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  SHKODER CITY SONGS   The people of Shkoder have developed a special kind of music over the centuries that is quite different from anything else in Albania. They made more sophisticated music, with lyrical, romantic texts, a restrained tempo and oriental-sounding scales.   Until recently, the songwriters craftily used symbols and metaphors to get around certain taboos that existed at the time, making odes to flowers rather than addressing the woman they had their eyes se...

The Albanian center of Scutari is dominated from a citadel strengthened that it goes up again to the XV century, or rather the period in which the Republic in Venice dominated the city. Currently Scutari is a productive and commercial center of discreet importance of north-western Albania.  the city to the slopes of the fortress, is ugly, dirty and degraded. the lake is very beautiful and with good restaurants   

I travelled to the town Budva in Montenegro and Dubrovnik in Croatia.

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way

I'll finish the blog when I get back, but here are a few pictures in the meantime...

Tirana from the north is figgin nuts. I mean so busy it blew my mind right out the window. Kampala, Uganda and the most congested cities i saw in Mexico didn't seem to touch the chaos and business of the North of Albania entering and exiting the captial city. If Tirana is the heart of Albania, then Shkoder (pronounced shkodra) is the lifeline of the north. Everything goes through this busy bustling city in the north. We had little time here and i got no picks of it while we passed through on ...

I live in London, I love the city more and more though being unemployed is rough. Let's just make this a general trendy life stylish blog with a note about as many borough and neighbourhood that I will manage to set foot in. The blog won't follow a chronological order, so I will talk about the boroughs and then had my specific thoughts in between.

From Macedonia to Albania.