 26 November, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck one of the most populated parts of Albania- Durres County, and claimed the lives of 51 men, women, and children. Over 700 people were injured and as many as 4500 are homeless because their homes have been damaged, or they are too […]
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I awoke early, opened the curtains and surveyed the city sprawled out below me. One hundred shades of grey from the sky, to the concrete and the mass of tower blocks, houses, and apartments reflected back at me through the glass. A crisp autumn day of around 15 degrees, we wrapped up in our best […]
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A trip to Kosovo has long been on my agenda, after all one cannot call oneself the Balkanista and only have visited Albania and Macedonia so far. Autumn is perhaps my favourite season in this part of the world due to the abundance of rich colours that punctuate the landscape, combined with a faint smell […]
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I first visited Mrizi i Zanave when I was around six and a half months pregnant, during a small window of good health in between extended periods of bed rest. Since then, we have returned and vowed to go again and again. To me, it is like a paradise- clean country air, eagles circling overhead, […]
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