Your Albanian relative are Sunni Muslim, then?
During the 1970s I could pick up Radio Tirana on my shortwave when no
other European stations were accessible except those with repeaters in
the West Indies. The same lady announcer would read the news every
time, and she sounded like the grim
Not hardly.
My grandfather was Greek Orthodox. The government destroyed or re-tasked all
places of worship starting in the late 1940s, so I doubt that my relatives had
any religious affiliation.
As for my grandfather, the area where he is from was a real melting pot of
religions and cultures
This is something that every citizen should do when traveling to a potentially
sketchy foreign country.
In advance of your trip check the State Department web site for the contact
information of the local embassy or consulate. Upon arrival, call them,
identify yourself as a U.S. citizen, and
Let me suggest that you make copies of identification documents like
your passport and leave them with someone you trust back home so that,
if your passport should be lost or stolen etc., you can at the very
least get the copy faxed or emailed etc so that you have some evidence
of who you are.
Absolutely. I always carried copies of my passport, WHO immunization card and
driver's license in a number of different places with me when I traveled.
From personal experience I can tell you it's far easier getting a passport
replaced while in a foreign country if you have copies of the
@ 1 grandson (grad student in Paris) is on a summer job in Tirana, Albania;
'says most of the cars there seem to be MB's; lotsa 124's and newer; I'll ask
about 123's.
Wilton
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That's pretty interesting, as before they opened the borders to the outside
world they were lucky to have horse drawn carts.
My Dad's family is from Albania and I supposedly still have relatives there...
Dan
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On Jun 2, 2014, at 3:30 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
@ 1
. A pity that money could not have
gone to education, improving the economy, quality of life, etc.
Wilton
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From: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] MB's in Albania
That's
I understand a lot of them are stolen elsewhere and taken there and
sold, a fairly lawless place. The commie socialists embraced capitalism
very quickly.
--R
On 6/2/14 3:34 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
That's pretty interesting, as before they opened the borders to the outside
world they were
Yeah and lots of them were stolen from Greece.
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On Jun 2, 2014, at 3:30 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
@ 1 grandson (grad student in Paris) is on a summer job in Tirana, Albania;
'says most of the cars there seem to be MB's; lotsa 124's and newer; I'll ask
about
Rich Thomas wrote:
I understand a lot of them are stolen elsewhere and taken there and
sold, a fairly lawless place. The commie socialists embraced capitalism
very quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyH-351Z_-0
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Commie socialist capitalists?
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
I understand a lot of them are stolen elsewhere and taken there and sold,
a fairly lawless place. The commie socialists embraced capitalism very
quickly.
--R
On
Just like in Washington DC (and probably Ottawa too).
On 02/06/2014 4:12 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
Commie socialist capitalists?
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
I understand a lot of them are stolen elsewhere and taken there and
Yeah, just like in Russia and China and parts of Charleston pretty much,
but they have bypassed the problems with capital and working for it and
raising it and all that, they just cut right to the end state without
all that bother in-between. Probably a fairly efficient process as long
as the
Albania was probably the country who came the closest to pure socialism in its
day.
My grandfather would get letter from my cousins which inferred that we were all
rich beyond belief and the streets were paved with gold, so to speak. The
things they told the people about the West were really
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From: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] MB's in Albania
Albania was probably the country who came the closest to pure socialism in
its day.
My grandfather would get letter from my cousins which
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