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• Tirana In Your Pocket staff

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

• 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....

• Menu decoder

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

• Traditional dress

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

• Table talk

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

• Café talk

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

• Headstone

  The Commonwealth Military Cemetery in the park is marked by a large block of polished red granite. Look closely and you can just see three small holes above the second plaque....

• No smoking

  With one of the highest levels of smoking in Europe and cigarettes available on every street corner, many people were sceptical when the government announced a complete ban on smoking in public places from 26 May 2007....

• Expat activities

  New expat arrivals and any stray foreigners that find themselves wandering Tirana are welcome to mingle with Tirana's small but active group of expats....

• Travel terms

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

• Drink ujë, not aqua

  Order a bottle of mineral water with your meal, and chances are that you'll get sparkling water that was shipped all the way from France, Italy or further away – usually at a high price for both the environment and the diner's wallet....

• 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....