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• Table talk

  Welcome!Mirëseerdhët!What do you recommend?Çfarë rekomandoni?I would like... do të preferoja... May I have a....

• Traditional dress

  Albania's rich and varied cultural heritage is perhaps best demonstrated by the incredible range of traditional clothing....

• Café talk

  May I have a...  - A mund të kem një...espresso - kafe ekspresturkish coffee - kafe ...

• Albanian cuisine today

  All that fat, all that sugar and all that drippy oil, once the stamp of 500 years of Ottoman gastronomic excess, if not decadence, had been purged from the cuisine along with other purges of Albania’s past, when the communist regime took over in 1945....

• The Bektashi sect

  Albania is often characterised in foreign media as a majority Muslim country, despite being rather secular in practise and also having significant numbers of Orthodox and Catholic believers....

• Driving & Surviving

  Driving in Albania could be the ride of the lifetime - though it could easily be your last ride too. Until 1990 it was only the elite that was allowed to use the total of 600 cars that were in Albania....

• Tirana In Your Pocket staff

  Tirana In Your PocketPublishers Gazmend Haxhia, Jeroen van Marle, ScoEditorial management: Rentapocket....

• Travel terms

  airplane - avjon ferry - tragetiairport - aeroport car - veture, makinëtrain - ...

• About TIYP / Lidhur me këtë udhëzues

  The Tirana In Your Pocket city guide is the only dedicated English-language guidebook to Albania‘s capital, and is part of a Europe-wide series of acclaimed city guides....

• Where to find Tirana In Your Pocket

  Full 52-page print copies of Tirana In Your Pocket (500 lek, €4) are available at the following places in Tirana....

• Menu decoder

  This should help you figure out what just slipped down your throat. Meat & Fish beef - biftek chicken ...

• Albanian adventure sports

  Apart from the lovely people, Albania's main attraction is the magnificent mountain scenery. Unfortunately, with bad information, roads and signposting and few travel agents organising trips into these wild places, it's not easy for foreign visitors to get the best out of the country....

• Southern Albania

  
  Most Western visitors to Albania travel for business, and unfortunately don't see more of Albania than the road from the airport, and Tirana's bllok area....