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22 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments ROcrypton $0.06
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 $0.25
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 $0.13
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 $0.11
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 final part of our journey. Having been told that we wouldn't be able to leave Skopje and that the border was closed beca...
14 Aug 2026 4 minute read 1 comment rah $0.07
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 2 comments rah $0.16
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 $0.11
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 $0.10
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 $0.11
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...
27 Jul 2026 4 minute read 0 comments rah $0.09
As many of you know I have been to some obscure and wonderful places and travelled along some pretty dangerous roads in my time. One of them even featured in first ever episode of The World's Most Dangerous Roads (Albania). I have travelled in West A...
