Showing posts with label Albania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albania. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Albania's last trains.

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  For the past 40 years, maybe even earlier if childhood stamp collecting is taken into account, I've been fascinated by the country of ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

An amazing Albanian propaganda film, circa 1984: "Where a free and happy people are living by the sweat of their brow."

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If you've never viewed an old-school "New Communist Man and Woman" heavy-industry-porn propaganda film, then prepare ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Christmas 2018: From Munich to New (and Old) Albania, with Vietnam Kitchen to follow.

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Chinesischer Turm in Englischer Garten, Munich. Give or take a few beers, we completed the 10,000 mile loop back to Louisville at 9:45 ...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

From 2015, "Fairytale of New Albania" ... including my favorite Christmas story.

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I fixed it. From December 24, 2015. Lightly edited and updated. --- ON THE AVENUES: Fairytale of New Albania (2015 mashup). I had ...
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Saturday, January 07, 2017

Mushrooms of Concrete, or the bunkers of Old Albania.

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Mushrooms of Concrete - FULL DOC Of course, New Albanian bunkers imply something else entirely. Courtesy of the International Documenta...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Old Albania, 1994: Beer in the Land of the Eagle (Part 3 of 3).

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Part 3 of 3. Back in the Brewing Business in Tirana. In contrast to the brewery at Korça, the plant dating from 1952 in Albania's...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Old Albania, 1994: Beer in the Land of the Eagle (Part 2 of 3).

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Part 2 of 3. One if by sea, 1985. My first glimpse of the obscure and mysterious Balkan nation called Albania came in 1985. I was loungi...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Old Albania, 1994: Beer in the Land of the Eagle (Part 1 of 3).

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Part 1 of 3. Preface. The only “corporate” day job I ever managed to hold for any length of time lasted from 1988 to 1989, with a solita...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

ON THE AVENUES: Fairytale of New Albania (2015 mashup).

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ON THE AVENUES: Fairytale of New Albania (2015 mashup). A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. I had intended to take the day off from ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

ON THE AVENUES: Fairytale of New Albania.

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ON THE AVENUES: Fairytale of New Albania. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Regular readers, you already know that I publish my ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

ON THE AVENUES: Two books about truth and housing.

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ON THE AVENUES:  Two books about truth and housing.   A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Among those who know me, it will surprise ...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Albania: Sent down to the Bush leagues.

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I’ve not visited “old” Albania since 1994, and yet before today it would have been difficult to persuade me that the impoverished ex-Communi...
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