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23 Aug 2026 2 minute read 1 comment rah
I had an almost out of world experience last night which finished with an epiphany and today it is my intention to share it with you today. As part of my research I was sure that I would find an appropriate meme and that was where I decided to start....
22 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ROcrypton
This comic strip was born out of pain-yes, a necessary kind of pain, it's the kind a of pain many of us know, drive by our own needs and those of our families. Some of us have the freedom to choose where we go, while others have no choice but to tak...
18 Aug 2026 7 minute read 0 comments rah
The way I left things yesterday I had a plan. To summarise: - It was now Wednesday evening and I had only eight more days before I was due to fly from Rinas Airport, just outside the Albanian capital. I had expected a lift the previous Saturday or S...
17 Aug 2026 5 minute read 0 comments rah
So, to update you from yesterday's post and to provide a brief summary, of where we are at: Somebody was supposed to come and pick me up in a Land Rover from Klina in Kosovo on or around 6th October, so that I could return to Albania in plenty of ti...
15 Aug 2026 5 minute read 0 comments rah
After the night in the truly dreadful Brahm's Hotel in Skopje (read yesterday's post), the five of us were ready to embark on the finally part of our journey. Having been told that we wouldn't be able to leave Skopje and that the border was closed be...
14 Aug 2026 4 minute read 1 comment rah
Yesterday I shared about how, after leaving Albania, we had entered Macedonia on our way to Kosovo and arrived in Tetovo just about exactly when a Macedonian counter offensive began. I then described how we, that being George, two Americans (whose na...
13 Aug 2026 5 minute read 1 comment rah
Today I want us to go back to the Balkans in early 2001. I had arrived in Albania in the February and in the March I was due to go to Kosovo for a sustained period of time to look at some aid projects and do some preliminary work for some Summer Camp...
8 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments rah
On Thursday afternoon an incident took place that pleasantly surprised me even if the circumstances were not necessarily perfect. In fact it was precisely because the circumstances were not perfect that the whole thing happened in the first place. Ma...
2 Aug 2026 2 minute read 6 comments rah
With it being the weekend, it is short and sweet today and I have actually split it into two parts. When we survey the world around us, it doesn't take an expert to tell us that it is in a sorry state. This summer has seen relentless waves of heatwav...
1 Aug 2026 2 minute read 8 comments rah
Call me old-fashioned if you like, but the other day I was watching my local UK news on Catch Up and I came across a news item that raised a level of scorn in me that even surprised me. Please remember that I work as an Educator / Teacher / Coach, so...
